ROTATION IN WORKING - AN EXOTIC CULTURE IN MEKONG DELTA REGION
How is rotation working works?
Rotation working is a form of alternating work, helping each other back and forth between households in the Mekong Delta. For example, this month I build a house, relatives and neighbors will come to help. Young men will cut trees, erect poles, roof leaves, etc. As for mothers, aunts, or daughters, they take care of the kitchen and water for the men. Not only is it a "step by step" but people also share with each other every bit from the tree with the walls to the sheet of leaves for the roof. In the middle of work, but lack of trees without leaves, there will be people who are ready to run home to cut down to bring over donations.
People come to help each other, then in the afternoon, after finishing work together, they go back and drink a few glasses of wine with a torn garden chicken mixed with salad or a snakehead fish cooked with porridge, etc., no one has ever taken anyone's money. Then next month, next year, or when there is a family in the neighborhood that repairs or builds a house, I will come and help again. Take turns, now one person works for the other, then tomorrow the other person works for this person.
The meaning of rotation working in the life of people in the Mekong Delta.
People consider rotation working as the beautiful way inherent in every person in the Mekong Delta. Like the way a house grills a chicken and divides it equally for the whole neighborhood to eat. Like the way a grandmother or mother divides each portion of the cake on the anniversary of the death anniversary to send to each guest before they leave. But now it's different, occasions such as home repair, house construction, weddings, anniversaries, etc., all have decent service packages. In addition, in today's life, family members all have their own jobs such as children go to school, older people go to work in companies, factories or in other provinces, so it is difficult to gather as long as they used to. old.
Today, the form of rotation working in the Mekong Delta no longer appears as much as before. But in the memory of people in the Mekong Delta, these are still beautiful and unforgettable memories. The love of each other's village to show full and full of affection through the form of meritorious deeds.