This festival is formed from difficult life practices, and is held in the spring of every year when bitter mango shoots up the soil, when the tree "gilded" in the forest blooms red gold.

The La Ha ethnic group, whose population is not large, mainly settles in Son La-Lai Chau, in Son La there are only a few thousand but scattered in three districts in the North, along the Da River are Muong La, Quynh Nhai and Thuan Chau. , life is difficult because only cultivating in the fields. During the 8th National Assembly's term, La Ha-bachelor Lo Thi Nu was elected as a member of the National Assembly by her voter when she was Deputy Director of the Bank for the Poor, now the main bank. Son La social books.

The people of La Ha Tay Bac still keep their typical cultural features, every year there are still typical festivals, including the "Flower-and-Bamboo-Shoot" festival (Pang-A-Nuu ban), simple and inexpensive. imply many meanings.
This festival is formed from difficult life practices, and is held in the spring of every year when bitter mango shoots up the soil, when the tree "gilded" in the forest blooms red gold. Both of these two types are the precious "medicinal herbs" used by indigenous healers in the past to "save the human world" for the villagers, when modern medical activities were not available, life was based on many experiences. to find medicine to cure, form a team of healers from normal to serious diseases.

The first festival of bamboo shoots and bamboo shoots is to express gratitude and gratitude to traditional healers for their public health, the second is to "summarize" healers' ability to cure diseases, then to pass on the way of worship. ancestors for descendants. The festival is also the beginning of spring and the new year, there is not much work in the field, there is no work in the field, so that the descendants and relatives in the upper Muong meet to exchange culture and arts, together to preserve the cultural capital of the people. and receive the culture of other ethnic groups in the area.

Bamboo Shoot Festival held before the full moon day of the spring in the three months of the spring with the voluntary participation of the sick patients healed by the healer, the festival opening day decided by the healer is informed to the village the village is near and far, the local government is known.

 The healer is the person in charge of preparing the festival on the procedures, the kinds of animals needed in the festival, the decorative forest flowers and other necessary tools, to be held at the healers' house.

When the offerings were made, the healer allowed his adopted children to come to the ceremony to invite the deities that the La Ha people protected for the everlasting La Ha people, so that they could have the strength like the Tiger God-Son Son to overcome all wild animals. , protect the life for the villagers. The hedgehog is an earth god, it must be offered to give sympathy, so that it does not destroy rice bites; Must invite to eat it will protect the fruits of their labor, long life, solid as a big rock. As a cuckoo-god of the birds who eat rice in the fields, they must offer it to protect upland rice for themselves. Lastly, we worship the cang coi, a forest animal as big as a cat. Every ethnic group in the mountainous area is afraid so we have to worship it so that it will not disturb people's health.

When the gods were finished, the healer performed the games he had cured for "patients". He pretended to be a goiter when tying a rice bowl to his neck. He acted as a lame, a silly person, the image of people going to the field to swing on a pole, howling chasing birds, and quail quitting the house. Finally, he pretended to be a monkey, he crawled around a tree in the middle of the house. ears, scratching his stomach, sometimes dancing, grabbing corn. A gunshot, he pretended to die, many laughter praised the marksman.
When the healer's solo performance ended, the villagers immediately came into the dance "sang bu", a unique dance of the La Ha people, bustling with vigor, the props were just a bamboo tube that fell onto the board in rhythm. " acrid acrobatic, acrobatic, "when the hands are swinging backwards, sometimes the two bamboo pipes are tilted to the left, tilted to the right, dancing passionately, especially dancing women are very flexible, strong and flexible. This dance has been staged in many places by professional "literary" groups, which have been welcomed by foreign audiences since the liberation of the Northwest.

After increasing bu, there are plowing, plowing, rain, towel dance, sword dance and drum dance. Finally, the dance "A horned horn", a unique dance in many mountainous areas, although in the form that seems vulgar, but comes from the reality of the life was too old, the problem of infertility. very popular, La Ha people think of having to worship "penis" in hopes that the Ha Ha children and grandchildren will have a square child.

La Ha bamboo shoots festival still exists today, the ceremony is to thank heaven and earth, ancestors, mountains and rivers always bless their children and grandchildren to make, the festival is exciting and fun. Although there are some limitations, but it still shows the special customs, culture and beliefs that are different from other ethnic groups in the area. The festival is healthy, fun, a chance to meet the people of a large scale to review the tradition, exchange information on business and healing experiences to develop together with 11 other ethnic groups. Son La area.