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Special local products at the cultural market in the Autumn
Lao Cai entering autumn is not only filled with the bright yellow color of ripe rice, cool weather, majestic nature, but the unique local products at the markets also become one of the factors attracting tourists.
The market is considered a place where the cultural quintessence of ethnic minorities in the highlands converge.
The market is different from the usual market in that it is only open on fixed days.
There are markets open on Saturdays and Sundays every week, some markets open on Thursdays and Fridays.
Entering the market space in areas such as Bac Ha, Si Ma Cai, Muong Khuong, Y Ty, Muong Hum, visitors feel like they are immersed in a bustling space completely different from usual.
The beauty of the market in this season is the bustling crowd, the brilliant colors of brocade, the diversity of local products and unique cuisine.
Each market is a real, lively living space, where anyone who comes to the market feels close and friendly… as if they were right under the roof of the market in their familiar village or commune.
However, the common point of the highland markets is that the goods are mostly local agricultural products or agricultural tools made by the people themselves.
These products are the crystallization of the hard work and creativity of the people in the lands with many difficulties. The products sold at the highland markets are mainly local specialties such as:
Brocade
Brocade is a product that cannot be ignored, the most prominent of which is the brocade market where brocade items are sold, embroidered, hand-woven by the ethnic people here with their own skillful hands.
Coming here, visitors can choose to buy some small, beautiful, brightly colored dresses, scarves, bags, etc. hanging in the stalls as gifts for family and friends.
Local people
Not only brocade, traditional musical instruments such as trumpets, flutes, money sticks, panpipes, etc. are also sold by locals at the market.
Visitors can visit and admire the traditional musical instruments. Coming here on the weekend, it is not difficult to hear the gentle sounds of panpipes, flutes, and mouth harp that touch people’s hearts.
Herbs
In the central area of the market, in addition to the famous products that many people know, there are also many types of herbs such as: Dang quy, Cat canh, Sam cau, Dansam, Panax notoginseng, Aconite, Coix, Morinda officinalis, etc., which are sold by locals on tarps spread on the ground.
Among them, there are some types of herbs that are exploited in nature, but in small quantities.
Fresh vegetables, tubers, fruits, etc.
These are rows of vegetables of all kinds and products of the people from the mountains such as wood ear, dried bamboo shoots, fresh ginger, peanuts, spices and even newly dug bamboo shoots of the first season.
All are fresh, attractive and made by the hands of the highlanders, brought to the market.
In addition, they also sell a few hoes, knives, sickles, shovels, stoves… or men men, sticky rice, corn cakes, green rice,… or bring a few cows, horses, pigs, chickens, geese…
Those products are the crystallization of hard work, and are also typical products made by ethnic people.
The goods to bring are very simple and the way of selling is also rustic, not fussy – tarps spread out on the ground, in better places there are small huts made of bamboo.
Although simple, this is where all kinds of delicious and strange things from the mountains and forests are displayed.
Many tourists enjoy experiencing the colorful cultural space and buying fresh agricultural products with the rich flavor of the mountains and forests as gifts.
The market in Lao Cai is like a miniature society, visitors can learn about the life and many unique cultural features of the people here, interact comfortably with the locals, enjoy the specialties of this land.
If you come to Lao Cai in the autumn, walk in the market, you will feel the vitality around you, feel the golden autumn color magically creeping into the market.
Do Hoa
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