When you travel to Sapa, there are something that you need to note. Going to Cat Cat, Ta Phin, Ta Van of Dao and Mong people, do not sit in the middle compartment, when visit their home, you should follow the instructions of the owner and the front seat of the table is for parents, though they are deceased, guests must not sit there.
Homes of the villagers, the middle compartment is a place of worship, tourists are not allowed to sit in. You should follow the instructions of the owner. Under Hmong customs, the front seat of the table is for parents, if their parents are deceased, guests must not sit on that sacred chair.
Sapa is located in the northwest of the country, a mountainous district of Lao Cai province. Recently, tourists, especially young people (both foreign and native ones) enjoy the kind of trekking, go along carts track, get into upland hills, streams, terraced fields to the remote villages of minority groups.
Setting foot in Cat Cat, Ta Phin, Ta Van, but if they are busy praying or expelling evil spirits, they do not want strangers to attend. At that time in front of villages, there are green leaves hung on tall pillars where everyone can see to avoid entering.
Going in villages, do not laugh and talk out loud as in gardens and parks, you must be slowly, elegant, quiet to respect inherent landscape of the villages. With young children, though kids are lovely, do not rub their heads. Villagers said rubbing heads, kissing the children’s head will make them scared, vulnerable and easy to get sick.
In villages, there is often a very sacred public area to worship: a forbidden forest, an ancient tree, a magnificent stone to worship saints. It is usually a clean, nice, cool place, but tourists do not go there to sit, take a rest, eat, lie, and throw wastes. Do not whistle when sightseeing. Villagers said that whistling sound is calling the devils.
Homes of the villagers, the middle compartment is a place of worship, tourists are not allowed to sit in. You should follow the instructions of the owner. Under Hmong customs, the front seat of the table is for parents, if their parents are deceased, guests must not sit on that sacred chair.
Hmong people buried pillars to the ground, hit as high as rooftops, other pillars are smaller. Pillars are on the ground, the highest pillar called big pillar, where ghosts reside, tourists do not hang clothes, lean against the “soul” pillar. Guests sitting and drinking wine, talking with homeowners do not saying and pointing fingers forward.
Hmong people said that such behavior is expressing an offensive attitude or disregard for people talking to you.
Also, when the owner invite you to drink, drink, if rejecting, the guests should have the verbal dexterity to homeowners to understand, empathize, do not upside down bowl on the table, only the shaman are allowed to do so in order to expel ghosts.
Clothes to wear: the tourists do not wear white linen not dyed yet, that is the color of funerals. Tourists to Sapa do not forget to take a bath with spring water mixed with leaves Red Dao to make skin firmer, healthier and enjoy “thang co” the kitchen, drink corn wine with roasted wild meat.
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