San Chay people

The San Chay people (Vietnamese: Người Sán Chay; also called Cao Lan) live in Tuyên Quang Province of the Northeast region of Vietnam, as well as some nearby provinces. They speak a form of Tai languages.[2] Their population was 201,398 in 2019.

Sán Chay
Total population
201,398[1] (2019)
Regions with significant populations
Vietnam : Tuyên Quang
Languages
San Chay • Vietnamese
Religion
Buddhism
Related ethnic groups
Zhuang, Buyei

Many live in remote areas, using slash-and-burn agriculture because those areas are not flat enough for paddy rice production.[3]

They sing sình cồ (love songs) and celebrate the Slếch thlin mảy festival (New Rice festival).

Literature

The San Chay have many sayings:

Rice is the most precious
Grain feeds human.
Literature is the secondly most precious
It teaches human knowledge for safe purpose.
gollark: Use Rust! Pretty fast AND safe/easy.
gollark: Your code will be done in half the time if you avoid meddling with C.
gollark: "Oh, did I forget to `free`? Huh, all my code is broken."
gollark: and Python lets you actually focus on the algorithms and not horrible C details.
gollark: Nobody cares if your compiler takes 1.2s instead of 1.1s.

References
  1. "Report on Results of the 2019 Census". General Statistics Office of Vietnam. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  2. Jean Michaud (19 April 2006). Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif. Scarecrow Press. pp. 257–. ISBN 978-0-8108-6503-7.
  3. Jean-Christophe Castella (2002). Doi Moi in the Mountains: Land Use Changes and Farmers' Livelihood Strategies in Bac Kan Province, Viet Nam. Int. Rice Res. Inst. pp. 11–. ISBN 978-971-22-0270-4.
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