The custom of welcoming the New Year of the Mong people also has many unique features, including the custom on the first day of the New Year, when the first rooster crows, it is also the time when the men get up first in the house to do the important things in the family. According […]
Continue readingEvery year, when come spring and Tet holiday, if you go on excursion tour to highlands and Northern mountainous provinces, you will be glad to see blooming peach trees and plum and to discover the mysteries in the Mong minority’s customs and habits, to welcome New Year that is usually celebrated in early January in […]
Continue reading“Sapa Love Market” was organised by Lao Cai Tourist Information and Promotion Center at the end of 2020 to honor the unique traditional cultural values of ethnic minorities of Sapa in particular and of Lao Cai province in general. In 2021, “Sapa Love Market” will be held in the end of the year No. 02 […]
Continue reading” Kidnaping a wife” in some places is also known as robbing a wife, in the Mong language called “hai pù”. “Kidnaping a wife ” literally means pulling a girl back home as a wife. Mong boys and girls often meet and interact with each other during festivals, Tet holidays and especially “love market” sessions. […]
Continue readingLike many other ethnic minorities in Lao Cai, Ha Nhi people in Y Ty (Bat Xat) have a harvest festival in the 6th of lunar month every year, which is the Kho Gia Gia Festival. The Kho Gia Gia Festival is an important spiritual ritual indispensable in the spiritual life of Ha Nhi people. This […]
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