Rural market introduces culture of northern mountainous region
The opening ceremony featured folk songs and dances of Thai ethnic groups, which praised the country’s land, people and culture. |
The Lao ethnic group from Dien Bien province introduced their traditional craft of brocade weaving to visitors at the event. Duong Thi Phanh, a 43-year-old Thai woman from Dien Bien province, said that she started weaving at the age of 12. She revealed that growing cotton, spinning, and |
It often takes a skilled woman two or three days to complete a scarf, which can be sold for between VND200,000 and VND250,000. |
Mong ethnic men from Dien Bien province performing their traditional blacksmithing techniques. |
Mong people produce knife, ax, spade |
Visitors at the event could warm their belly with a bowl of thang co (an indigenous hotpot of |
An ethnic woman has just finished cooking |
Smoked pork and sausage, two signature dishes of the northern mountainous region. |
Source: NDO
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