Vietnam market is probably formed from the founding of the country, according to legend from the time of Hung Vuong, Vietnamese people know how to exchange and trade with foreign countries, the market is a place to exchange goods and products between different communities . Along with the history of the nation's history, Vietnam Market also bears a strong cultural stamp.

The market is a charming place
People come to the market not only to exchange products and search for their essential products, but also to meet, exchange information and affection. When it comes to love markets, people think of the markets of ethnic minorities in the North. Bac Ha fair is considered one of the 10 most attractive markets in Southeast Asia probably because of this unique feature. Since Lao Cai province was established, Bac Ha market was established in Chau Bac Ha. Since then, Bac Ha Market has only held one session a week on Sunday, it is not only a place to buy and sell like other markets but it is also a place for cultural exchange between ethnic groups. in the Northwest region.

Bac Ha Market is a place for exchanging local goods with goods outside the province, divided into small characteristic markets such as brocade market, food market, horse market, poultry market, food market, bird market, blacksmith market ... Each market is rich in diversity and brings local ethnic colors. But now the goods on sale are not only local goods, but also goods from many other places, most of which are still Chinese goods. But what makes the attraction of Bac Ha Fair is not only located there, each Bac Ha fair is also a place to meet and exchange among peoples in the region. After each week of work, ethnic minorities go down the mountain again, they wear colorful dresses and treat it as a festival, boys and girls consider it as a once-for-a-moment meeting. Happy old people visiting friends, Young people have the opportunity to interact with and make friends with the opposite sex. A special feature is that people make friends in the language of Khèn, Sáo ... which contain the feelings they want to confess. The cultural colors of Bac Ha fair have created its attraction and vitality.

Besides Bac Ha market, the northern mountainous region of Vietnam also attracts visitors with many other markets with local characteristics such as: Lang market or found in Cao Bang, Bac Can, Lang Son. It was originally a love-exchange song of the Tay, Nung and Thai people, hardly traded. Shopping is mainly to meet, give love, give love. Ha Giang ethnic minorities have a fair associated with a fairy tale of love, which is Khau Vai love market: Girls and boys of two different races, due to the curse of the clan , they can't be together. But love gave them courage, they went to this high mountain to swear to life forever and die together. And the 23rd of the lunar calendar each year becomes the HMong's Valentine's Day with a unique dating market.

Market is a place to buy risk

 Vietnam market, in addition to satisfying shopping preferences is also a way to learn the indigenous cultural identity of each region, region and market associated with spiritual culture. Fair of Yin Yang (Am Phu market) in O village, Vo Giang, Bac Ninh, the market meets once a year on the night of January 4 to the morning of January 5 of the lunar calendar. According to legend, this place was once a battlefield, with many martyrs. The market is open to the naked people to have the opportunity to talk, good luck, bless ... The market meets at night but no one is lighting the lights, goods only have paper money, votive, fruits, betel nut, aroma ... All both laid on the ground lined with dried banana leaves. No haggling, no loud talking, no counting money ... In addition, if anyone goes to the market to ask for something, he or she must bring a black chicken to worship the Imperial City Óng village. While waiting for the sun to rise, the people from the market invited to eat betel nut, sing mandarin, drink water ...

Known by many people in the O village is Cho Goi, Vu Ban, Nam Dinh, a lucky market located near Phu Giay, a place to worship Lieu Hanh, one of the Vietnamese "immortal fathers". Vieng market meets only on January 8 of the lunar calendar every year. The market is a gathering place for products of traditional craft villages from forging, casting, carving, carving, embroidery, knitting ... metals, ceramics, wooden items, worship items from all regions and regions in the South. North. In addition, this is also a place to sell ornamental plants, delicious fruit varieties of the regions. In particular, this market also sells second hand goods, things that seem to be unusable. In this fair market, the seller never talks and the buyer does not bargain - a lovely beauty that only this market has. It seems that the buying and selling here carries a certain spiritual sense - that people only need to sell or buy something even very small, the seller and the seller will have good luck, and both sides. are all happy and happy to go home. Therefore, the Vieng fair in the past was also called Cau May market.

Visitors to the fair mostly came from the reputation of Vieng market, but most of them are people who have roots or hometowns in the southern province, who work far away and miss the ancestral land and the country. For them to return to the market is to return to the unique cultural features of the homeland as well as return to the sacred soul of the nation.


Market season water up

 Vietnam Market - a unique cultural beauty. Each region and each region has a distinctive beauty. If in the North with the mountainous markets with ethnic characteristics of the upland, then come to the South, which is famous for the Floating markets, the wet season markets with means and exchange of goods on boats.

Floating markets are a type of market often appearing in water areas which are considered as the main transport routes. Where both seller and buyer use boats / boats as means of transportation and transportation. Locations with floating markets are often in river sections that are neither too wide nor too narrow. The river must be relatively wide, neither too shallow nor too deep. If the river is too deep, too big, it is impossible to anchor easily and dangerously.

With 700km of coastline, 28,000km of canals (70% of the length of the country's river), for ages, speaking of the Mekong Delta, it is impossible not to mention the three-seater boat. For the residents of the river, the trio is not only a means of transportation but also a mobile home, with them covered with oil and rain. Over the years, a fishing boat community gradually formed, focusing on living, trading, exchanging goods at the intersection of rivers and ... floating markets, becoming a typical feature of the Southwest region. .

to Cai Be Floating Market and Can Tho Floating Market. Cai Be floating market (Tien Giang) is one of the two famous floating markets in the southwest of Vietnam (Phung Hiep - Can Tho floating market and Cai Be - Tien Giang floating market), dating back to the 18th century. The market is located at the border between 3 provinces of Vinh Long, Ben Tre and Tien Giang, where was formed by Tan Phong islet, formerly Con Cu, in Dinh Vien Chau, Long Ho Palace (composed of 6 lovely islands. has a total area of ​​2,430 ha).

Like many Vietnamese markets, floating market goods are diverse, from fresh food, local fruit specialties ... Unlike each stall can move anytime, anywhere. In particular, when going to the floating market, you will come across a rather unique form of marketing of goods: whoever sells anything, places a pole on the bow of the boat and hangs the product that he wants to sell on that pole to invite customers. also known as "pinch line". Therefore, the market does not have the sound of a market like the shore market, but if there is a listing, the sound of the waves and the engine of the ship will drown out. ", at least a dozen", the goods exchanged back and forth juggling on boats together. Floating markets often meet all day, but crowded especially in the morning when the climate is still quite cool. 

Along the length of the S-shaped strip of land, you will find interesting things everywhere, from the love market on the remote mountains, to the lucky market only once a year in the early spring, or Water market markets of the Mekong Delta all resonate and harmonize to contribute to the cultural and historical thickness of the nation. This is not only a story of Vietnam Market, but also a story of Vietnamese Culture and People.