The Hau Doong Festival is a spiritual event held on the 6th day of the 6th lunar month each year by the Giay ethnic people in the northwestern mountainous province of Lai Chau. This year’s event took place in Quyet Thang ward and San Thang commune, where most Giay people live.
The Mong ethnic minority people in the northern mountainous province of Yen Bai are glowing with pride after their “khen” (panpipe) was recognised recently as a national intangible cultural heritage.
With the passing of time, gongs have become an attractive and appealing symbol of the culture of the Central Highlands, associated with the cultural and spiritual lives and beliefs of local ethnic minority people.
A project on economic empowerment for young ethnic minority people in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau has had many activities to create livelihoods, promote gender equality, and facilitate youth development after two years of implementation.
For generations, the Red Cờ Lao, one of Vietnam’s various ethnic minority groups, have lived in villages on the slopes of the Tay Con Linh mountain range in the northern province of Ha Giang. Their cultural values have changed over times, but some of them have been preserved to this day.
Each year, in late March, the Jrai ethnic minority people in the Central Highlands’ province of Gia Lai hold a ceremony to worship the forest god, while also praying for good health among the villagers as well as a bumper harvest.
The Central Highlands’ province of Lam Dong is home to four brocade weaving villages of local ethnic minority people. In a bid to preserve the traditional cultural identity of the K’Ho people, artisans in Ka Tung village, Đam Rông district, are working with local authorities to restore and preserve their traditional craft of brocade weaving.
The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak is known as the “Coffee Capital of Vietnam” and the provincial capital Buon Ma Thuot has been built into a destination for the world coffee lovers.
Khen (panpipes) plays a significant role in the culture and spiritual life of the Mong ethnic minority people in the northernmost province of Ha Giang. People have therefore spared no effort to make khen and teach younger generations how to play the instrument.
Living in Thuong Trach commune in Bo Trach district, Quang Binh province, the Ma Coong ethnic minority people have long cared about preserving and promoting the cultural beauty of their drum festival, the biggest and most important celebration and held every lunar January 16.
The model of community-based tourism in remote communes of Son La province has developed quite strongly over recent years, running in parallel with the restoration of the unique traditional cultural values of ethnic minorities to promote typical ethnic minority identities.
Sli is a unique folk singing style of the Nung ethnic minority people in Vietnam’s northern region, which is performed as a call and response between young men and women.
Vietnam is home to 54 ethnic groups, each of which has its own identity and unique values in terms of customs and traditions, contributing to the cultural diversity in the country.
Mat Than Mountain is a spectacular and unique natural landscape in Cao Chuong commune, Trung Khanh district in the northern province of Cao Bang. The mountain is called Phja Piot in the language of the Tay ethnic minority people, meaning “a mountain with a hole”, as there is indeed a hole with a diameter of some 50 metres running right through the mountain about half-way up.
The Buckwheat Flower Festival has returned for an eighth time in Dong Van district in the northernmost province of Ha Giang, and has become a magnet for tourists from far and wide.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has developed a plan to build ecological museum models in an attempt to preserve cultural heritages in ethnic minority communities in association with tourism. With over 90 percent of its population being Tay ethnic minority people, Nghia Do commune in Bao Yen district, Lao Cai province, has been selected to promote the model.
Vice President Vo Thi Anh Xuan has affirmed that the Party and State always pay special attention to ethnic minorities across the country, uphold the importance of ethnic affairs as well as support mechanisms and policies to promote their role.
At a resettlement area in Phu Luu commune in Ham Yen district of the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang, spacious houses were built close to each other connected by paved roads and alleys.
Beyond its stunning views of white plum blossoms blanketing the area in the spring and paddy fields stretching out in vast swathes of yellow in the autumn, Bac Ha plateau in the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai also impresses visitors with its excellent cuisine, such as black sticky rice cake, pink noodles, and young sticky rice.
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