(Baonghean.vn) - Lau Village, Thach Giam Commune, Tuong Duong District is becoming an attractive destination for community-based discovery tourism; people are excited about doing homestay-style tourism...
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Implementing the key project in the action program to implement the Resolution of the 26th Tuong Duong District Party Congress, Lau village, Thach Giam commune was built into a national cultural village serving tourism.The road to Lau village goes over a small bridge over the river. The peaceful, poetic scenery always impresses anyone who comes here for the first time. |
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Only about 2 km from the center of Hoa Binh town, visitors can easily come here to experience the cultural space imbued with the identity of the Thai ethnic group. Ban Lau has 87 households with 357 people and only one ethnic group, the Thai ethnic group of the Thai Muong group. |
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The Thai people in Lau village still preserve their long-standing customs and practices such as worshiping the land lord, the village, ancestors, seasonal festivals such as the "xen ban", "xen muong", "xen huon", etc., the custom of celebrating the new rice crop, worshiping the river god, the mountain god. In the photo: The "making the spirit" procedure in a Thai wedding. |
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Silver bracelets and cash are indispensable items in the "making the spirit" ceremony. |
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Wedding gifts of Thai people in Lau village. |
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Like Thai people in other places, Thai people in Lau village have traditional crafts such as weaving, mulberry growing, silkworm raising, weaving, etc. |
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The products also bear the characteristics of Thai people's lifestyle. |
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The arrangement and placement of items in the Thai stilt house has its own unique features. In the photo: Place to put dishes and items that need to dry on the kitchen loft. |
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Visitors here can experience community tourism in the form of "homestay". |
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Living and eating with the host to better understand the culture of the Thai people. In Lau village, people still maintain the habit of growing sticky rice, eating sticky rice and smoked meat. |
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Ban Lau is one of the bright spots of Thach Giam commune in the new rural construction movement. Visitors coming here will be amazed by the image of stilt houses lying next to each other along the clean concrete road. |
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Lau villagers are simple, sincere, friendly and always conscious of preserving national cultural identity. |
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With such potential, Tuong Duong district is building a roadmap to implement the Lau village cultural village project, including renovating and upgrading the village's communal stilt house to make it a traditional house, recreating the lifestyle and customs of the Thai ethnic group. |
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Implementing the Resolution of the 26th District Party Congress and the Lau village cultural village project, the Party Committee and the government of Thach Giam commune are actively encouraging the villagers to continue preserving the traditional culture of the nation and encouraging families to register for community tourism services. |
Phuong Thao