Monday 30 January 2012

Professionals "soul" for the wood statue - hanoi vietnam

Nguyen Van Truc, the Rural Human Hien Hien Giang province, Thuong Tin, Hanoi Vietnam, the artist carved wooden Buddha reputation. The Buddha because he had been manipulated in many pagodas, temples and at home and abroad.
Largest wooden statue
Hien Village People is a land has many talented carpenters in the architecture of buildings, building palaces, temples and pagodas ... Historically, the definition of carpentry talent has made the reputation of carpenter village famous throughout the capital city, people had been invited to the Ly dynasty business, work together to build the capital city of Thang Long flowering.
Born into a family with traditional carved wood, 20-year-old Nguyen Van Truc start learning and studying wood carving with the skilled workers in the village Hanoi.
Learning by doing 10 years from 1978 to 1988, Nguyen Van Truc has many valuable experiences. Nguyen Van Truc, while learning, reference, to collect opinions of customers and other cultural studies.
He regularly went to temples to see the statues, learn the basic characteristics, the cultural values ​​underlying the Buddha statues to the regulations, each bearing a statue to its own value.
In 1989, Nguyen Van Truc with you in starting a business family. Artisan Nguyen Van Truc want to build a brand associated with upper and lower Quang Tin.
Prestige is reflected in the quality of products, besides compliance with the prototype, each statue must have cultural values ​​and art history, just how "not only the audience," but in the also has a "life" to attract viewers ...
Chu Quang is the clarity of mind. When the pure soul, love my job attitude and respect for their work product, the new workers are "predestined" to touch the sharp mental state of the statue, blowing the soul of the character of the wood itself. "
Shakyamuni Buddha statue in the temple placed the Red (Hai Phong) carved by artisans Bamboo is considered a large wooden statue of Buddha in Vietnam. The statue has a height of 8.4 m wide by 6m. To accomplish this work, artists Truc and 10 minor workers processed within 10 months, 60 timber-consuming meetings.
Reconstruct the face of the Mac King 5
Currently, Bamboo artist is embarking manipulated the five kings ruled the Mac first country in Thang Long. This is the order of the Council of the Mac family and cultural, sports and tourism in Hai Phong.
The finished statue will be placed the power in the Memorial of the monarch, the Mac is built on the old regional economic Ocean (now paragraph commune, Kien Thuy district, Hai Phong). This is great work towards celebration of 1,000 years of Thang Long-Hanoi's Hai Phong City People.
Indeed, so far no official statues of the kings of the time the Mac. To overcome this difficulty, Truc artists along with their descendants and other Mac professionals of cultural, sports and tourism in Hai Phong, to go to discuss unification.
Bamboo artisans along with their minor workers were up five statues of clay according to size, creating lines, costumes, thrones in the documents available. Bamboo artisan skills learned behavior, demeanor of each emperor through the materials used to sculpt each stroke the Mac King became true "is god." In addition, he also refer to the flower pattern text, while the Mac vignette from a research specialist court costumes of the feudal dynasty in Hanoi Vietnam.
Artisan said: "Many sleepless nights I had to think, imagine trying to do well up to the character, spirit and kings face each time both the Mac culture ..."
Apply wood carvings on the nerve
In addition to the methods of traditional carvings, Nguyen Van Truc also dig into the application of wood carving nerve areas. If drawing and expressing nerve, a mechanic can repair nerve but with carved the other hand, only a small mistake is enough to make the statue of the logs removed.
From direct photographs, the artist must have the imagination to shape lines, deep heat, thickness of the characters, in addition they also need a special sensitivity and a love for his character the new sculpt is the person's mental state.
It is "another person" is Bamboo artisans carved nerve only at night by the time he concentrated most sense for each tunnel that is not dominated by others.
One of the pictures Bamboo nerve fully agree that most artists are portraits of the First French master Buddhist Church of Vietnam, Thich Duc Peter (1897-1993), the statue by the Venerable Thich Tam Hoan, the abbot Chew Hoe temple place and be completed in about 50 nights. The statue in the temple is an Chew Hoe (Hanoi), where the Venerable Thich Duc Nhuan been abbot before he passed away.
Currently, the base of artisan Nguyen Van Truc always from 15 to 20 students are children of the school and local jobs. When each student to reach his or acquire additional experience will bring happiness in him.
"To conserve, preserve and promote the traditional craft is the most practical expression of love for the land that gave birth to her is my philosophy" - artisan Nguyen Van Truc confided.


