Coming to the Northwest, especially Mu Cang Chai, Yen Bai, in mid-August, visitors will feel the golden color present throughout the Northwest highlands. The terraced fields here are waiting for a golden season with breathtakingly beautiful rice waves, making visitors from all over want to immerse themselves in the sea of ​​rice to have poetic experiences about the beauty of the Northwest golden season. Every autumn, the terraced fields of ethnic minorities in Mu Cang Chai bustle to welcome a new season, the season of ripe rice. These masterpieces of cultural heritage have woven golden seasons in the highlands. Waves of rice stretch out endlessly. The terraced fields in the highlands are always a tourist destination for domestic and foreign tourists. Every year, around the end of August and the beginning of September of the lunar calendar, when the weather is cold, the sunlight shines down on the ripe rice fields in Mu Cang Chai, signaling a bumper harvest season. On the terraced fields, there are occasionally small houses for the Mong people to cultivate rice, or warehouses for the Red Dao people to store rice... adding beauty to the terraced fields on the mountainside, creating a vivid autumn picture. After the watering season and the planting season, the rice ripening season is eagerly awaited by many photographers to take pictures. Even though there are many people who, every year when the rice harvest season comes, carry their backpacks and cameras to Lao Cai, they still do not get bored. Every time waiting for the rice ripening season is a strange excitement. Standing and observing from afar, the golden terraced fields look like a silk carpet with the sweet scent of ripe rice mixed in the wind. In 2024, the Photo and Video Contest "Happy Vietnam - Happy Vietnam" continues to be organized by the Ministry of Information and Communications in coordination with the Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists on the website   https://happy.vietnam.vn is open to all Vietnamese citizens and foreigners aged 15 and over. The contest aims to honor individuals and groups with positive information products, making practical contributions to the propaganda and promotion of a beautiful image of Vietnam to the world. Thereby helping people in the country, compatriots abroad and international friends access authentic images of the country, Vietnamese people, Vietnam's achievements in ensuring human rights, towards a happy Vietnam. Each contest category (photo and video) has the following prizes and prize values: - 01 Gold Medal: 70,000,000 VND - 02 Silver Medals: 20,000,000 VND - 03 Bronze Medals: 10,000,000 VND - 10 Encouragement Prizes: 5,000,000 VND - 01 most voted work: 5,000,000 VND The winning authors will be invited by the Organizing Committee to attend the Award Ceremony and Award Ceremony and Certificate on live television of Vietnam Television.

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