In recent years, the Tay ethnic community in Lam Thuong commune, northern Lao Cai province, has been preserving and promoting their cultural values to develop tourism, following the principle: “Using culture to develop tourism, and tourism to preserve and promote culture.”
Located in northern Vietnam, Cao Bang province has preserved many of the unique traditional cultural values of local ethnic communities. Among them, the Nang Hai Festival in Tien Thanh commune, Phuc Hoa district, stands out, as it embodies the distinctive cultural characteristics of the Tay people.
The Tay ethnic group in the northern mountainous region of Vietnam in general and the Tay ethnic community in Giao Hieu commune, Pac Nam district, Bac Kan province in particular still retain many lullabies with unique melody and lyrics, which help reflect the rich cultural and spiritual life of the people.
Vietnam is home to 54 ethnic groups, each of which has its own unique cultural identity. At the Culture and Tourism Village for Vietnamese Ethnic Groups, ethnic minority people join State agencies and experts in preserving and introducing their communities’ cultural values to visitors.
The sixth national festival of the art of Then singing and Tinh gourd lute of the Tay, Nung and Thai ethnic groups officially opened in Ha Giang city, the northernmost province of Ha Giang, on May 13.
A waterfall festival will be held this weekend at the Ban Gioc Waterfall Tourism Complex in Dam Thuy commune, Trung Khanh district, the northern province of Cao Bang.
Tens of thousands of locals in the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang as well as tourists flocked to Chiem Hoa district on February 4 to join the Long Tong (going to the field) festival, a unique and most typical agricultural festival of the Tay, a big ethnic minority group in the locality.