Sunday 8 January 2012

Upcoming week of crafts Hanoi Vietnam

 From day 4 to 9/8/2010, at the Culture Palace Hanoi Friendship, Hanoi Vietnam Department of Industry and Trade Company ABIX will host the exhibition "Week handicrafts Hanoi 2010" with Thousand Year quintessential theme.

This is an annual program of Hanoi is located in strategic economic development capital for the primary purpose is to promote exports and promote traditional culture of craft villages in Hanoi.

The program consists of 7 main contents: Exhibition of handicrafts, display products unique handicrafts, exquisite artisans, skilled workers known; village workshop in Hanoi, the potential tourism development and discusses the traditional values ​​and tourism development in the village Hanoi Test samples composed gifts for celebration of 1,000 years of Thang Long-Ha Noi tourist village in Bat Trang , Ha Thai lacquer village, the village of Phu Vinh rattan and bamboo ...

Low performance products and fashion jewelry handmade with traditional subject-material design modern demonstration of the skilled artisan.

The organizers expected about 500 villages involved, tens of thousands of domestic and foreign guests to visit the exhibition.

The exhibition opens to contribute new markets for the sale of products of craft villages in Hanoi as well as to further promote cultural tourism activities, village in the capital "thousand years of civilization," the land of hundreds of occupations .

Kim Lan ancient pottery village in Hanoi Vietnam

Kim Lan pottery village is considered the home of ceramic household products of the ancient Thang Long capital.
Materials village land, the talented hands and skillful artisans have created these beautiful and useful products for everyday life.
Kim Lan ceramic village in Gia Lam district, southeast of Hanoi Vietnam, the northern border with the ancient village of Bat Trang, on the west with Hoang Mai district with a long history and is one of the famous pottery center the country.



Features include ceramic Kim Lan is the product not too fussy about the details that create a convenient and comfortable for users. The products of the pottery village is rich and varied, from small products like the bath tubes, foot candles to products such as potted plant trees, wine bottles, pickle jars salt. Also ancient pottery village, Kim Lan also focused on the development of ceramic products for construction such as decorative tile, the rail facilities.
In 2001, archeologist Masanari Nishimura Japan and the students of the Hanoi National University has been excavating ruins Kim Lan. In three reconnaissance pits found many pieces of fine china, including ceramic Longquan, Vietnam Chau's Chinese. In particular, it was found in diploid (drinking cup with ears) from the 11th century; a fragment of blue enamel disc, 45cm in diameter, in terms of a disc, first found in Vietnam, in addition also found traces of an oven line and background buildings 20x10m size.
Early in 2003, found relics of architectural materials, decoration materials, ancient pottery. In particular we also find the list, including baked pieces, pottery living men, furniture waste ... traces of the Tran kilns are still intact.
Based on the results of three excavations, archaeologists have concluded: Kim Lan was the center of ancient ceramics produced in the 13-14 century. Kim Lan ceramics have the ability to export the Tran dynasty pottery shards have patterns similar to the pottery shards found in the Philippines and Indonesia. So far the people and archaeologists have found thousands of artifacts on the ground Kim Lan. Thus, Ham Rong area, Kim Lan commune was officially recognized as the Archaeological Study.
Kim Lan pottery village today has a range of products and quality is also enhanced, not only cater to domestic demand that has been reaching out to international markets such as Japan, South Korea.
Together with other pottery village Bai Tho (Bac Ninh), Bat Trang (Hanoi )..., Kim Lan ancient pottery village green still hard to look past the quintessence screening for life today.

