Space helps youngsters get closer to ethnic cultures

Located in Ba Vi district, Hanoi, the Vietnam Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism is a venue for visitors, especially youngsters to get an insight into traditional values of 54 local ethnic groups.

Visitors make a call at Tay ethnic cultural space at the village (Photo: VNA)

A Tay woman introduces visitors her ethnic’s traditional culture (Photo: VNA)

Tay people’s altar is placed in the middle of the house (Photo: VNA)

A cotton spinning tool of Tay women (Photo: VNA)

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A gourd is hung on Tay people’s kitchen. Its seeds are taken for cultivation and its shells for making ‘dan tinh’, an inseparable musical instrument of Then singing (Photo: VNA)

Gourds’ shells are polished to make ‘dan tinh’ (Photo: VNA)

Tay ethnic artists perform Then singing (Photo: VNA)

Youngsters get an insight into ‘dan tinh’ (Photo: VNA)

A Tay woman in traditional costume (Photo: VNA)

Xo Dang ethnic artisan introduces visitors ‘To-rung’, a folklore musical instrument (Photo: VNA)

Xo Dang artisan performs Klongput, another musical instrument together with To-rung and drum often played at traditional festivals of Xo Dang people (Photo: VNA)

Artisan Y Sinh instructs a youngster to play Klongput (Photo: VNA)

Youngsters try to play Xo Dang people’s traditional music instruments (Photo: VNA)

Tourists visit Khmer people’s cultural space at the village (Photo: VNA)

A royal performance of Khmer people (Photo: VNA)

Visitors participate in a folklore dance of Khmer people (Photo: VNA)

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