Yen Bai - Along with the natural landscapes and landscapes bestowed by two main ethnic groups, the Mong and the Thai, Mu Cang Chai has many unique cultural features, which have been formed for a long time with traditional cultural values. traditions on festivals, customs, practices, costumes, traditional occupations, arts, cuisine, housing...
As a highland district, Mu Cang Chai is blessed with a cool climate all year round and many beautiful, diverse and rich landscapes. Typically: Lung Cung peak in Nam Co commune, sky tower top in La Pan Tan commune for tourists who love to explore and experience ecotourism; the unique beauty of terraced fields in the ripe rice season and the pouring water season; pure white plum blossom, apple tree flower, mustard flower, faded pink color of wild peaches and peaches when spring comes, and many other landscapes are community tourism villages imbued with Hmong and Thai culture; beautiful check-in points such as Pung Luong bamboo forest, Lao Chai ancient rock field, pine forest, De Xu Phinh dinosaur spine, horseshoe hammock in Mo De commune or the mystery of Nam Khat commune's cave...
Along with the natural landscapes and landscapes bestowed by two main ethnic groups, the Mong and the Thai, Mu Cang Chai has many unique cultural features, which have been formed for a long time with traditional cultural values. traditions on festivals, customs, practices, costumes, traditional occupations, arts, cuisine, housing...
Mr. Trinh The Binh - Head of the Department of Culture and Information of Mu Cang Chai district said: "With over 90% of the population being H'mong people, Mu Cang Chai has many unique customs, traditions, and cultural features. like a majestic, beautiful natural landscape. Therefore, promoting local strengths, the district has always focused on preserving and restoring festivals, organizing folklore activities and traditional crafts for tourism development.
Typical examples are: Festival of thick flowers, New rice festival, Hmong Khen Festival; annual activities to celebrate Independence Day 2/9 with traditional Hmong games, trade fairs, upland market activities; goat fighting contest, fast rice harvest, good plowing, drawing patterns on fabric with beeswax ... attract a large number of domestic and foreign tourists to visit and experience".
In addition, Mu Cang Chai also focuses on building mass art teams associated with community tourism villages to serve tourists. Currently, in addition to professional art teams and teams in agencies, organizations and non-businesses, 100% of communes and towns in the district as well as most of the villages have ensembles. them, contributing to preserving and promoting local art forms.
Giang Su Giang, an artist from Hang Phu Loa village, Mo De commune said: “With more than 40 years of experience in the field of making and performing the Mong flute, along with practice, I always actively teach the class. children to preserve and promote later. In which, dozens of people have come to learn how to make and there are 2 students who are now making quality trumpets for use and sale; In terms of dance, blowing and performing arts, I have also taught many local young people, not counting those who know little, only those who have performed fluently, are eligible to work as flute teachers. is 8 people. Recently, I was also invited by the district to work as a teacher to teach flute-making for a class with 1 students in the commune.
Up to now, 100% of schools in the district have brought traditional cultural and ethnic education contents into their schools, and implemented a model of "Tourism School" in 7 school units; 100% of communes and towns maintain regular activities of cultural and identity teams; 50% of villages and residential groups maintain regular activities of cultural and identity teams... and there are 7 more artisans in folk performing arts and recognized folk knowledge; established many new clubs on preserving traditional culture in schools and villages.
With attention, investment, improving the quality of tourist services as well as preserving and promoting traditional cultural values, Mu Cang Chai has helped Mu Cang Chai welcome over 350.000 tourists in 2022, reaching 166,7 .3,3% of the plan, increased 270 times over the same period; bringing in revenue of more than 174,2 billion dong from tourism activities, reaching 4,5 percent of the plan, increasing XNUMX times over the same period. New tourism products and diverse traditional cultural values are preserved and promoted, contributing to bringing Mu Cang Chai closer to the goal of building the district into a "Green - Identity - Safety" tourist district. - friendly".
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