The ceramic lines converge at the northern Hanoi Vietnam capital

From 2-4/7, at Heritage House 87 Ma May Street, Hoan Kiem District, the Management Board of Hanoi Vietnam to introduce and demonstrate the northern line as Bat Trang pottery of Hanoi, Chu Dau in the province Hai Duong, Bac Giang province Tho Ha and Phu Lang in Bac Ninh.


These are activities to 1,000 years of Thang Long-Ha Noi and cultural activities in order to preserve the traditional rituals at the same time help and foreign visitors better understand Vietnam's pottery.
Pottery is a very popular items and close the life of the people of Vietnam. Present in each family, are ceramic products for the spiritual life of humans as decorative objects, vases, sculptures, paintings, pottery, incense burners, lamp and all the brick buildings as impact, puncture brick, tile and sculpted.
The northern line of ceramics over two thousand years of existence and development, creating a ceramic art treasures are abundant. During the development process, from pottery to pottery terracotta brown, porous pottery, white pottery, porcelain was born after another and create essential products for human life marked by each period material and manufacturing techniques and more advanced.
The ceramic is not the kind of record mark the time, the development of the people of Vietnam, but also a living document reflecting the visual arts and the creative richness of the ages . Typical line Chu Dau Pottery, Bat Trang pottery and other men are men and not in the oven Tho Ha, Phu Lang ...
Management Board of Hanoi City hopes through cultural activities will contribute to preserving the national cultural identity and traditional cultural nuances characteristic of the capital in particular and Vietnam in general. At the same time, enabling more people aware of the preservation and conservation of traditional crafts that his father left.
Bat Trang
Bat Trang pottery village on the bank left bank of the Red River, the center of Hanoi than 10km to the southeast. Bat Trang - a long-standing pottery village in Vietnam and famous.
According to some documents, Bat Trang village has existed as a village of about 500 years.
Most, Bat Trang pottery is produced by way of hand, demonstrated creative talents of artisans. Due to the nature of the ceramic core materials to create the shape and are made by hand on a turntable so Bat Trang ceramics distinctions is fully reinforced, solid and quite heavy.
Bat Trang is featured in the men men blue, brown glaze, enamel ivory, moss green glaze, enamel cracked.
Since the last century, Bat Trang pottery of high grade, rare but much of the cult as a candlestick, incense burners, flower vases.
Today, Bat Trang pottery has produced many products rich in variety and style, including items such as disk wall art, vases, seed, statues and reliefs version with technical and high technology.
To date, Bat Trang pottery has been all over the country and some countries in the world.
Chu Dau Pottery
Chu Dau village of Thai Tan, Nam Sach district, Hai Duong province, which is a center of ancient pottery from XIV century and flourished in the XV-XVI century.
Chu Dau ceramics have achieved four criteria are as thin as paper, in as jade, ivory and white like ding-dong.
Chu Dau ceramics have shown the Vietnamese spirit through decorations attached to nature and life of the inhabitants of the Red River delta as shepherds herd scene, the girl there, the hat, the thatched roof river, lotus wire, daisy wrap, plants, birds, fish.
Method of Chu Dau pottery decoration is very diverse, liberal, lyrical, harmonious, delicate as drawing, engraving, painting, coating ... manufacturing method also achieved a high level, which is polished, posing on the table turn, break the product into several stages and then assembled and processed. Ceramic bone mostly light gray, tough, a type of white, white.
Today, Chu Dau pottery has been in many countries around the world, especially in Europe.
Tho Ha Pottery
Tho Ha Pottery Village is located along the river Van Ha Cau commune, Vietnamese Yen district, Bac Giang province, is one of three famous pottery village of the Red River delta from several centuries ago, along with Phu Lang pottery and ceramics of Bat Trang.
According to the legend, the village of Tho Ha pottery from XIV century. It is often such that the ceramic Tho Ha is the voice of earth and fire, showing the simple and rustic but no less artistic value. Unlike Phu Lang pottery or Bat Trang, Tho Ha pottery unglazed ceramic but color has natural beauty.
Tho Ha non-ceramic tiles, are fired at high temperature should have a sophisticated, dark brown, type in a cry coong coong as steel.
Government due to the characteristics such that the ceramic Tho Ha was popular. In the past, most of the family home in the north has a Tho Ha pottery products such as gutters, jars, jar to worship.
After some time been eroded, to date, Tho Ha pottery has been restored by craftsmen, potters also pleased with the job seriously.
Bai Tho
Phu Lang pottery village of Que Vo, Bac Ninh, located in the right bank of the river bridge, which is considered a marine paint charming landscapes of rare earth Kinh Bac.
Here, the characteristics of the natural environment and ecology, not the full convergence conditions for the expansion of ceramics, but also contributes to the development of the particular nuances of Phu Lang pottery.
Phu Lang pottery is known for gourmet items with the tradition of the village is like chum, jars, small chinaware, earthenware, warm soil.
Period of prosperity, where merchant ships from the flock and bring Phu Lang pottery come from all over the country as Phu Tho and Lao Cai to Tuyen Quang; from Tuyen Quang to Thai Nguyen, Bac Giang and down the rivers, Pottery is everywhere as Hai Phong, Thanh Hoa, Hoa Binh, Son La ... In particular, there is a village of Thanh Hoa company sells products such as the village of Phu Lang Quan Noi Hoang Hoa district.
Phu Lang pottery bearing substances evaluated, rough, rugged, red-brown natural land enzyme is processed mainly from simple materials such as mud mixed with rice husk ash River Bridge or ash leaves.
So far, people here still respect the rules have been crafted products from hundreds of years, that is to use the turntable manually.
Features highlighted in Phu Lang pottery is decorated using the method in relief.
For products that are mass produced as ceramic civil, the Phu Lang is little decoration. Bai Tho dominant color in the natural enzyme, durable and strange, rustic pottery designs, rough sketch, but energetic, containing the pristine beauty of the land and bold sculpture.

