As the 7th largest ethnic group in Vietnam, the Nung ethnic group currently has more than 1 million people, scattered in 63 provinces and cities, but most concentrated in the mountainous provinces of the North and Northeast such as : Lang Son, Cao Bang, Bac Can, Thai Nguyen, Bac Giang, Tuyen Quang... The Nung ethnic group has a long history of development and still retains many unique cultural customs and habits, enriching themselves. added cultural identity of the ethnic groups of Vietnam. The Nung ethnic group resides in many different areas and is divided into branch systems such as: Nung Xuong, Nung Giang, Nung An, Nung Loi, Nung Phan Sinh, Nung Chao, and Nung. Inh, Nung Quy Rin, Nung Din. The Nung people often live in villages, each village usually has 30-70 roofs.Usually, in front of the village is a paddy field, behind the village is a field and an orchard. The houses of the Nung people mainly include traditional stilt houses and land houses, in addition, there are also half-stilts and half-land houses. Houses of the Nung people are usually quite big, wide and roofed with trough tiles. The house is divided into two parts by wooden partitions. The inner part is the kitchen, where the women live in the family, the outer part is for men and places the ancestral altar. Not as colorful as some other ethnic groups, the costumes of the Nung are quite simple, the costumes are usually made of raw cloth dyed indigo and there is almost no embroidery or decoration. Men wear a stand-up collar, slit chest, button-down, and usually have four or two pockets. Women wear five-piece tops, buttoned on the side, decorated by adding colored cloth to the cuffs and front of the chest. The Nung people take rice cultivation as their main source of livelihood. The natural form of gathering economy is still prominent in the Nung ethnic community. Women going to the forest, going to the fields often wear a small basket with them to collect wild vegetables, mushrooms, wood ear... to enrich their daily meals. Nguyen Van The, a guide at the Cultural Village of Vietnam's Ethnic Minorities, said: “The Nung people are also very adept in exploiting land for swidden cultivation, terraced fields, and rice-growing plains. water. In addition to the main food source of rice, the Nung also grow other agricultural products such as maize, cassava, cash crops, industrial plants, perennial fruit trees, in which, in particular, plants of economic value must be mentioned. such as: Hoi, Que, Anise, Sa Nhan... The Nung are also good at breeding, creating many breeds of high economic value such as the famous Muong Khuong pig, Cao Bang horse".
