Meeting only once a year, Hang Luoc flower market has a special taste that is a traditional culture and a place to recreate the beautiful memories of tens of thousands of people in Hanoi capital.

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Hang Luoc Flower Market is more than 500 years old

Every year, from December the 23rd to the 30th of the Lunar year, Hang Luoc flower market begins to welcome the rush of people shopping for the Tet holiday. Hang Luoc flower market is getting busier and busier day by day, but there is a rare quietness of the thousand-year-old capital in that noisy atmosphere.

Hang Luoc Street has existed for more than 500 years, this is a street of producing combs. But until the beginning of the 20th century, the comb-making here began to disappear, but instead, houses began to grow close, and trade items became more diverse.

The hundred-year-old street has also begun to change, but one thing that never changes is Hang Luoc flower market was still held on the days leading up to Tet. From the beginning until now, through many centuries, this flower market has never stopped holding annually even one time. Hang Luoc flower market is known as the oldest flower market in Vietnam.

When the Tet holiday is coming, people in the capital are eager to go to Hang Luoc flower market to enjoy the cheerful and bustling atmosphere and buy a variety of lovely and diverse items for the Tet that are sold in this market.

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Where is Hang Luoc flower market?

Hang Luoc flower market stretches through the following streets: Hang Luoc street, Hang Chai street, Hang Ruoi street, Hang Ma street and Hang Dong streets. This market began to be dotted with buyers and sellers from the morning of the 23rd and was crowded and bustling until New Year's Eve.

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What does Hang Luoc flower market sell?

Hang Luoc flower market used to be the gathering place of the freshest flowers, the most beautiful peach blossom and kumquat branches in Hanoi, which are from famous flower villages such as Ngoc Ha, Tu Lien, Nghi Tam, Nhat Tan, Quang Ba...

Currently, the goods sold at Hang Luoc flower market mainly include peach blossom branches, Nhat Tan peach trees, kumquat trees, daffodils, chrysanthemums, dahlias, ornamental plants, purple violets, orchid, tulip, yellow apricot blossom...

Along with fresh flowers, ornamental plants, here also sell a variety of items to serve the Tet holiday such as home decorations, household items, food, toys...

With the connection of Phung Hung Mural Street, Hang Luoc flower market is also a place for people to come and buy other traditional folk products such as Dong Ho paintings, Tet couplets...

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The hobby of joining to Hang Luoc flower market of Hanoi people

Any Hanoian has more or fewer memories with Hang Luoc flower market. Many people might go to the market not because they want to buy something, but just to feel the traditional Tet atmosphere of the nation with its own ancient style of old Hanoi.

Go to the market, you can not rush, hustle, push, but have to be really patient, go slowly and watch. From time to time, they would swoop into a roadside stall, watch, pay the price, and then bring it home if they agree with it. Therefore, even though it is sometimes a bit cramped and congested, people do not appear to be uncomfortable with that.

Today's Hang Luoc Flower Market is also connected with the heritage space of Phung Hung mural street, providing more entertainment space to discover about the nation's traditional Tet for those who go to Hang Luoc flower market not only for shopping but also for sightseeing and walking.

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Source: Collected