BHG - Visitors to Lung Cu Commune, Dong Van District during the New Year celebrations, will be attracted by the vibrant pink colour of cherry blossom trees against the cold weather.
BHG - The Meo Vac Market is held every Sunday morning and is considered the largest in the Dong Van Stone Plateau. Not counting the small traders who specialise in “running the market”, the end of the year is often when people from all over come to sell. Items regularly made by locals and brought to the market to sell, such as goats, piglets, vegetables, dried bamboo shoots, fresh ginger, rice, dong leaves or fragrant corn wine cans, are also sold more than usual.
BHG - Every year, as dawn breaks on the first day of the new year, the Tay people in Tha Village, Phuong Do Commune (Ha Giang City) will go to the village well to wash their faces and get water as a ritual to pray for blessings and peace.
BHG - On the morning of December 31, the Dong Tam resettlement area in Yen Lap Village, Yen Thanh Commune, Quang Binh District, was officially inaugurated, marking a joyful and celebratory atmosphere among the local residents.
BHG - Ha Giang, a province where 19 ethnic groups have coexisted for generations, possesses many unique cultural characteristics. Among these are rituals that demonstrate extraordinary human abilities and carry mystical and inexplicable elements. One such phenomenon is the ability to lick red-hot ploughshares heated to hundreds of degrees Celsius, as demonstrated by a Co Lao artisan from Phin Su Village, Tung San Commune, Hoang Su Phi District.
BHG - These days, the working atmosphere is bustling across construction sites and projects using public investment in Bac Quang District. There, whether sunny or rainy, day or night, the sound of excavators and drilling machines matches with the bustling voices and laughter of workers who are trying their best to complete their work, creating a vibrant symphony.
BHG - When the spring and Tet (Lunar New Year) comes, alongside green ‘banh chung’ (square glutinous rice cake)) and red calligraphy scrolls, fragrant incense sticks are an indispensable part of family altars. Hidden within the warm and aromatic scent of incense is not only the filial piety and gratitude of descendants toward their ancestors but also unique stories about the cultural traditions of the nation.
BHG - Stone moss is a rare type of moss that grows on the rocky ledges at the upper reaches of streams. It is a special gift from the clear waters of streams that has been closely associated with the lives of the Tay ethnic people in the communes of Xuan Giang and Bang Lang (Quang Bình District) for generations.
BHG - The everyday life of the Pa Then ethnic minority people was vividly recreated at the Pa Then Cultural Space event at Square 1.5 in Yen Binh Town, Quang Binh District.
BHG - Then Pa Village, a small village at the foot of Lung Cu Flag Tower in Ha Giang, has become a bright spot in community tourism development thanks to the preservation and promotion of the unique culture of the Mong people.
BHG - Located about 4km from the centre of Meo Vac District, Ha Giang Province and about 160km from the centre of Ha Giang City, Pa Vi Ha Village, a community cultural tourism village is located on the Happiness Road connecting Meo Vac and Dong Van districts. This place concentrates on many cultural features typical of the Mong people in the highlands of Ha Giang. With majestic and charming natural landscapes, especially the people's hospitality, the village always attracts many domestic and foreign tourists when visiting the Meo Vac rocky mountains.
BHG - About 10 km from Ha Giang City, the villages of Na Thac, Khui My, and Lung Vai (Phuong Do Commune, Ha GiangCity) are once again experiencing the harvest season, as the terraced rice fields in these mountainous villages begin to ripen. This attracts a large number of tourists and photographers from both within and outside the province to explore and experience the beauty of the landscape.
Under the shadow of cherry blossom trees
