Thach Son, the season of warmth and prosperity

(Baonghean) - From the core area of ​​Pu Mat National Park, on December 6, 2006, more than 40 Dan Lai ethnic households in Bung and Co Phat villages, Mon Son commune (Con Cuong) moved to resettle in Thach Ngan commune, naming the new village Thach Son, combining the two communes of Thach Ngan and Mon Son. This is the 8th spring that people in the Dan Lai resettlement area have celebrated Tet in their new home, and it is also the warmest and most prosperous spring...

From the initial 40 households, Thach Son village now has 50 households and 234 people. Although the life of the Dan Lai people here is still difficult, 12 km from the commune center and 32 km from the district center, the agricultural land area is only 6 hectares, mainly forest and mountainous land, but in the past 7 years, thanks to the attention of the Party, the State and the efforts of each individual, they have gradually overcome difficulties, stabilized their mentality and attached to their new place of residence. People have reclaimed land, planted forests and produced agriculture to develop the economy and build new rural areas. Currently, the village has 40 hectares of forest, 3 hectares of rice, 8 hectares of vegetables with an average yield of 45 quintals/ha, raising 23 buffaloes and cows, 50 pigs, 40 goats, and 130 poultry. Thanks to that, everyone has jobs, income, and improved family life.

In the 2013-2014 winter-spring crop, the Working Group to support and direct production for the resettled Dan Lai people of Con Cuong district has gradually guided and transferred cultivation and livestock raising techniques to the people such as hybrid corn planting techniques, corn on hilly land, wet rice planting techniques, growing green vegetables and disease prevention and cold protection for livestock and poultry. At the same time, supporting green vegetable seeds, rice, corn, fertilizers for the people to produce the spring crop. Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Thanh An - Working Group to support and direct production for the resettled Dan Lai people, said: "The Working Group of Con Cuong district is very interested in supporting and directing production to change the awareness and thinking of the resettled Dan Lai people in cultivation and livestock raising. At the same time, stabilizing the security, order and social situation and helping the people to have better conditions to integrate into the community".

Housing of resettled people in Dan Lai.

During the recent Giap Ngo Tet, the resettled people of Thach Son village received the attention of philanthropists: Traffic Construction Corporation 4 presented 50 poor households in the especially difficult villages of Thach Ngan commune, including 25 Dan Lai households, each with a gift worth 500,000 VND; presented 25 households with 25 breeding cows, each worth 15 million VND, and supported with money for building barns and buying vaccines, totaling over 400 million VND. After the cows give birth to the first or second litter, the calves will be transferred to the next households so that more households can benefit from the program.

Not only focusing on economic development, education, culture, and health care for the people have also been improved. Kindergartens and primary schools in the village have been invested in and built spaciously. Not only children can go to school, but women, mothers, and grandmothers can also go to school to build a more prosperous, happy, equal, and progressive family. This year, people can celebrate Tet in the new Community House, so everyone is excited and happy.

Perhaps, since moving to the new land, this is the happiest, fullest, and most prosperous spring for the people. When Tet comes, people prepare offerings to their ancestors and grandparents, thanking heaven and earth for giving them good crops and healthy children. The beautiful, traditional customs passed down from generation to generation of the Dan Lai people are still preserved and promoted. Mr. La Van Hung, Thach Son village, Thach Ngan commune said: “The custom of the Dan Lai people on Tet is to offer fish. When moving here, there is no fish available in the rivers and streams like there is in the past, so the family has to go buy fish, and it is not possible without fish. We pray for peace in the village, good health for our children, and for favorable weather and good crops next year.”

With their own internal strength, the resettled Dan Lai people are gradually rising up to escape poverty sustainably, uniting together to build green - clean - beautiful villages, peaceful hamlets, free of social evils, and strictly implementing all policies and laws of the Party and the State. When spring is spreading across the land and sky, in the laughter and joy, the spring calling song of the Dan Lai people blends with the sounds of the mountains and forests: “In the past, we Dan Lai people suffered a lot, following the deer's footprints to plant rice, following the tiger's footprints to plant corn/ Wandering at the top of the mountain, feeling lost on the pass/ Like a small stream, like the wind of a thousand afternoons/ Since the Party came, our Dan Lai people have had a peaceful life/ No one forced us to pay for a hundred golden bamboo trees, no one forced us to pay for a rowed boat/ We Dan Lai people call for spring to come, we Dan Lai people call for spring to come”.

Thu Trang(Con Cuong Radio)