Peach blossoms by the stone fence

Spring on the Stone Plateau is when the earth and sky play a symphony of flowers. Amidst the vast grey rocks is a space filled with colors and fragrances. After a year of hiding and sacrificing their life, the flowers promise to bloom brilliantly across the sky. In that symphony are musical notes containing the deep pink of peach blossoms; the white of pear, apricot, and plum blossoms; and the multi-colored buckwheat flowers in each moment of intersection.

Among the myriad of blooming flowers, peach blossom is the most beautiful flower of spring. In addition to symbolizing prosperity, happiness, peace, and luck through its bright pink color, peach blossom on the Ha Giang Stone Plateau also brings something special that no other place has. Peach blossom has become a tree that every family plants around their garden.

Spring comes to the Stone Plateau (Tham Ma slope, Pho Cao commune, Dong Van district).

The Mong people in Ha Giang have built stone fences around their houses. The stone fences have created a unique beauty of Ha Giang that captivates many tourists. Also from this stone fence, many boys and girls have become couples after dating. The stone fences surrounding the Mong people's houses create a harmonious, profound and nostalgic beauty. The stone fences have witnessed the joys and sorrows of many generations of the Mong people here. Over time, from the function of protecting the house, the stone fences have gradually become a cultural symbol of the Mong people in Ha Giang.

The stone fences become most beautiful in the spring when combined with the brilliant red-pink color of peach blossoms. The peach trees beside the stone fence are like a painting with a skillful combination between human hands and nature. If nature brings a brilliant spring of peach blossoms, people have arranged majestic stone fences. The cold, sad, and quiet characteristics of the stone suddenly become strangely cozy when standing next to the bright red peach blossoms. We see a skillful and skillful contrast. Stone and flowers create a beauty of peace that every person wishes to find. Peach blossoms beside the stone fence not only bring stunning beauty to Ha Giang but also bring many meanings to the lives of the Mong people.

Nowhere in our country is there a flower as beautiful as the peach blossoms on the stone fence. To have the beautiful blooming flowers like a painting, the peach tree in the Stone Plateau has to endure the harshness of nature. Living next to barren rocks, the tree has to find its own source of nutrition to grow strong. All year round, it has to bathe in wind, wash with dew and endure a cold winter, the peach tree becomes surprisingly strong. The flower buds go through many hardships waiting for the day to bloom. That is why we can easily recognize the peach blossoms on the stone fence as more beautiful than other places. That beauty is the combination of earth, sky and human hands. Flowers are not only beautiful when seen with the eyes but even more beautiful when felt with the heart.

I was stunned when I went to Ha Giang in the spring. What impressed me most were the bright pink peach blossoms beside the gray stone fence. Not only adding beauty to the landscape, the peach blossoms and the stone fence spoke for the aspirations of the Mong people here. Although life is still full of hardships and difficulties, although nature does not favor fertile land. They still skillfully follow nature. Like the peach blossoms beside the stone fence, overcoming adversity to bloom. Having lived for thousands of generations beside the stone, the Mong people are the most beautiful flowers. That is the beauty of will, aspiration, a vast, open heart, and a generous soul full of love.

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