Glorious labor in the rice harvest season

Remembering Uncle Ho's teachings in the past: "Labor is a glorious, honorable, joyful and heroic career", the Vietnamese ethnic people, including the Ha Nhin people, always consider labor as glorious, a sacred right and duty, a source of life and happiness for everyone.

The photo collection “Labor is a glorious and glorious career...” by author Duong Quoc Toan includes 10 photos that depict the general landscape and working life of the Black Ha Nhi people in Y Ty commune, Bat Xat district, Lao Cai province. The photo collection was submitted by the author to the Happy Vietnam Photo and Video Contest, organized by the Ministry of Information and Communications.

For generations, the Ha Nhi people have considered upland sticky rice a precious gift from heaven. This "jade food" grain not only helps people avoid hunger but also makes many delicious dishes, used as offerings, and specialties imbued with the identity of the highlands.

Upland rice is grown on steep hills. During harvest season, the Ha Nhi people have to climb passes and follow each field to harvest each full rice flower.

During the rice harvest season, Ha Nhi women carry baskets on their backs and use steel sickles (a cutting tool) to pick and pluck each flower one by one. The rice flowers are bundled together, threshed in the field, or brought home to dry the whole flower for long-term use.

Harvesting upland rice requires meticulousness and effort. Rice pickers must pick each flower one by one, unlike harvesting wet rice, where they can use a sickle to swing it in a curved direction, cutting 15-20 flowers at a time, much faster.

Most of the rice fields are located on steep hillsides, far from residential areas. Therefore, during harvest season, people face many difficulties in cutting rice and transporting it.

Located at an altitude of 2,000m above sea level, Y Ty commune, Bat Xat district, Lao Cai, is the main residence of the Black Ha Nhi people.

Today, the Ha Nhi people always consider labor as glorious, thereby promoting labor to develop the socio-economy according to the content of thoroughly studying and following Ho Chi Minh's ideology, morality and style./.

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