Chang Son fan village in Hanoi Vietnam

Referring to the traditional craft of making paper fans, people often refer to the Warsaw Ke village called Village Soup Planning, Dan Hoa commune, Thanh Oai district, Hanoi Vietnam. But there are also specialized in making a village famous paper fan no less, that Chang Son fan village.

Chang Son village which is a traditional village's second most famous former Ha Tay Province, now part of Chang Son commune, Thach That district, Ha Noi. Dan Chang Son's also known as "critical technologies" and acting is just a fan of the famous lines of the village.
Career as a fan of the Son He has hundreds of years. From the 19th century, Chang Son fan made famous at home and abroad. The French have several times brought Chang Son fan remote ocean to Paris exhibition. History also record that fans who do well at the village was ordained Ms. Ho (product function or reason for pride wealthy feudal).
The advantage of making Chang Son fan usually in times of leisure. Before Lunar New Year is everything is available for purchase on leisure facilities when they bring out to do. Career as a fan but not too difficult, strenuous, but requires the fussy, meticulous to the extremely stylish.
To get a nan fan as you, the artist must put so much effort to choose the staring each bamboo tube, each fiber to cloud edges and sheaves of paper to each propeller. Tre must be flexible, old aged three years, no new outbound termites are durable and beautiful. Bamboo tubes cut, scrape blue crystal, splitting knife cut out, paint attached to two bamboo. After that, the bamboo was tight a few months, when dry paint into the staring the breathtaking new. Fibers have iridescent clouds, smooth, not long to knit when connecting multiple sections together.
Paper is a paper fan, the paper messages get buy Dong Ho (Bac Ninh) to bring about. When staring into the paper to be ingenious, meticulous, so that the paper is not creased, folds flat, well, handy for the painting.
When drawing, the artist's most difficult is the base standard folds between the staring. Must be carefully calculated so that upon completion, folding fan does not affect competition, the folds are in the right space, not cut or cut the material. If cases are required to cut, then the property of the drawing is created that links the viewer does not know which material is cut without hands touching the fan. When the fan stages to complete, the artist will paint the ball out there a fan to keep bright, durable.
Not only has high artistic value that each fan Son He also discovered a significant history of long-term philosophy. Fans may be material to the hands of her charming young woman, the virtue of his special occasions, or original art paintings on the wall for decoration.
Whether wall-mounted or hand-held fan is still well up from a beautiful soft, seductive textures from the images between the fan. The fans even more impressive by the material color iridescent silk royalty, the still shimmering blend with nature motifs are carved above. Every picture on the fan is a symbol of the famous scenic spots of the country and even the stories of ancient history of the area are national heroes ... It can be said Chang Son fan is the convergence of all elite of the sky and people of Vietnam.
He now has another old Son so much. The person making the fan, the fan-makers. Chang Son fan these were exported to the ocean both Japan and South Korea with designs, types and shapes. Not only do these paper fans, fans that this nan Chang Son who also produced the fan, silk fan sizes, individual fans to avoid meters in size. Mostly sell silk fan art troupes, festivals, tourist companies, the international tourists.
Higher fan paintings used to decorate the wall offers a space characterized ancient people retire. The name of the artist as Duong Van Mo, Nguyen Duc Lan, Lan Tuyet Nguyen, Duong Van Doan ... no one is not known. Especially artisans Duong Van Mo, who has made a fan record in Vietnam, 9 meters long, 4.5 m high, painting rural market in the form Hanoi Hang Trong paintings on display at the Flower Festival City New Year and traditional village Festival held in Hue in June / 2009.
