VNN – Update: December, 12/2021 – 10:24|

WOMEN AT WORK: Bản Liền ladies roofing a house with fresh palm leaves. Photo Nam Nguyễn
By Nguyễn Mỹ Hà
It’s been nearly a month since Hà and Thông decided to replace their stilt house’s cement roof with traditional and more eco-friendly palm leaves.
Husband Hà and wife Thông form an ethnic Tày household in Bản Liền Commune of Bắc Hà District in northwest Lào Cai Province. When people refer to them they call out their names together Hà-Thông.
It is late in the afternoon twilight, and two rows of Tày women clad in traditional black tunics with colourful headscarves and waistbands are tying leaves to bamboo bars on the roof under the watchful eye of a master roof-maker.
Tiếp tục đọc “Tày women of Bản Liền fix roof while sun shines”