Wild peach blossoms attract visitors ahead of Lunar New Year Festival

Saturday, 16:48, 07/01/2023

VOV.VN - With just two weeks to go until the Year of the Cat, National Highway 6 in Moc hHau plateau in the mountainous province of Son La has been flooded with the pinkish hue of wild peach blossoms.

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wild peach blossoms attract visitors ahead of lunar new year festival picture 1 — Forest peach trees, which typically grow in the forests of the northern highlands, prove particularly popular due to their wild beauty.

wild peach blossoms attract visitors ahead of lunar new year festival picture 2 — As the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday fast approaches, many street markets in Son La are currently selling forest peach blossoms.

wild peach blossoms attract visitors ahead of lunar new year festival picture 3 — Many lowland traders from Hai Phong and Hanoi arrive in the area to collect the forest peach trees.

wild peach blossoms attract visitors ahead of lunar new year festival picture 4 — Mu A Tang, an ethnic Mong man, hacks off a branch of a tree in his garden. "Selling peach blossoms is the main source of my family’s income during Tet,” he says.

wild peach blossoms attract visitors ahead of lunar new year festival picture 5 — According to him, the wild peach blossom trees can cost from several hundreds of thousand up to several million Vietnam Dong (VND), depending on their shape and age. Indeed, large trees which come in good shapes and are covered in moss are usually more expensive.

wild peach blossoms attract visitors ahead of lunar new year festival picture 6 — For those familiar with tending wild peach blossom trees, they must have qualities such as being rough-looking trees with young buds.

wild peach blossoms attract visitors ahead of lunar new year festival picture 7 — The peach blossom symbolises the strength and vitality of the peach trees, whilst their colour is believed to bring luck, love, and joy to people in the coming year.