Career as a fan not only provides income for people, but also play an important role in preserving and developing the tradition of an ancient village and contribute to promoting Vietnamese culture with friends in the country.
The country has changed its flesh, human life is increasingly improving, though not without modern means of cooling as air conditioners, electric fans, rock fans, but fans still have a traditional meaning extremely important. It is both assert the vitality of a traditional village, it has brought a subculture characterized rural past. Images of old sat waving paper fans or fan nan shade under the trees or the landscape reminds gable house reminiscent of a peaceful village, quiet, cool to see our family by having a fan used.

Thursday 5 January 2012

Nguyen Thi Que - Ms. lang rest of the village medicine men in Hanoi Vietnam

Although the village did not know drugs thousand years between the capital will survive much longer before urbanization, but more than 70 years, Mr Nguyen Thi Que in the village of Dai Yen has to fertilize algae frequency for its medicinal garden. Garden of specific drugs as a "herb garden" is to place earthly kingdom.
Perfume deceased drug
Few people know the ancient village of Dai Yen Ngoc Ha, Ba Dinh District, Hanoi Vietnam is a traditional medicinal plant for thousands of years nget shrinkage.
Use clear copy villages, the Ly Dynasty XI century, a girl named Tran Ngoc Tuong 9 years old, very good treatment by the kinds of leaves. The soldiers of Ly Thuong Kiet through this disease are her medical help. Thus, our army had defeated the enemy.
Ngoc Tuong million to supply the king and style as Princess Ngoc Hoa, but because her mind, she returned to the village of Great Compassion (General Yen today) and begin healing the people.
Previously, in this village there is a family tobacco plantation. Decade from 70 to 80 of the twentieth century, the village is the medicine bowl provides the Institute of Traditional Medicine of Vietnam, Hanoi University of Pharmacy and medicinal goods are sold throughout the market Kham Thien, Cua Nam, Dong Xuan Street drugs north.
Cinnamon tools this year than 70 years old but still keen eyes, his hands still healthy to move on both the garden and picking sessions. The six instruments have been growing and selling medicinal herbs in the village.
Childhood was tied to specific medicinal plants, from a young age, and children in particular have played the village name puzzles medicinal plants. Eight years old, learned to cut specific leaf medicines brought back.
Cultivation of medicinal plants is very hard and arduous. Whether sunny or rainy day drug growers must also be present in the garden, also "hand-foot mud spots" such as farmers "by land, feeding" it.
Maiden, the specific steps of drug burden had marks all over the place in Hanoi City. Medicinal plants often bear specific to vendors in the old town as North Street Drugs, Kham Thien, Cua Nam, Dong Xuan Market. And when old age comes, not specific enough to the market anymore, the engine returned to the market at the port village of Dai Yen.
Cinnamon tools to lead us out of the family medicine gardens, lush green gardens always faint pleasant aroma of pure medicine.
With an area of ​​approximately 400m2, garden full of medicinal plants as incense needs, problem identification, soil mixing, aloe vera, royal virgin, is open, grapefruit extract, copper blades, leaf show.
Although hard but income from garden tools Que drug Nam only about four years tens of thousands a day. Specifically still determined to keep the job because the work is already attached to the tool life and also the traditional family.
Cinnamon is not only proficient in specific care, healing properties of each plant, but also told patients to drug loading. Specific to each plant and then only to say the coronary wall.
Incense tree needs small serrated leaves, stems purple, can be used fresh or dried. This plant is left of the sun, fever, chills, headache, abdominal pain, diarrhea, chest pain, vomiting. Plantain used as a diuretic, to treat certain urinary tract disease, bleeding, edema, prolonged cough, diarrhea, nosebleeds.
A whole life attached to the land planted tobacco, cinnamon is specific in mind will make time to do it no longer afford it. "

