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CHARMING HA GIANG PLATEAU DISCOVERY Life sprouts from rocky mountains Living off the rocks: Ethnic groups in northern are cultivating a seemingly impenetrable plateau.
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CHARMING HA GIANG PLATEAU DISCOVERY
Life sprouts from rocky mountains Living off the rocks: Ethnic groups in northern are cultivating a seemingly impenetrable
plateau.
To the north of Ha Giang Province, there’s a famous stone plateau home to ethnic minorities like the Mong, Dao, Lo Lo and Pu Peo. The steep mountainous terrain, coupled with a cold climate
and a shortage of water, has driven locals to form a lifestyle they call “living with stones, buried under stones”.
HA GIANG MOUTAIN AND ETHNIC COMMUNITY LIFE To the north of Ha Giang Province, there’s a famous stone plateau home to ethnic minorities like
the Mong, Dao, Lo Lo and Pu Peo. The steep mountainous terrain, coupled with a cold climate and a shortage of water, has driven locals to form a lifestyle they call “living with stones, buried
under stones”.
HA GIANG ROCKY TERRAIN CULTIVATION Ethnic people take advantage of every single patch of soil on the rocky terrain. This
cultivation technique has been passed down from generation to generation.
HA GIANG PLATEAU Farming is time-consuming and labor-intensive. As the proportion of arable land on the plateau is fairly low, people have to fetch soil from other sites to create gardens. They also build stone walls
around their gardens to prevent soil from being washed away.
Ethnic people use a large area of land to grow corn in addition to vegetables. They
don’t use fertilizers or pesticides so each crop depends almost entirely nature.
HA GIANG CROP The tools are quite primitive, including ploughs, rakes and hoes. People start a new
crop in the second month of the lunar calendar, after the traditional Tet holiday.
HA GIANG MOUTAIN After plowing, local farmers pour spread animal manure on the land.
People bury seeds under the ground.
On the plateau, everyone works together, and even kids are involved.
HA GIANG CENTRAL HIGHLANDS
Unlike ethnic communities in the Central Highlands who use sticks to dig holes in the ground, local people here just use their bare hands.
GOOD HARVEST People choose “good days” according to the calendar to sow seeds as they believe this
will result in a good harvest.
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