A cultural event highlighting the Khau Vai Love Market will take
place on April 24 to 26 in the northern Ha Giang Province's Meo Vac District, a
local official said.
"The Khau Vai Love Market
festival 2014 will be organised on a large scale with activities taking place
for three days showcasing the most typical cultural features of the local
ethnic minority people," vice chairman of the provincial People's Committee,
Tran Kim Ngoc, said.
The 100-year-old festival,
which is held annually during the third lunar month, is a popular meeting place
for ethnic groups, and particularly for those people in love. Legend has it
that a couple who very much loved each other, but could not live together, made
the promise to meet once a year in Khau Vai on the 27th of the third lunar
month. From then on, the festival has been held every year on this day for
ex-lovers to meet and share their feelings.
"Festival goers will have
the chance to enjoy horse fighting, which is available nowhere else, as well as
bull and nightingale fighting," Ngoc added.
"These activities are
meaningful to the local people in the Dong Van Stone Plateau, which further
encourages the development of cow and horse breeding."
The event will also present cultural and art performances, and
folk games, including drum dancing of the Giay ethnic group, lanh cloth
weaving, flute making and horse riding with the Mong people. Other activities
will include tasting traditional dishes such as maize wine, mint-fragrant
honey, smoked pork, goat hot pot, and wearing the costumes of the ethnic girls
and women.
From Dan Tri News
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