Life style : Be under interdiction

Be under interdiction in wickedness day.  The Mien call this day ging. This day comes from the beliefs of the ancestors and is passed down from generation to generation. Mien people will be under interdiction from the Mien New Year ( that being the same as the chinese calendar). The first day of the new year starts in january or february in the Thai calendar and on this day Mien people stop working the field, do not kill any animals and do not hang clothes out. They believe that if they do not strictly follow the "no work" rules during this time bad things will happen to the village and the person who does not obey. Each village follows the chinese calendar and therefore each follows interdiction on the same day.
The tiger sleep wickedness day ( Ging Da maw Puay). On this day the people must let the tiger sleep. They cannot make much noise or disturb the tiger because they believe that bad things will happen to the village. The people in the village will ask for help from the ancestor spirits to protect the tiger and not to make trouble for the people in the village.

	The tiger walk wickedness day (Ging Da Maw Yang Jaw). This day is after tiger sleep    day. This day the people ask their god to inspire the tiger away from the village. The knife wickedness day (ging Hyu). On this day the people stop to working in the field to protect them from knife and axe. The storm wickedness day (Ging Jyaw).On this day the people in the village are under interdiction so the storm does not damage their lives and properties.  The bird wickedness (Ging Hnor). On this day the people are under interdiction to protect their plants from the birds that come to damage them. The rat wickedness day (Ging Hnaw). On this day the people in the village are under interdiction to protect the plants in the field from th rat. The snake wickedness day (Ging Nang) this day the people in the village are under interdictions to protect the snake come to the house and ban a snake go to the forest when the people go there. The caterpillar wickedness day (Ging Gang PAye) this day the people in the village are under interdiction to protect the caterpillar come to the house or interfere.
8. The Sky wickedness day (ging Ba Ong) this day the people believe that is the god birth day. Mien people do not go to work in the field or pestle rice.      9. Flood water wickedness day (Ging Hlow) this day the people are under the interdiction to protect their life, properties and vegetables from the flood.      10. The Chinese New Year wickedness day (Ging Cheng Meng) this day the people in the village will offering food to ancestors’ spirits.      11. The Chun Pun wickedness day. This day the people in the village greet the new season and the rainy fallow the season that make the agriculture completely.        12. Liew Gha wickedness day. This day is the season change from the Chinese style. Some village the people believe that a man can not sleep in the day time because they believe that their heart terrified to live in the country that have only woman.      13. The Pua Chun wickedness day. This day is the people in the village will give offering food to ancestor’s spirit and other spirit in the village to protect them from the bad things and drive out the animal interfere their agricultures.       14. The Leab Chiaw wickedness day (Ging Lieb Chiaw). This day the people in the village will give offering food to the mountain, forest to ask them to protect their agricultures.      15. The ear of rice (Ging Gu Dong Jyud). This day the people in the village are under interdiction for the rice has an ear.      16. The Jeab Huem wickedness day. This day the people are under interdiction for the spirits to go to travel.      17. The Mien Poi Bua wickedness day. This day the people in the village take a tree star god come to dry in the sun. mien said “this is open one’s eyes  ears”
The Jea Chun Yang wickedness day, this day is the day for season change to winter. Some village call this ceremony is ban the rain to make a problem with the agricultural. In writing, Mien people will light the joss sticks in front of the door’s house and in that day the people in the village wear the Mien traditions clothes or hang in front of the house because they believe that the ancestor spirit will protect their lineages http://mien.hilltribe.org/english/