Going into the old village area
Specifically Que laments along the flow channel of the village along the drain, the only remaining four small vineyards wanderous mounds of garbage disposal.
The village is also only a few households living by planting drugs, drug loading and the "stronger" General Yen did not know tobacco can "square" is how much longer.
In recent years the villagers rush to sell the land or building houses for rent, gardens demolished or shrinking and at risk of disappearing. The other area buildings sprang up and implement the garden with a myriad of medicinal plants, gone forever.
Time to buy some medicinal plants, to ask children to make soup, Forum, Thanh Tri, there is nothing you nowhere with more than 200 types of trees before the leaves.
The grandmother worries that "tomorrow is the General Yen Then take a ruler no land to grow medicinal plants. Do the job for life being lost as a result. "
Small garden of the family are at risk of release is still great-chiu particular care. With the scent of a particular drug was absorbed into the soil leaves the village, absorbed into the blood and bones. Regrets that despite the grandmother did not know what to do to preserve, the land that no longer handed down to posterity born again.
Every afternoon, the drug Nam harvested from the gardens of the village of Dai Yen sold in a small market next to the village entrance warts. In the past, this is a market where the most famous drug Nam in Hanoi, each time meeting sellers to buyers busy. Now, each day the market climb only a few sellers and Teo purchase.
And few people know is right in the heart of Hanoi is a village medicine men were nearly a thousand years old. The village she planted drugs in the village of Nam Yen as ancient instruments are the artisans Cinnamon is holding the intangible cultural capital of his father handed down from 1,000 last year.
Dai Yen village medicine men are in danger of slowly eroded. Is there a time when we can only listen to the cultivation of medicinal herbs of the village of Dai Yen as a fairy tale?

