Everyone hopes that there will be at least a few photos taken with flowers that only bloom when Spring comes. Those are 5-petal wild peach blossoms that are thin but full of life, are white plum blossoms with golden pistils on the trunks of ancient trees with green moss... Just that is enough to see that Spring has come very close.
2. Along the road from the lowlands to the uplands, it is unknown since when yellow and white mustard gardens have appeared to serve tourists. There are mustard flower fields arranged evenly in rows; some gardens are located on large hills, mustard flowers are planted in the shape of hearts.
In some places, the yellow and white color of mustard flowers is extended by the pinkish-purple color of buckwheat flowers. Yellow, white, and pinkish-purple colors help visitors' eyes reach the mountain range with gray rocks in the green forest. Therefore, no one can resist their love for the mountainous nature on Spring days.
3. One of the people who takes care of the mustard flower field by the roadside is an old Mong woman. Every day she goes to the yellow mustard flower and white mustard flower field to welcome guests. She collects money, sells tickets, and points out to guests the entrance so as not to step on the mustard flower beds that are blooming.
When she is free, the old woman goes to the hut to sit and sew flax fibers with her sinewy hands, to weave into new dresses to wear when Tet comes. She said that the dresses are mainly woven from flax fibers. The process of making is that the flax tree is planted, harvested, peeled and then dried, sewn into fibers. The most elaborate is that the flax fibers are sewn manually and woven on the weaving frame to create the fabric... Next are the stages of creating patterns, colors...
She said: I'm old now, I only do handmade sewing, the rest is done by children. "Each handmade dress worn during Tet will bring good luck" - she said. Asking her what she wants when Tet comes, she smiled very sincerely and said gently: I just hope the Spring days will be long, and many customers from the lowlands will come to the garden to take photos to have more money for life.
4. A trip to the mountains to welcome Spring, along the way you also encounter pink grass hills. There, there is a H'Mong couple. The husband takes care of watering the trees, cleaning up weeds. The wife takes care of selling tickets, collecting money and... watching so that customers do not step on the pink grass. Customers buy tickets to take photos, if there are few, the wife follows close to the landslide floor, constantly reminding them not to go into the middle of the grass bed. On crowded days, the wife will call for more help, just to protect the thin red grass.
Because he works monthly here, the husband is paid about 7 - 8 million VND/month. The wife works on a daily basis, and is paid 250,000 VND per day. The couple has a baby, the younger one is less than 2 years away from the previous one. Late in the afternoon, when the weak sunshine at the end of this season fell on the pink grass, the husband told the wife to give him money to go to the market.
The wife gave her husband a 100,000 VND bill with both hands. The husband thought for a moment and then said while laughing: Give me another bill to buy a piece of meat to boil tonight, it's been a long time since the whole family has eaten boiled meat. The wife saw the customer standing next to witness the story, so she gave another 100,000 VND bill without nagging...
Then, as if suddenly remembering her work, the wife turned around and reminded the customer not to step on the grass because if they did, the grass would die, her wages would be deducted, and her family would not have money to buy meat for dinner... Before the customer had time to laugh at her reasoning, she "advised": "Look over there, you have to stand on the road between the two patches of grass to get the whole view below; this place, if there is a flycam, will be very beautiful...
After saying that, she said if customers needed to help take photos, please give her the phone. Surprisingly, the photo she took with the phone has a tight composition when the customer is in the center of the photo, surrounded by pink grass. When asked where she learned to take photos, she replied: Every spring there are many customers, many customers guide and ask her to take photos, gradually she knows how to take scenery, knows where to stand to take beautiful photos... She said she is very grateful to Spring!
5. Along the national highway and also along the winding small roads leading to peach gardens, plum blossom gardens or selling vegetables, bunches of peach blossoms, bunches of plums in buds. Some places sell both ginger, chayote, baby broccoli. Vegetables here are fresh and sweet because they have just been cut and previously absorbed the growth and bloom only in spring. The flavor of spring in the mountains and forests going downstream brings purity, strength, and hope. Really grateful for spring.
