Thứ Ba, 11 tháng 11, 2014

Khau Vai Love Market Festival

Khau Vai Love Market Festival
Khau Vai Love Market Festival plays an vital role in promoting the unique identity of Vietnam’s northern mountainous region. This is a great celebration to show participants' emotions of love and local lifestyles.
Love Market event is held in  in Meo Vac district, Ha Giang province on lunar March 26th and 27th. It has attracting thousands of visitors each year.

Attending love market, tourists will easily reach two temples named Ong and Ba temples. The festival is derived from a sad story. According to folklore, there was a boy and a girl born in different tribes on the Dong Van Plateau. They fell in love with each other but were prohibited from the two families. There were some fierce battles occurred between the two tribes and caused lots of people dead. To stop the conflict, they had to break up but promise to meet once a year on lunar March 26th in Khau Vai. Since then, Khai Vai love Market festival develops widely and become a perfect celebration for those who are in love but can not marry to come and meet each other again. Also, it is a great opportunity for girls and boys to understand each other and show their love. Time goes by but its meaning still remains and attract people in Vietnam to attend.

Moreover, Khau Vai love market Festival also helps some spouses to make their life  balance. In details, spouses are able to go to the market with the aims of finding their partners to share their feelings they can't do with their lovers. Like Paris, this event is naturally considered as the symbol of love and romance of the Vietnamese people. This is one of the great attractions of Vietnam Holidays that every tourist shouldn't miss.
Khau Vai Love Market

In addition, this occasion support people an excellent calendar helping predict the rainfall for their crop in that year. Attendees tend to wish for a good harvests and luck  as well as take part in exciting activities for relaxation. 

The second day is focused on boiled rice contest and  heaping up a sandy mountain to pray for rain. On the last day of this occasion, visitors will have the chance to participate the celebration of washing the Buddha’s statue and Buddhist monks to show their deep gratitude of the Buddha.

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