Buffalo fighting festival

Buffalo fighting festival took place in Nghi Thai commune, Nghi Loc district. This is a typical festival held once a year with the meaning of honoring the strength of the buffalo - the closest friend of Vietnamese farmers, thereby giving farmers the opportunity to exchange and learn how to take care of the buffalo, how to choose a good buffalo, especially how to take care of a fighting buffalo. The festival attracts not only the people of Nghi Thai commune but also people of the surrounding areas such as: Nghi Trung, Nghi Thai, Nghi Duc, Nghi Kim, Nghi Phu and Hung Loc communes.

Buffalo fighting festival clearly shows the martial spirit, heroic mettle, imbued with the wet rice civilization of the ancient Vietnamese. No one knows when this festival appeared, but it has become a traditional cultural beauty in many localities throughout the country. In Nghi Thai commune, the "buffalo" have been in the arena since 2009, the number of "buffalo" participating has increased every year. By 2013, the festival was no longer held.

If in Do Son, the fighting buffalo is hunted by the people to the remote mountainous villages, even to Lao PDR and Cambodia, it takes weeks to choose the best one to bring home as well as as well as invest in care with the total cost until the buffalo comes to the arena of up to hundreds of millions. In Nghe An, the "playing" of buffalo is still primitive and simpler, the "boxing-buffalo" of the Nghi Thai arena are all selected from the barn, are still friends with the farmer and the plowman, the diet is only slightly better than that of a regular buffalo …

Trong những ngày diễn ra lễ hội, người dân đến xem và cổ vũ rất đông. During the festival days, people come to watch and cheer in large numbers. When the "buffalo" entered the arena, the entire audience started to cheer, clap, and comment excitedly. The fiery horns butts, the chases of the fighting buffalo in the passionate cheers of the crowd, had given Buffalo fighting festival a very unique character… 

It is known that Buffalo fighting festival in Nghi Thai is held in the form of maximum socialization. People come to see it for free, live in the festive atmosphere imbued with traditional culture, showing the martial spirit of the people in Nghe An province./.