Come to Pu Luong in September to see the Thai people's "pregnant rice plants"

In Thai, “Man Khau” means pregnant rice, the time when the rice is growing ears and waiting for the golden harvest day. Coinciding with the first 3 weeks of September, when you come to Pu Luong at this time, you will see the rice on the terraced fields still green, but in fact, it has already grown ears and can be harvested around the end of September, beginning of October.

Each rice season in Pu Luong has its own charm. September is the scent of green rice mixed with the atmosphere of Independence Day where the winding roads down to the village are decorated with national flags.

This September, when you come to Pu Luong, you will also encounter an exhibition about rice plants at this time, the "Man Khau" exhibition, with the participation of the Don people, Pu Luong. The exhibition takes place from September 9 to September 30, 2025 at the Pu Luong Cultural House, Don village. The 06 exhibition spaces tell the story of the life of rice plants through the periods: from seeds soaked in water to germination, sowing, care, growing, flowering, graining to harvest day. Each step is a visual experience, where light, shape and material suggest the quiet movement of life of highland rice plants associated with the cultural life of the Thai people here.

Familiar objects in the lives of Thai people in Pu Luong, Thanh Hoa are artistically recreated in space, such as the basket containing sticky rice, the wishing bamboo sticks in the seed soaking pot, the cleaned farming tools displayed to thank heaven and earth on the new rice celebration, next to the decorative brocade motifs...

The exhibition is part of the project to preserve rice culture in Pu Luong, accompanied by Youth4Climate - an initiative of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Italian Ministry of Environment & Energy Security, the implementing unit of the Magnolia project and with the direct participation of the community of Don village, Pu Luong.

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