Celebrate Tet with people in the highlands

The elderly have parties of apple wine, corn wine, and cassava wine that make their lips fragrant. The young have traditional games that are lively and bustling. Boys and girls come and go to give love to each other. Spring is therefore always joyful and full of love!

Festival of the Mong people

In the border region, there are many unique festivals. Ha Giang people often hold the Gau Tao festival from the 3rd to the 6th of January. Spring is bustling with the sound of the Khen resounding on the mountain top: "The Mong people sing together, someone's horse goes to the market. The Gau Tao festival is very crowded, there are many fun games, the flower-shaped umbrellas let the Khen sound resound far and wide...".

Gau Tao Festival is the biggest festival, with the largest number of Mong people participating. Gau Tao Festival is to thank heaven and earth, the mountain gods for protecting the village and helping the villagers overcome the harshness of the highlands. And it also means singing love songs on the mountains.

People chose a beautiful hill, convenient for travel, with a flat surface large enough for all residents in the area to gather there. The pole - a symbol of the strong longevity of the Mong people on the barren stone plateau was erected, splendid and sacred.

Spring in the Mong village. Photo: Ta Quang Bao

After the ceremony, the festival-goers enthusiastically participated in performances and competitions, some dancing with flutes, some dancing with sticks. There were also throwing cones, spinning tops, cockfighting, nightingale fighting, horse racing, crossbow shooting… the sounds of singing and cheering echoed throughout the mountains and forests.

Spring on the border

During the spring festival, the Mong people dress up beautifully. Children gather under the familiar old apricot and plum trees. Anyone who has traveled to the northern mountainous region will see in the villages, children playing the game of pushing tires on the road with sticks; or just using a water trough to the fields, the children have turned it into a game of water skiing.

One spring afternoon, while wandering around Ban Gioc waterfall, I happened to see a group of children playing a game of pushing sticks. Very simple, but very touching.

Located in the border belt, Ban Gioc waterfall is one of the 10 most magnificent waterfalls in the world , and is located in an important position of our country's border. While the other side is developing with brilliant lights and bustling people, this side is leisurely and peaceful for generations, on the land that our ancestors have preserved.

Afternoons in the border region often bring many emotions. A few rafts take tourists on a cruise on the river. On the shore, in the rice fields, children are playing stick pushing, their laughter makes people feel excited, love and suddenly feel sorry for Vietnam.

I told myself, I must thank those innocent children, they will be the young generation to protect every inch of this land. The border areas always need hard-working people, innocent children clinging to the mountains and hills. They cling to the land and villages, protecting the borders of the Fatherland.

Photo: Ta Quang Bao

During the days of riding our motorbikes, we passed each milestone and counted each branch in the border area. Traveling between heaven and earth, we saw how beautiful our country is in spring!

On the roads around the mountains, couples of boys and girls ride side by side. It seems that spring is always bright and innocent in the mountains and hills of the border.

I have also experienced spring in Lung Cu. There is nothing more exciting than being in the homeland’s frontier on the first day of Tet, lying down listening to the rooster crowing loudly, in the distance the red flag fluttering on the high mountain.

How beautiful is my homeland, my country! That life is the green spring in the borderland with every moment, every inch of peaceful land, every yellow mustard flower growing on dry rocks, every peach blossom full of pink. Go to feel grateful to those who have kept the homeland peaceful, to blend in with the rhythm of the clouds and sky...

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