BRU - VAN KIEU

WINNING CONDITIONS

In addition to owning 1 Golden Star badge (earned by winning in the Challenge round), the player must successfully move (place a colored token) to all the following areas by correctly answering questions on question cards related to the corresponding provinces/cities:

• Quang Binh and Quang Tri provinces

• 1 province/city in the North Central Coast and Central Highlands region with a level 3 group space

• 1 province/city in the North Central Coast region with a level 4 group space

• 1 province/city in the Northern midland and mountainous region, Central Highlands, or Mekong Delta with a level 5 group space

  
  

SPECIAL PRIVILEGES

If the player lands on a province/city that belongs to the ethnic group area they represent, they receive a special privilege (can only be claimed ONCE per game):

• Confiscate 2 province/city tokens from any other player on the board and return them to the bank, OR

• Convert 1 province/city token belonging to another player into their own token.

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ETHNIC GROUP INFORMATION

Origin: Indigenous inhabitants who have lived for a long time in the Central Indochina region. After historical upheavals, they migrated and resettled in various localities.

Traditional social structure:

• Vil (Village): A community settlement.

• Xuất vil (Village Chief): The head of the village.

• Council of village elders: Includes xuất mu, xuất tape.

• Chủ xứ (Kruông): Founder and leader of the territory.

• Collective ownership: Land and natural resources are collectively owned.

  
  

Religion and beliefs: Ancestor worship including rice deity, kitchen god, mountain god, earth god, river god. Animistic worldview: The rice deity is revered, prayers are made for favorable weather and bountiful harvests.

Musical instruments: Bronze gongs, bells, Achung lute, Plư, Ta-lư, Amam horn, Ta-ral.

Marriage: After the wedding, the bride moves to live at the husband’s home.

Lễ Khơi: The second wedding ceremony held when economic conditions are sufficient.

Festivals and ceremonies: Includes rites for swidden rice cultivation — praying for a good crop, clearing, planting, and harvesting — as well as personal rites for birth, illness, death, and marriage.

Traditional clothing:

• Men: Wear loincloths and headscarves.

• Women: Sleeveless tops, wrap skirts, hair tied in a bun.

  
  

Cuisine: Daily meals mainly steamed rice, sticky rice cooked in bamboo tubes during festivals. Eating with hands, drinking plain water and communal rice wine. Smoking with clay pipes or bamboo stems.

Housing: Small stilt houses with 3–4 rooms, divided into pum (outer part) and poong (inner part for worship).

Culture & Heritage:

(Lễ hội Đập trống của người Ma Coong)

(Lễ hội Trỉa lúa của người Bru - Vân Kiều)