Cat Cat village in Sapa

From Sa Pa town center is only 2 km to the Cat. It is the oldest of the Mongolian preserved traditional handicrafts such as cotton, linen and textiles crafted jewelry. Especially this place pretty much remains its unique traditions in other regions that have no, or no longer exists in original.

Through the looms, the Mongolian create colorful panels and brocade patterns simulated trees, leaves, flowers, animals … Stages associated with cotton weaving, dyeing and linen is embroidered in flowers, is popular indigo dyeing techniques, water staining and green ash forest herbs. Dyed fabric was finished by polishing with cloth rolled round logs on flat stones bees wax.

In the village of Cat Cat, craft crafted silver jewelry, and has longstanding and create sophisticated products. The process of the silver includes several stages. First, they take some money into the pot on the bellows heater until melted, then poured into the trough. Wait to cool retrieved using silver hammer, forging silver bars so that the size of large, small, long, short, square, triangular, round, flat or spun. Next, their filings for real smooth, and if necessary, use nails to decorate carved, creating patterns or surface and then bend the product. Finally, the labeling step, as white and shiny. Silver carving products in Cat Cat are plentiful, especially conscious women’s jewelry such as necklaces, bracelets, bar area, ring …

One thing attractions when the Mongolian Cat is still kept here quite a lot of unique traditions, such as to pull his wife. As her son knew and fell in love with a girl, he will hold to have invited friends and ask you to plan “pull” her home in an unexpected way, keep her for three days. Then, if she agrees to his wife, the boys will carry out formal wedding. If she refused to drink the cup of wine together they make friends and everything returned to normal without anything happening. Mongolian wedding in Cat Cat are usually held from 2 to 7 days.

Architecture of Mongolia Cat Cat village also shares many features: the three-po mu wood roof. The frame house has three columns horizontal truss. The columns are listed on the round or square stones. Walls are roofed with timber, with three doors: the door in the nave, two doors on either side of the house. Doors are always closed, only open when the big wedding, funeral offerings that on holidays. In the worship space, floor guard reserve food, sleeping, kitchen and a reception desk.

Cat Cat village is formed from the mid-19th century, the residence of households by mode of collective security: based on slopes and gather together, the roof separated by a few dozen meters. They grow rice on terraced fields, planting corn on the mountain by hand cultivation methods, the low yield. Most houses are simple, just a desk, a bed and cooking stove …