In Sapa, apart from the meaning of celebrating the new year, worshiping remembering the ancestors, Tet with the ethnic people here is also an occasion to celebrate folk cultural activities as well as preserve special customs. Especially, the North West Son Coar region is home to many minorities, diverse gatherings of unique and strange Tet welcoming styles.

1. Tet of the Mongolian people
What makes the culture more unique than during the Mongolian Tet is the Gau Tao festival. The boys and girls in brooches are blowing compliments, dancing compliments and drinking corn wine with each other, wishing good thoughts. They also play media games like bird hunting or pole climbing to get wine.



2. Tet of Tay people
At the moment of the New Year, the Tay people will light incense, offer wine to the ancestral altar, pray for a full, prosperous new year. Then, the wine was poured to invite grandparents, parents to be healthy, and live a long life. Next, the adult celebrating the age of telling children and grandchildren to unite, love and help each other in life.



3. Red Dzao Tet
Dao people pay attention to the early spring fortune on the 1st of Tet On this day all the family members go out to the main door, heading east to a tree stump to collect fortune, wish everything goes well in the new year, everyone be safe. In addition to sand wall wishes for relatives, relatives, Dzao people also care, choosing a sauna that fits the family age will bring luck and favor to the owner.



4. Tet of the Giay people
The morning of the 1st day of Xieng Lao, the Giay people wake up to light incense, burn gold in the water tank or become a well to buy new water for the living house. In addition, the Giáy people also keep some other customs such as the Tet day that they do not go to work, they have not passed the full moon, they do not burn the house, they do not sweep the house, and throw the garbage when it has not turned into gold...



Source: Truly Sapa