วันเสาร์ที่ 15 ตุลาคม พ.ศ. 2554

Life style : Occupations


       The Lahu people usually farm to sustain themselves. The produce that remains from their farm will be used to exchange with people in other villages. They also borrow certain things from others which will then be returned in the next year. The people in the village do not bring their excess produce to sell in town. The main occupation for the Lahu people is farming and searching for herbs and natural products in the forest.


Agriculture      Farming and agriculture is the main occupation of the Lahu people as their villages are usually built near fertile land. People in the village will farm different things every year. For instance, one year they will plant corn and another year they will plant other vegetables. Most plant to feed themselves. If a villager grows mainly rice, they will also plant other vegetables.
      When a villager chooses an area to farm, they will clear it by burning the land to make the soil fertile. They will then start planning in the rainy season. For rice, once it is grown fully, the villager will take the harvest and pound out the rice for storage in their barn.
The way to choose the area for farming 
      To determine the success of the year's crop, the Lahu people will dig a hole and pray by it, then leave it for a day. If they come back and the hole is full of soil, it is a good sign that their crops will be plentiful.
The way to mark the area
      If who would like to be the landlord will push the stick on the land and other reason is take respect to the spirit who live in the area. In the area if has a mole rat dig a hole means useless, the owner will have a live shortly


Working on the land      In the past, the Lahu people will help their relatives and family members in the village plant their own crops. The people in the village will guard the crops against wild animals which come to eat the crops or make trouble in the fields. Usually, the crops are very far from where the village is which makes the daily journey to and from the land almost impossible. They solve this problem by building small huts by the crops so they can stay overnight near the land

Domestic Animals     The Lahu keep dogs to help them when hunting wild animals in the forest. Pigs and chickens are also necessary because they are used in religious ceremonies. Cows and buffalos are also kept to help work in the fields and also as a source of food.


Hunting      The Lahu people they call them self “a hunter” because have a story about this, the man who cast a spell on the thing to be smallness. One day the man goes to hunting animal, he gets a deer but do not have enough space to put it. He shoots a squirrel, peel the skin and say a magic to the squirrel to be smallness and put the deer in. He told the assistance to bring deer meat to the village but the assistance does no trust that a deer meat inside the squirrel, he takes the deer out then he see the deer meat but he can not to put in. The fearless cast a spell again. When they arrive the village, they share the deer meat to other people in the village because they believe that they are a union.



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