Experience the unique highland market in the Capital during the holiday of April 30-May 1

On the occasion of the April 30 – May 1 holiday this year, the Vietnamese Ethnic Culture and Tourism Village (Dong Mo, Son Tay, Hanoi), organized events to celebrate the “United States Festival”. “with many rich and attractive activities, to introduce the colorful cultural space of the ethnic groups in the Northwest and Northeast to tourists.”

The highlight of the event is the highland market space “Colors of Cao Bang Non Nuoc Market,” giving visitors the opportunity to explore the unique cultural features of a highland market right in the capital Hanoi. .

The market is a combination of a festival space, an entertainment space associated with folk songs, folk dances, folk games, a culinary space, and colorful products of the Lo ethnic people. Lo, Mong, Tay, Nung, Dao in Cao Bang.

The center of the highland market is product stalls with many typical items such as brocade, ethnic musical instruments, wine, highland vegetables and fruits, and spices from the mountains and forests.

Visitors will be immersed in the space of buying and selling with ethnic people in the market; Enjoy highland specialties prepared at the market such as thang co, corn wine, colored sticky rice, grilled chicken, pork, bamboo-tube rice, grilled fish… full of attractions.

The market space is even more bustling with interactive performances by cultural subjects such as performing Mong Khen art; Introducing the National Intangible Cultural Heritage of Phia Thap incense making and beeswax printing of the Nung and Dao ethnic groups and many other traditional crafts.

At the market, Mong boys will demonstrate to tourists the unique art of the flute of their people.

The Mong people’s trumpet is considered a sacred musical instrument connecting the earthly world and the spiritual world and is also a means of connecting the community, sharing feelings and emotions, helping cultural subjects sublimate with a spirit of optimism and love. life.

The special thing is that performing Khen is the privilege of Mong men. The flute performer plays the flute while dancing with extremely lively transformations through many difficult movements such as somersaults, handstands, etc.

In another space, visitors will learn about the craft of making Phia Thap incense of the Nung ethnic people in Cao Bang – a type of incense famous for its spicy, strong scent due to the ingredients from the leaves of the agarwood tree.

The characteristic of Phia Thap incense is the glue used to stick the agarwood powder to the incense body made from dried acacia leaves. This type of leaf is unique and can only be grown in the Phia Thap incense making village in Cao Bang.

Phia Thap incense is made from natural ingredients from the mountains and forests such as apricot trees, gourd trees, rice bark, red pine bark, and sawdust.

With a tradition of hundreds of years, Phia Thap incense making has been recognized as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage. Since 2016, Phia Thap has been invested in community tourism. The profession of making incense has become a highlight attracting domestic and foreign tourists to experience and shop.

The market also introduced another National Intangible Cultural Heritage, the traditional craft of printing beeswax patterns on fabric of Dao Tien women in Cao Bang.

The art of decorating patterns on traditional costumes of the Dao Tien people is a rich and unique treasure trove of visual arts and folk decorations, containing information about economics, society, and ethnic philosophy. , helps identify the history of the Dao Tien community in traditional society from many different angles.

In addition, on the morning of April 30, visitors will enjoy the rituals of the Rain Praying Festival – one of the important and sacred rituals of the Lo Lo ethnic people of Cao Bang province.

In the third lunar month of every year, the Lo Lo people will hold a ceremony to pray for rain in a closely protected sacred forest. People often offer 1 buffalo, 1 dog and 3 chickens, praying for good weather, good harvests, and prosperity for the villagers./.