Not many people remember that rice flower has its proud name of Po lang flower. Hoa Po Lang with sunshine and wind in the Central Highlands is generous …

Flower rice, the name sounds rustic, gentle, honest, but very … cute. The rice flower in the salty and sad song of musician Tran Tien is the flower of childhood, of the peaceful countryside, of dating couples and of the couple’s neglect.

To me, rice flowers only exist on the page about the rural areas in the North, but also associated with four-body shirts, sports hats, red bibs with words that they are indulging in love.

Later, in order to date each other to find the rice flower season, the children only thought of the Northern Delta countryside. Not many people remember that the rice flower has its proud name of Po lang flower. Hoa Po lang with sunshine and wind in the Central Highlands is generous as in the song:

Hey Central Highlands! …. eh … eh. How many flowers in the forest … Which petals are the most beautiful in the forest … remember the most beautiful Po-lang petals in the Central Highlands forest  (Duc Minh). 

Remember to search and so we set out to find the rice flower in memory. We started from Da Nang at 9am, expected to follow Google map only 80 km by road 14 B to West Quang Nam through Thanh My through Sky Gate towards Ha Tan, Dai Lanh, Dai Loc just to find Ms. Po lang in March. 

According to the guide, this road in previous years blooming rice flowers along the way to Thanh Nien village to establish A Vuong career. A lot of old Po lang stumps were lost when the road was formed, only to see the wild Po lang trees in the distance, too far out of reach. Po lang trees are grown on the wide fields along the mountainside and the way to get closer is very dangerous, we chose to stand and watch from a distance.

Hoa Po lang truly deserves the name of the queen of the mountains and forests because of its colorful flowers, proud between heaven and earth, and cannot be mixed with any flowers. Photo: LƯU BÌNH

The car drove along the mountain, but the sister and the group had caught up with no trees just because the deep color was like an exploding cut in the sky of the arc mountain road mixed with clouds. 

Near the end of the road, we thought we could only watch the flowers from afar, but fortunately to Ha Tan, Dai Lanh, Dai Loc, we caught the proud Po-lang by the unique bridge, the only road through the village to the town. Ai Nghia town. 

First time watching flowers very close to know the flowers as big as an adult’s hand. The flowers are muscular, thick and fat in their hands, full of vitality, although they have fallen, not knowing that the flowers have two colors, an earth orange and a crimson red.

The tree on the Ha Tan bridge is crimson, as if it could not be more crimson. The flowers have fallen a lot and the buds are still full and bright on the side of the road. The flowers are still in bloom for a few weeks so hopefully still have a chance to enjoy.

Along the wind, dust on the bridge tossing flowers I also wish to introduce readers to readers near our hometown with the proud Po Lang flower, which is no less proud than the Northern Delta rice flower girl. 

For the first time I met flowers, romantic tables, flowers with the color of burning fire and longing as reminiscent of a youth …

Some pictures of Po lang flowers: