The custom of bathing the upland in Vietnam

To the northwest, the river Nam Nhe, we can get out of Thailand through features such as still water, vegetation water, spreading inter-religious dances and the endless open water peaceful privacy, where the girls Thai people get into the natural water flow cooling.

It's hard to imagine when on the water gap, the source of Muong Pon, Muong Lay, Muong Te, Lai Chau town lost shadow of Thai girls go "in principle" (carrying water), "Pay voltage years" (come spring)? If so, what other northwestern mountains are no longer the flowers. Thai people take very seriously the water around them and consider it as a product of that sacred divine gift. The activities of the Thai character is associated with the water from pounding rice, food, slaughter and the bathe.
My daughter is very discreet but excellent Thai Giang, Lai Chau, if you are faced with many Thai girls driving tractors to land in a field of Muong Thanh, guide visitors pit sand and foreign exchange transactions for tourists in Dien Bien Phu airport.

A very impressive images are sometimes met a Thai girl dressed for labor and shoulders bare, breasts skirt hung scorpions coming home. Although exposure to fish or carry shovels throw it at about the field they look fine decent clean, charming by cool spring has brought pleasure and beauty of their religion, after a morning of labor.
Starter Muong along each path are buong pipe water from streams and each stream has its own bath station for women - not shielded, but probably has rules: no man would dare to step into world dedicated to women. Previously at bathing, Thai girls usually carry the leaf to water pipes coated buong people - have now been replaced by soap. Length: 3 domain
On a hot afternoon along streams Lay Nam - from Muong Tung stream flows along Muong Lay town of Lai Chau and often met her bathing dress his top team on their first exposure to a cool stream. If you "accidentally" have to cross near the bathroom, they will drop down gradually as the water dress - Scorpion dorsal ashore.
It is ingenious, since the first step to wade into the water springs clear, gradually spreading skirts are raised under foot tapping steps. Surges up to where, skirts are lifted up to it gradually until the entire body are gentle stream surrounds the dress will be located on the head.Clear water flowing gently just enough to make the surface as springs freak waves to prevent the prying eyes of the boys accidentally passing.Sometimes the girls bathing medium can chat with the boys swimming in the nearby open water without fear exposed the secrets of creation given. To the bath, dresses rarely get wet but it was the body pleasure bathe in cool water. Dress to be released gradually to follow in the footsteps of Thai girls up to near-shore and the dress was almost completely cycle regulation, skirts tricky book to be across the chest.
Now the new hair is concerned, the party girl bending springs that rinsing hair, back hair in the fresh waters pure as crystal. Later, when the wave of modern full dress to the Thai village, they keep their habit to bathe the whole person, not a natural building as other peoples around the North West.
Bathing in the Northwest is probably a daughter of art that Thai people are learning right from the start that nestled close blushing. Physical beauty leg, in the morning to the holiness of the Thai girls have become the subject and endless inspiration as well as making life for many poems, songs, music, painting ...
Many farm writing poetry, songs such as: Moving into love - (in case Thai people), Me wife, I bathe, rivers and streams are set to praise the beauty of Thai girls. Poem of the Silver Em Van iron bath, Thai people, was voted as one of 100 best poems of the twentieth century:Why did the spyTheft watch me showerI feel free of the white skinThe skin of the mother, the fatherChild's hands blurHand of coal dustHands of the mountain forestsHands of the land of refugeI clean the showerStill fragrant floral flower forestI feel free of the white skinAs all of youNo stranger toThe thieves see whatI visualized spring betweenBathing in the act of loveThere he stood holdingDo not let the West to visualize
Elsewhere: Thai at Tu Le (Yen Bai) today remains the traditional definition of living souls Xiuli stream course and become fairies between heaven and earth.
Travelers to the bathroom here also, the boys also allowed public baths, the harmony between nature fun, rest or relaxation. But absolutely must keep a distance and not have bad behavior, or they will be left and the right of punishment.
Not only in the Northwest that in many upland areas, both in the Central Highlands: naked women still bare spring after the hard labor on the field. In many places in the afternoon session, dozens of women out painting work tools on large boulders and innocent as the air vent of clothes. The exposed skin painted white women feel free to sit on a rock, brandishing feet underwater thrill laughing, making great scene becomes murky thousand beautiful as a fairy tale, it made a natural masterpiece paintings. From a distance everything is a blur before the eyes, only the skin of the woman is painted wild scenes stand out from the short-skelter in the shade of sunset ... that stream old, had become taciturn shimmering, magical. If a stranger happened to appear, the wife and female painted clothing beneath the water or hide behind the rocks.
 

<The scrutiny of the city ...Civilization today had to take the remote villages plus the prying eyes of the plains that many customs and practices of the people lost, which, to spring and a very fast tomorrow.


But also: the plains of curiosity, staring eyes dilated and photography community popular with the little line debating or cough.
The very momentum of the region has made today's more discreet, more to avoid the shower first. Now, find a stream, where the young women in pearls and emeralds psychiatry in cooling waters gradually rare.Maybe spring has contributed to national cultural identity to be conserved. After all, eliminate vulgar thought, perhaps "first bath" is the best approach to human harmony with nature most fully, one bathroom that is not naked?
In the city: people crowded together so closely home in an apartment full of toilet facilities, kitchen to the bathroom ... place it between the vast mountain minorities: the bathroom is a clear stream flowing from the top like a fully equipped bathroom between unspoiled natural grandeur?
<Bathing not only in the Northwest that has diversified in Nghia Lo, Tu Le ...
If you appreciate traditional customs, that if the eyes see things as art, the beauty that the source of the Northwest, the Central Highlands in a way the woman bathing her first painting, you will see ourselves in the morning, bar higher as heaven and earth mingle with the legends of the region.