(VOVWORLD) - The sound of gongs, gourd clarinets, and drums echoes over mountains and forests from Diom A hamlet, Don Duong district, Lam Dong province. Regular performances have revived the music and dances of the local Chu Ru.

(VOVWORLD) - Tay poet Nong Viet Toai, who was born in the Viet Bac northern region, the base of Vietnam’s revolutionary forces during their struggle against French colonialists, has spent most of his life exploring the culture of the Tay ethnic group. His many poems and other literary works have contributed significantly to promoting and preserving Tay culture.

(VOVWORLD) - The Tho ethnic minority live in mountain communes in Nghe An and Thanh Hoa province. They have maintained their traditional costumes, folk singing, and dancing. Gong playing is an important part of their culture.

(VOVWORLD) - The Ngai group has about 1,200 people living in 27 cities and provinces, but mostly in the northern province of Thai Nguyen. The Ngai are called by many names Khach Gia, He, Ngai Hac Ca, and Ngai Lau Man. They call themselves San Ngai, which means mountain people. The name indicates their original habitat and asserts their role in land reclamation and settlement of mountain hamlets.

(VOVWORLD) - A group of teachers and students at the Boarding High School in Dien Bien province has developed a website for the self-study of the Thai language. In 2019, the website won 1stprize at Dien Bien’s 15th Innovation Contest for Teenagers and Children.

(VOVWORLD) - It’s a Dao tradition that girls must learn to weave, embroider, and make their own clothes when they are little. The embroidery patterns on their clothes reflect the culture and religion of the Dao. Today VOV looks at the brocade weaving and embroidery of the Dao Tiền in Cao Bang province.

(VOVWORLD) - A stilt house built by the Thai ethnic minority people has two wood stoves for different purposes. Besides cooking, the wood stove has an important position in the spiritual life of the Thai in Vietnam’snorthwestern mountainous region.

(VOVWORLD) - Of Vietnam’s 54 ethnic groups, several consist of a few hundred people living in remote mountain areas. The O Du in Nghe An province is one of the groups with the smallest populations.

(VOVWORLD) - For many generations the Nung An ethnic minority of Phja Thap hamlet have been making incense sticks from natural materials. Phja Thap hamlet at the foot of Ta Hung mountain is famous for its agarwood incense sticks and provides an interesting stop-over on atour of the northern border province of Cao Bang.

(VOVWORLD) - Sin Ho district in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau is home to the Dao Khau ethnic minority group. Each Dao Khau clan has a set of musical instruments to use at family and community events such as funerals and weddings. The musical instruments are carefully preserved as a family treasure.