(VOVWORLD) - The Lu ethnic group in Lai Chau province, which has fewer than 10,000 people, has retained its unique culture. The local authorities have helped the group preserve their stilt houses, costumes, festivals, and folk songs.

(VOVWORLD) - The Co Tu ethnic group has many special rituals and customs, including a thanksgiving ceremony for the parents of one’s wife. The ceremony honors family morality and demonstrates the son-in-law’s filial piety toward his wife’s family.

(VOVWORLD) - The Kho Mu ethnic minority group in Lai Chau province owns a treasure of unique culture, traditions, and customs. They hold their traditional New Rice Welcome Ritual, known as the Ma Ma Me festival, annually to express their gratitude to their ancestors and gods for blessing them with bumper crops, wealth, and a happy life.

(VOVWORLD) - Dak Lak province has been enhancing activities to preserve the culture ofthe Central Highlands’ indigenous groups. Besides classes on gong music and folk singing and dancing, Dak Lak has just opened classes for villagers on epic and rhyme performance.

(VOVWORLD) - Rice has always been part of the life of the Van Kieu on the Truong Son mountain range in Quang Tri province. Because their life depends on the terraced rice fields they’ve built in difficult mountain terrain, they always pray for a sufficient harvest. Their New Rice ceremony conveys their wish for the deities to bless them with a good harvest and greater prosperity.

(VOVWORLD) - To every Vietnamese, President Ho Chi Minh was a great leader and beloved father, who dedicated his life to the cause of national liberation and unification. To show respect, gratitude, and remembrance of President Ho Chi Minh, ethnic people in many localities, including Quang Nam province, take the surname Ho.

(VOVWORLD) - Brocade weaving retains the traditional cultural characteristics of the Co Tu ethnic people. The craft took shape since the Co Tu discovered the cotton tree (Kpay) originally growing in the forest, brought it back to grow on the mountain fields, and widely popularized it.

(VOVWORLD) - Tung tung da dá is a traditional community dance of the Co Tu ethnic minority. The beautiful dance shows a harmony between men and women, symbolizing yin and yang in the universe. All villagers make a circle and dance anti-clockwise to the background sound of upbeat drums and gongs echoing in the majestic Truong Son mountain range.

(VOVWORLD) - The Tay ethnic minority people often live together in small hamlets in remote mountain areas. As they rarely meet new people, the Tay take all opportunities possible to broaden their friendship and social circle. Sometimes two friends, who know each other and feel very congenial, may want to become twins for brotherhood.

(VOVWORLD) - The Guol House features the unique architecture and culture of the Co Tu. It’s a sacred and intimate symbol in the material and cultural life of the ethnic minority group, who live mainly in Thua Thien Hue and Quang Nam province in the Truong Son range.