Journalist Vuong Tam has a predestined relationship with Pleiku City thanks to the verses of Ngo Thi Thanh Van in the poem “Nguoi dan ba ben tuong nha mo” (Woman by the grave statue). Artisan K’Sor H’Nao is carving charnel house statues. (Photo: NDO) The grave statues have become places that haunt him whenever he visits the Central Highlands and he was stunned when he saw a big statue beside the communal house of Plei Op Village in Hoa Lu Ward. Mysteries from the charnel-houses Vuong Tam had a chance to enjoy a painting entitled “Le hoi Po Thi” (Po Thi Festival) by painter Le Hung, head of the Vietnam Fine Arts Association’s branch in Gia Lai Province). Hung said “po thi” (abandoning the grave) Festival of the Central Highlands region has caused him to fall in love with this wild land since the 1980s. It aims to make the dead come to the land of gods. The ethnic minority people believe that the heath is not the end the beginning of the cycle of reincarnation in …
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