As one of the units directly under the Department of Culture and Sports pioneering in creativity and innovation, over the past time, the Museum of Lao Cai province has become an attractive destination for the people, especially for all the student levels in Lao Cai city.
Over the time, in Van Ban district, the Tay people have still maintained and preserved the traditional professions of cotton growing, cloth weaving, and brocade weaving.
The Culture - Tourism Week of Bao Yen District in 2022 with the theme "Colors of cultural heritage" took place from April 22 to May 1 with many attractive cultural, artistic and tourist activities with typical local culture.
Bac Ha district (Lao Cai) - the place known as the "white plateau", in recent years has become an attractive cultural and ecological tourist destination for tourists from all over the world. Coming here, tourists can also admire the cultural features imbued with national identity, such as the Xoe dancing of the Tay ethnic group in Ta Chai.
Zu Do Do holiday is also known as Children's Festival of Ha Nhi people this year, it took place on the 9th day of the first lunar month, after the villagers held a ceremony for the village, to worship the forest and the water source at the beginning of the new year.
In the cold weather, very little of sunshine after rainy days it seemed to contribute to making the atmosphere of the New Year's ceremony of praying for good fortune of the people in Ta Phin commune (Sa Pa town) more sacred and convenient.
Each person chooses their own way on the road to spring travel, I personally chose to experience spring tea in the highland of Muong. The hostess, Nung ethnic group in Nam Lu commune (Muong Khuong district), her name is Vang Thi Xuan, led us to the garden to pick tea leaves. Her family's tea trees have been planted for more than 30 years with tender young buds picked in the rainy spring weather, in the sweet cold below 10 degrees Celsius, dried in a cast iron pan in the traditional manual style. The first batch of tea in the new year was fragrant and sweet.
Every year at the beginning of the year, the yard in front of the stilt house of Mrs. Luong Chi Chau's family, in Chieng 2 village, Vo Lao commune (Van Ban) becomes a familiar and favorite destination of many people in the region. While one group plays a quick game in the middle of the yard, not far away, another group plays a game of swiftlet; Nearby, mothers and grandmothers dance together. Laughing sounds mix with singing, music from the shock absorbers make the Tay village here become more bustling.
The scent of fresh flowers in my grandmother's garden in full bloom kept haunting and chasing me over the years, so that even now, on my destiny, I still can't help remembering that simple flower scent, especially in March.
The land of Lao Cai is the source of inspiration, creative material, and the land to nurture the souls of many famous writers. Currently, the "literary sky" of Lao Cai is lacking "stars" in next generations, which makes "seniors", including writer Doan Huu Nam, former Vice President of the Literature and Arts Association of the province, always concerns and worries. That is also the subject that reporter from Lao Cai Newspaper would discuss with "The King of Novels in the Northwest" in the early afternoon of March.
