The Khau Vai Love Market Culture-Tourism Week – an annual cultural event in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang - will take place in Meo Vac District from May 1 to 3.
The Khau Vai Love Market an annual cultural event in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang. (Souce: dulich.vn)
Ha Giang (VNA) - The Khau Vai Love ꧙Market Culture-Tourism Week – an annual cultural event in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang - will take place in Meo Vac District from May 1 to 3.
Vice Chairman of the District People’s Committee Tran Kim Ngoc said this year’s event would highlight the unique cultural identities of local ethnic minority groups.
Activities include goat, cow and nightingale fighting festivals, horse races and incense offerings at two temples in Khau Vai Commune.
A photo exhibit featuring the beauty of Khau Vai Commune, folk games and a giay cake (round glutinous rice cake) making contest will also be held at the event.
Visitors will also have the opportunity to witness the Nung ethnic people’s betrothal ceremony, and enjoy traditional dishes of ethnic minorities from across the locality.
Visitors can attend an art performance on the sad story of a couple believed to be the origin of the Khau Vai Love Market, established in 1919.
Legend has it that a couple were deeply in love, but were forbidden to be together because they were from different ethnic groups. They then made the promise to meet once every year in the local market in Khau Vai Commune on the 27th of the third lunar month (May 3 this year).
Since then, the love market, which is located 180km from Ha Giang, has been held once every year in the third lunar month.
At the market, ex-lovers are reunited, talk about their current marriages and warm up their lost love. Many husbands and wives arrive at the market together before they both seek their past partners among the crowd.
The hundred-year-old festival has now become a tourist attraction, drawing thousands of visitors from across the country and abroad.-VNA
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The Khau Vai Love Market an annual cultural event in the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang. (Souce: dulich.vn)
