Ha Giang is ready for the buckwheat flower festival

Dong Van district sowed 250 hectares of buckwheat flowers and prepared many experiential activities to welcome tourists to participate in the Buckwheat Flower Festival at the end of October.

This year's festival has the theme "The Stone Plateau in Bloom". Dong Van District is the center of the festival. This year, the event is held in conjunction with the third ceremony to receive the title of member of the UNESCO Global Geopark Network of Dong Van Stone Plateau.

Currently, Dong Van has planted 250 hectares of buckwheat, including 51 key hectares, concentrated in several communes such as Van Chai, Pho Cao, Sung La, Sa Phin, Lung Cu, Dong Van town...

Buckwheat flowers on the rocky mountains. Photo: My Ly

In order to create a difference from previous festival seasons, the locality has built a plan to organize many experiential activities for visitors. Accordingly, the festival has many places for visitors to see flowers, perform folk art exchanges and traditional games such as folk singing, flute playing, panpipe dancing, ball hitting, swallow fighting, swinging, etc.

Dong Van also proactively designs and shapes flower growing areas to ensure aesthetics. In addition, communes and towns have established self-management groups to unify management and care, ensuring environmental sanitation, safety and order at flower growing areas serving tourists.

Within the framework of the festival, there will be space to display buckwheat flowers on the main roads of the district such as on the walking street of Dong Van Ancient Town, the square - where the main festival takes place... At the same time, visitors can see booths displaying cultural products, tourism products, agricultural products, cuisine and local medicinal herbs.

In addition, the locality organizes many other experiences for visitors on this occasion such as weaving linen, hand-embroidering traditional costumes, making household items and ethnic musical instruments; cuisine or activities related to the life of the people of the rocky plateau such as splitting, grinding, tossing corn into baskets, carrying corn across bridges...

In addition to the central festival area, cultural tourism villages also organize many cultural exchange activities, arts, and folk games for visitors to experience.

Opening ceremony of the Ha Giang Buckwheat Flower Festival 2022. Photo: My Ly

Mr. Nguyen Van Chinh - Vice Chairman of Dong Van District People's Committee said that the district wants to create something new, while still preserving the inherent value of a traditional festival. Dong Van is ready to welcome visitors to experience a new festival season," he said.

Through this year's festival, the locality also aims to promote the spirit of national solidarity, boost economic and social development; contribute to honoring the values, images of life, people and traditional cultural values ​​of ethnic groups on the Dong Van stone plateau, and at the same time, exploit the available tourism potential.

The Ha Giang buckwheat flower festival was first held in 2015 and has become an annual event to promote the image and introduce the province's strong products, helping to boost local economic and social development.

My Ly

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