Then Khoi (then Cau Tho) is a rather special form of key-making, because the person who can do the key must be people over 50 years old, and the Tay people call it the old. Recently, the Tày people's key ritual in Van Ban has been recognized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as a national intangible cultural heritage.
On November 21, in Bac Ha town, Food Competition and Khèn Mong Competition took place. These are activities located in the Northeast Ha Winter Festival 2020.
In addition to its spiritual value, the intangible cultural heritage also has great economic benefits. In order to turn cultural heritages into assets, create livelihoods, and increase income for people, it is very important to link heritages with community life.
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.
