Cat Cat village in Sapa

Location: Cat Cat Village Sapa district, Lao Cai province, the center of Sapa town 2km.
Characteristics: Cat Cat Village is the oldest of Mongolia, preserved many traditional crafts such as cotton, linen, woven fabrics and crafted jewelry. Especially here still retain many unique customs in other regions do not have, or do not exist in original.
Through these looms, Mongolia create colorful brocade panels and patterns simulating the tree, leaves, flowers, animals ... Associated with cotton textile stages, linen is embroidered stitching dyeing and printing literature, popular technique is dyed indigo-dyed water and green ash forest herbs. Fabrics dyed polished by rolling fabric with round logs on flat stones with bees wax.

In the village of Cat Cat, craft crafted silver jewelry, copper has long-standing and create sophisticated products. The process of the silver includes several stages. First of all, they give money to the pot on the bellows heater until melted, then poured into the trough. Wait while silver hammer used cools removed, forged so that the size of a silver bar, small, long, short, square, triangle, round, flat or spun. Next, they filings for real smooth, and if necessary, use nail decoration for carving, creating floating or submersible pattern before bending of products. Finally sanding steps, whitening and ball. Silver products in Cat Cat touches very rich, is the most delicate women's jewelry such as necklaces, bracelets, integrated wire bar, rings ...

An attractive visiting Mongolia Cat is here still retain plenty of unique traditions, such as the continuous drag wife. When sons knew and fell in love with a girl, he will hold as she invited friends and because of you planning "pull" the girl home in an unexpected way, holding her for three days. Then, if the girl agreed to marry the guy they will conduct an official ceremony. If she refused, they together drank a bowl of wine to you and everything back to normal as there is not what happens. Hmong weddings Cat usually held from 2 to 7 days.

Architecture buildings Cat Cat village H'mong many antique features: the three space pơmu roofing plywood. The chassis can house rafter three horizontal columns. The columns are listed on round or square stone. Walls are covered with timber, with 3 doors: the main door in the nave, two side doors at both ends of the house. The main door is always closed, open only when there are big things such as weddings, funerals, worship ghosts on holidays. In the space of worship, food stored attic floor, where the bedrooms, kitchen and living places.

Cat Cat Village is formed from the mid 19th century, the residence of households by mode of confidential files: based on the mountainside and gather together, the roof a few dozen meters apart. They grow rice on terraced fields, growing maize on the mountain farming method handmade, low output. Most houses are simple, only a table, a bed and cooking stove ...