The Tày people were present in Vietnam very early, possibly from the second half of the first millennium BC. The Tày people who are agricultural residents have a tradition of cultivating water, have long known for intensive cultivation and widely applied irrigation measures such as digging ditches, building gutters, fading, and plowing to irrigate fields. They had a custom of throwing rice paddies in the fields on wooden troughs which they called scum and then used the rooster to carry rice home. In addition to wet rice, the Tay also cultivate dry rice, vegetables, fruit trees, etc. Livestock has been developed with many types of cattle and poultry, but free-grazing is still common. The family handicrafts are noticed. The most famous is brocade weaving with many beautiful and unique patterns. Market is an important economic activity. The Tay's traditional costumes are made from self-woven cotton fabric, dyed indigo, hardly embroidered, decorated. Women wear skirts or pants, with short blouses on the inside and long dresses on the outside. The Ngan group wears a slightly shorter coat, the Phens group wears a brown shirt, the Thu Lao group wears a scarf to the tip of the head, Pa Di group wears a roof-top hat, and the Tho group wears like the Thai in Mai Chau (Hoa Binh). .