In the past, the Ta Oi living on the Truong Son mountain range (A Luoi district, Thua Thien-Hue province) often celebrated their own New Year according to their calendar. They ate Tet right after the rice crop, around December, when the Ra Du rice was full of lovers.
In recent years, the traditional Tet of the Ta Oi community has "contributed rice to blow rice" with the traditional Tet of the Kinh people. "Eating Acha Aza Tet is only fun among Ta Oi people, and when Tet is shared with Kinh brothers, the happiness is even greater" - Quynh Hoang village elder (A Ngo commune) said.

However, the Ta Oi still retain the characteristics of their nation's New Year. The traditional Tet Acha Aza of the Ta Oi is the new rice-eating festival. This is the most important festival because the goddess of Lua is the mother of Lua, helping the villagers to have a meal, which is also supported by the god through harvest. According to the Tà Oi concept, Lua is a goddess, so the woman in the family is the host, usually it's a reputable elder woman with the village.
For the Kinh, the sign of spring comes when the peach blossom blooms and the swallow flies back. For the Ta Oi people, “when the pricoh bird calls, the orchid orchid blooming is the most important sign.

New Year Tet usually takes place in the first three days of the new year. In the days approaching Tet, the husband gives gifts to the wife. The offerings include: a crazy (four-legged platter) glutinous rice, five tubes of blue rice, five tubes of meat, dried meat, five tubes of fish, five pieces of dried fish, a bowl of rice plugged in a string of small fish, some potatoes from or purple potato, peanuts, litchi beans, a sugarcane leaves, a cup of cul (seed agarwood) to steam for aromatic. Before the Lua call ceremony, people often climb the stairs ready to the ceiling, the tray is placed under that ladder. "To do so is to let the god follow the ladder to the ceiling, stay with the rice, keep the rice for yourself" - the village elder Quynh At explained.

When the worshiping ceremony starts, the female head of the family will pray continuously, while the male will take a cloth (brocade fabric) and give it to the ceremony owner as a deposit for the goddess of Rice. The owner of the ceremony took the zèng flute many times to the ceiling to calm the spirit of Lua. On the same day, the Acha Aza ceremony was continued by making offerings in the fields to pray for the gods to continue the bumper harvest. Homeowners with upland fields usually hang 3-5 rows of rice with many sheaves that are tight and big enough.

The culmination of the fire is almost at the end of the family worshiping ceremony. The whole family gathers around the tray to worship and celebrate the first meal of the new year with strong family affection.

Tet holiday at the same time as the Kinh but the Ta Oi rarely use jam, melon seeds, confectionery ... Despite being rich or poor, the family must still have sticky rice cakes such as a yelling, adeep man, pancake and rice dishes. lam. Beverages with sugar cane wine, sparkling wine, red wine. In particular, two dishes emerged: wild meat from animals such as mud, mouse, porcupine, chicken, wild boar ... hunted by men and spring crab caught by young women.

As a rule, a few days before Tet, the boys often go to the old forests to hunt wild animals. They only go near to avoid risks and grief for the village on the first day of the year. The traditional way of traps is to use crossbows, set traps to hunt small animals, and avoid catching large animals by Ta Oi people, who believe that catching big animals in Yang is also unhappy.
After being hunted, the wild animals are cleaned and then left on the stove in small strings or as meat pipes. Mice meat after cleaning, marinating spices such as salt, chilli, forest pepper with some chopped vegetables such as cassava, monarch, corn, vegetables ... mixed together, then compacted into. bamboo tubes and neohouzeaua tube and then bake. After baking, the meat tubes are placed neatly in baskets to eat during Tet.

The Ta Oi girls go and catch rock crabs in streams near their houses, in the rock niches. The caught crabs are cleaned, then the shell is split into two parts. After scraping off all the individual meat, they stuffed some peanuts and basil in and then covered the cover, tied tightly with a small string. All were put in a small basket, on the kitchen truss for one night. The next day, they took down to grill or make a snack with wine, and crab meat is cooked with sticky rice.

 The Ta Oi people also "Tet 1, cha lun 3 Tet teacher" as Kinh. The first day is full of spiritual imprints dedicated to the gods and ancestors. The second day, the whole community lived together. Young men and women have fun on the third day.

With the wish of a good harvest and good rain, the children of Yàng often spend the first day of the New Year towards the gods. They prayed and knelt to bring the luck into the house. Rice New Year Festival is just held on the occasion of the rice season, fun. In any crop year, the Ta Oi will worship Yang with a sacrificial animal with the sacrifice of buffalo sacrifice on Tet. “On this day, the clan and family worship the Ash god (Rice god). In the long house, from 10 to 20 families will contribute a worshiping ceremony including a crazy sticky rice, a boiled chicken, a bowl of ki cul, a bowl of rice ”.

With these offerings, their master lit the culms, stormed and prayed. What they prayed for was mainly toward the new rice crop, the gods helped the family and the ethnic family to harvest the new crop season, praying for favorable rain and wind. They prayed for the villagers not to get sick, the animals would not die ... The burning and clearing of fields and fields in the new year were as fast as the wind blowing, the wild animals did not come back to disturb.

On the second day, the villagers bustled to the empty house in the middle of the village to see the community worshiping ceremony. At night, everyone gathered to listen to the elderly saying the fortune telling and advice, advising their children and grandchildren to be filial and hospitable to their parents and grandparents, and thank their parents for bringing up the elders. After that, everyone watched the young dancing aza, za za, cha cha ...

On the third day of Acha Aza, young people in the village can have fun. The sound of the friends singing bustles, the sound of gongs and harmony singing. Many lovebirds also get married on the 3rd of the New Year. This is also the time to organize folk games such as crossbow shooting, javelin shooting, heel kick, tug of war, swing beam ...

“The traditional Tet holiday atmosphere of the Ta Oi people is always lively and full of identity. Tet Acha Aza has made the culture of the six ethnic groups of Pa Koh, Ta Oi, Pa Hi, Van Kieu, Co Tu and Kinh living on the Truong Son mountain. It can be said that there is no Tet like the one in A Luoi when the six identities of the six ethnic groups blend together to create the common, but each ethnic group has its own characteristics ”.