An annual festival to honour the buckwheat flowers, the most iconic flowers of the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang, and the unique cultural values of the province’s local ethnic people is taking place in Dong Van district.
Local children play in a sea of buckwheat flowers (Photo: VNA)
Ha Giang (VNA)- An annual festival to honour the buckwheat flowers, the most iconic flowersof the northern mountainous province of Ha Giang, and the unique culturalvalues of the province’s local ethnic people is taking place in Dong Van district.
The one-month event includes a variety of activities, such as photoexhibitions, buckwheat flower arrangement displays, an exhibition of productsfrom buckwheat flowers, musical performances and recreations of some ethnicpeople’s festivals.
Addressing the opening ceremony, Tran Duc Quy, Vice Chairman of the provincial PeopleCommittee and also head of the management board, said that the festival is oneof the province’s activities aimed at promoting tourism.
“Ha Giang has been endowed with many magnificent unspoiled landscapes. With theaim of turning our difficulties into momentum for development, the localauthorities and ethnic people have constantly made great efforts and workedtogether to reduce poverty,”
Quy said: “Together with strengthening agricultural production, the provincehas chosen tourism as one of the key industries.”
Beautiful fields of buckwheat flowers, framed by magnificent limestonemountains, have become a highlight attraction for tourists to Ha Giang provincein recent years. The province hopes to draw more tourists by showcasing itsnatural attractions.
First held in 2015, the festival aims to promote and popularise the image of HaGiang province among both domestic and international tourists.
While promoting tourism in the region, the festival is also expected to improvethe livelihoods of the local ethnic people.
Thousands of tourists are expected to attend the event, which will run untilthe end of this year.
Buckwheat is cultivated for its grain-like seeds, which are used to makespecialty food by ethnic minorities in the mountainous region.
The crop is often planted around September. From late October to early Novembercarpets of buckwheat flowers are in full bloom, making for a spectacular sight.The hills and mountains are covered by the white and pink of the flowers.
The flowers symbolise love and happiness, so many couples shoot their weddingphotos in these fields.-VNA
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Local children play in a sea of buckwheat flowers (Photo: VNA) 
