Saturday, October 15, 2011

Lifestyle : Culture land

      The word “Akha” means people from afar. The name aptly explains this community that live in hills far from civilization.

      The Akha are fun-loving, enjoying dance and song even as they travel to and from their farms. The Akha like to blow sideways through a plucked leaf to produce sweet-sounding music and it is common for young Akha men and women to sing while planting crops in the valley. Akha couples part with song when the sun sets before retreating home also.
      Every night, Akha teenagers gather at the community grounds or “Dae-Khong” or “Ga-Ba” and often linger until the following morning. This is where teenagers, housewives, elderly and children gather at the end of every day, often in traditional dress.
      It is here that Akha culture is passed from one generation to the next as elder Akha members spend the most time with Akha youth here. Further, these gatherings provide the only opportunity for Akha teenagers to meet each other since male and female teenagers work separately during the day.
      The civilization of city and the expansion serves the electricity from the big community reaches to Akha communities that still have take respect the original. This issue will may not directly but consider carefully, it will be the importance on other hand that make Akha grounds culture abandoned people fungus has in during nighttime that everybody gets back from the field, become the period time that don't be lonely again because there is the television programmed, many interesting list, to follow and give the data, the information in time that worldly progress more than standing besieges to a circle, sing the song that never end and it like as have the a lot of detail, exceedingly tradition. The grounds culture (Dae-Khong ) in today vanish from the memory of the young generation. The Akha village during nighttime do not be lonely because the song of Loso (the famous band) resound throughout both of the valley and that be the way has that us has chosen already?

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