The unique feature of the market that only takes place once a year in Quang Tri is that the local people bring homegrown products to sell to buyers for “luck” so they don’t haggle. Buyers, who want to buy “luck” for good luck at the beginning of the year, don’t bargain…
From the evening of the 2nd to the early morning of the 3rd of the Lunar New Year, the traditional market festival in Bich La village (Trieu Thanh commune, Trieu Phong district, Quang Tri) was bustling with people coming to buy and sell "luck" and offer incense to pray for good luck at the beginning of the year.
The items that local people sell at the market that only meets once a year are mainly green tea leaves...
Money tree
Betel nut, incense, sugarcane.
Bags of salt, clay figurines…
The Bich La communal house fair festival is held at the Bich La Dong communal house area, including the ceremony, the festival and the market, with exciting and meaningful activities such as the scholarship award ceremony, the Kim Quy god worship ceremony; competitions such as wrapping banh chung; bai choi festival...
As the night wore on, the crowd of people flocking to the communal house fair grew larger and larger. The roads leading to the market were bustling with the sounds of vendors inviting customers to buy betel boxes, salt bags, and branches of "lucky" flowers at the beginning of the year.
The unique feature of the market that only opens from the evening of the 2nd to the early morning of the 3rd day of Tet in Quang Tri is that sellers come here to pray for luck and buyers come here to get "luck" at the beginning of the year, so neither sellers nor buyers haggle over prices.
Coming to the communal house market, everyone buys some "luck" for the new year to bring home.
Many tourists and locals come to the communal house fair to stop and "ask" for the first words of the year.
The festival space is bustling with the art performance program of the people of "Ngu Giap Bich La" and the Bai Choi festival.
According to the Organizing Committee, the communal house market, which only meets once a year at the beginning of the year, has become part of the cultural life of the Bich La people and the traditional spring communal house market festival of the Bich La people has become an occasion for people to buy and sell "luck" and offer incense to pray for good luck.
The Golden Turtle God Prayer Ceremony is held with the wish for national peace and prosperity, a year of favorable weather, good crops, and prosperous business...
Video: People and tourists jostle for the market that takes place once a year on the evening of the 2nd and early morning of the 3rd day of Tet in Quang Tri
Source: https://www.baogiaothong.vn/doc-dao-phien-cho-moi-nam-hop-cho-mot-lan-luc-nua-dem-o-quang-tri-19225013109040651.htm
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