Ga Tho Tho is the traditional New Year of the Black Ha Nhi in the highlands of Bat Xat district, usually held in the November of the lunar calendar every year. This year, because it is a leap year, the Ha Nhi people celebrate Ga Tho Tho Tet earlier, from 22-25 November 2020 (ie October 8-10 of the lunar calendar).
For 3 years now, people in Nam Dang village, Nam Dang commune (Van Ban) can no longer hear the sound of Dao students reading from the wooden house. Because, "teacher" Trieu Nguyen Minh (Trieu Ong Nhat) was rare in the past, with blurred eyes and slow legs, although he was still enthusiastic, he made an appointment with students who aspired to learn Nom Dao.
The mind of the Dao is projected in most cultural activities, through the forms of intangible performance combined with rich tangible heritages, in which masks are an important representation in the spiritual life of the Dao people in Lao Cai.
In the middle of August, the autumn sky was clear and blue, along a long slope, after two hours of walking, we went up the mountain to visit the green Mong village - a very few people, only less than 1,000 people. This is the only ethnic group found only in Tu Thuong village, Nam Xe commune (Van Ban district, Lao Cai province). Looking down from above the mountain, the terraced fields have begun to turn green to yellow. An entire valley, with an upturned bowl-shaped hill, a rotating terraced field, looked like a giant rice tray, round and round, signaling a prosperous season. Next to the rock at the beginning of the village, the women sit in the sun, peacefully in the middle of the sky to collect the light breeze, peacefully spinning and splicing to weave fabrics ...
Despite many changes in life, Xa Pho women in Nam Ria 1 village, Hop Thanh commune, Lao Cai city still try to preserve and preserve the unique culture of their people, including traditional costumes. system.
Cultural heritage is an invaluable asset, the product of crystallization of the values of labor and creativity left by his father. Identifying culture as the social spiritual foundation, the goal and driving force to promote socio-economic development, in recent years, Lao Cai city has had many solutions to preserve and promote special cultural assets, considering this as a key task associated with socio-economic development.
As a famous tourist destination, Sa Pa district has a strange attraction to domestic and international tourists because of its rustic, simple but very special feature in the cultural life of the ethnic community here.
Van Ban district currently has 3 intangible cultural heritages that have been included in the list of national intangible cultural heritages, including: Tay ethnic descending festival; ceremony to pray to the village of "Áy lay" of the Dao people; Throughout the Nôm the Tay ethnic group. Along with the Tày people's tug of ritual and folk games, recently the Then Tay ritual has also been recognized by UNESCO as an intangible cultural heritage representing humanity. Both of these two heritages exist in the life of the Tay Van Ban people.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has just issued a decision to recognize 23 national intangible cultural heritages in 2020, of which Lao Cai province has 6 more national intangible cultural heritages.
In "The Literature Tieu Luc" by Le Quy Don wrote: "... in the Ngoc Uyen area (ie Trung Do, Bao Nhai and the surrounding area now), Vu Van Mat built the citadel and built up a rampart against the Mac Dynasty for 20 years ..."; After that, General Hoang Van Thung continued his career. Also in this area, people discovered a bronze cannon in the space of Trung Do ancient fortress that remains to this day.
