(HBO) – Ha hamlet in Phu Lai commune, Yen Thuy district, was recognised as a model new-style rural residential area for the 2018 - 2020 period. It is home to more than 140 households of three ethnic groups, with 95 percent belonging to the Muong ethnic group. Over the past years, local residents have united and actively engaged in emulation movements, especially the one on building new-style countryside and civilised cities in tandem with the "All people stay united to develop a civilised lifestyle” movement.
Roads in Ha hamlet of Phu Lai commune, Yen Thuy
district, have been kept clean and beautiful thanks to joint efforts by local
residents.
Local people have joined hands to help their
hamlet meet the basic criteria of a new-style rural area. So far, more than 90
percent of inter-field paths have been paved while 65 percent of inter-field
irrigation canals and 87 percent of rural roads concretised.
Every year, all local households register to
become cultural families and take part in building new-style rural areas. The
percentage of households recognised as cultural families is always 85 percent
and above. In 2020, up to 130 of the 137 local households, equivalent to 92.1
percent, earned this title.
Besides, Ha hamlet has also stayed free of
people committing crimes or law violations. The school enrollment rate among
school-age children is 100 percent, while the annual percentage of students
with good and excellent academic performance is continually higher than 70
percent.
Apart from a civilised lifestyle, local
livelihoods have also been increasingly improved, with per capita income
reaching 43 million VND (about 1,800 USD) in 2020. The number of poor
households has been brought down to six, equivalent to only 0.04 percent. The
hamlet is now free of makeshift houses.
Annual campaigns calling for support for the
poor and expressing gratitude to revolution contributors also attract great
support from the public./.
From March 10th – 11th, the People's Committee of Cao Phong town (Cao Phong) coordinated with the Relics Management Board to organize the traditional festival of Thuong Bong Lai Temple in 2024.
As spring comes, people in Phu Nghia commune in particular and Lac Thuy district in general flock to Tien Pagoda festival to enjoy festive activities during the annual event.
Khai Ha festival is a long-standing traditional folk festival with the largest scale of Muong people in Hoa Binh province. In 2022, Khai Ha fesstival the Muong minority in Hoa Binh province was recognized as a national intangible cultural heritage by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. In 2023 and 2024, the festival was held on the provincial scale, getting together 4 major Muong regions (Bi, Vang, Thang, Dong) to participate, and it has been an opportunity for the quintessence of Muong ethnic culture to converge and shine.
With a great passion for national art, outstanding artisan Nguyen Manh Tuan in Voi area, Ba Hang Doi town in Lac Thuy district, has developed and promoted a Muong ethnic cultural space with over 2,000 artifacts which are familiar in the daily life in the Muong ethnic people.
Along with the process of integration and development, traditional cultural identities of the Muong ethnic community in general, and Muong ethnic people in Tan Lac district in particular, are at risk of falling into oblivion. Therefore, many clubs have been established in the locality to preserve and promote the beauty of the ethnic group’s cultural identities.
Held every three years, the swing festival in Muong Voi, Vu Ban town in Lac Son district is "one-of-a-kind". From the 5th to the 7th day of the first lunar month in the Year of the Dragon, thousands of residents and tourists flocked to the locality to experience the unique cultural festival.