British master of the village Buddha statue in Hanoi Vietnam

 Hamlet steering wheel (Dan Hoa, Thanh Oai, Ha Noi Vietnam) have a job sculpting churches, non-sentences from raging for centuries.
According to history books documented the sculpting job in Ha Tay (old) is from the Le profile and steering wheel is one of the villages have a very early hour. Technology is Pham Van Cuong, "his master" has decades of teaching profession "true communication" father to his young age in many areas.
In 10 career from childhood toArtisan Pham Van Cuong was born in 1960 in a family with a tradition of the law, horizontal board, and the question of worship. Currently he is one of the few people in the profession longer holds the secrets of traditional paint mixing of "land occupations hundred" Hanoi.
Pham Van Cuong been traveling throughout the northern provinces of the interior in charge of many temples including the famous temples of Hanoi as Quan Thanh Temple, Co Nhue, Lang Ha, to shock, White Horse Temple .. .
"The object 'with job sculpting since she was 10 years old his grandfather by the hand only, artist Pham Van Cuong to the job nature as breathing air. For him, sculpture or diaphragm sentences for non-church is a "professional psychic."
Once completed a carved Buddha statues, celebrity statues or contributed remodeling is a temple, he felt in his peace effort has been expended by yourself to inherit and develop the tradition of his father in the preserve "the spiritual symbol" of the village was destroyed during the war and the encroachment of the natural elements, man.
Intensity expressed in job sculpting, painting is the most difficult. Paint can also be seen as a particular job requires a period of no less than silver carving, carving ivory.
Each object has a size of a "tired" of its own. Large objects requires not only skillful workers that need to be supple and healthy, experienced, known for chiseling wood grain look how to have counterbalanced the savings of material and time.
The statue he or she requires precision to detail even the smallest. These small objects are to perfect as "stuck" (cover painting and sculpture) grinding, painting occupied the most time.
Worker needs "Buddha mind"
Not only that artist Pham Van Cuong family 50-year-old artists are devoted to the traditional craft of his father. In his home village only had strength to three workshops with about 50 workers.
Now even at the age of "intellectual natural being," but he's still the same willing workers to wherever the "voice" of the temple.
In his workshop from 10-15 work mainly in rural areas are the steering wheel. My son is new to the job chiseling for women, girls, then make the peeling paint scraper before. As the skilled worker is responsible for the important and the most complex patterns such as touching or patching, painting. The most difficult is painted gilded requires the most wonderful ingenuity of the profession.
Although not difficult to find workers to do but he is most attentive to those who have disciplined the employee. This is important because the team of his workers often constructed in place of solemn temples in addition to the more skilled workers must have good morals, no obscenity, no alcohol. Because while they are working to comply with the social principles of Buddhist temples. "So workers must have the heart towards the Buddha," he concluded strength.
He said that the training discipline also helps workers be more careful in their work, the profession has no room for sloppy workers as this not only creates products with disabilities, poor bowl with the losses of money, but people who keep training through the generations.
We are breathlessly by artist Pham Van Cuong bring vocational training to the steering wheel to the village to many regions of the country. There are people who have settled in Thailand, Cambodia, China.
For his contribution in preserving, promoting and teaching traditional crafts for the younger generation, Pham Van Cuong was awarded artisan June / 2005.

Brand dress Luong Van Can Street - Hanoi Vietnam


Ao dai slender, graceful beauty has become a bold cultural identity of Vietnam. Cultural capital of thousand years of civilization has created elegant lifestyle proud flowers, always reaching out to beauty, elegance. Over the years the city turned into the old town and they are positive, the city core was established in Hanoi Vietnam. Luong Van Can Street and lines may dress in Trach Xa, Ung Hoa district is one such case.
300m long street named after the grape patriotic Luong Van Can - who founded the Tokyo rural communes Nghia Thuc Nhi Khe Thuong Tin district, Ha Noi ward Hang Dao, Hoa Kiem District. The dress shop may closely here.


This is shown by the craftsmen, the hand of the skilled artisan. Their products have become well-known brands in the country not only Vietnam but also the internationally known friends.
People in Thang Long known as the quartet's gongs, Ke Cho people. By pouring on four crowded, busy people who sell wholesale. Thang Long became the meeting place and cultural diffusion. Ancient villages rush to the capital city freight in the fair, especially in the villages around the capital.
Perhaps no place in our country there are many villages that time and skill as in the upper soil Son Nam Ha Dong old news. And told of course the biggest market most fertile. So they invite each other moving goods to Ke Cho offers. They gathered together into guilds.
Initially only sold at the fair, the financial trade development if one goes away, for on it is very inconvenient, they went to buy land for storage, then to the store. They are the first, the main components of the city established trade villages sell their items.
Section has the effect may have derived from the profession may Trach Xa village, Ung Hoa, Hanoi. Trach Xa tell people that her group's career may be said Nguyen Thi Sen village - beautiful daughters, the village is sure is the king from the airport. She has training in supply and may have taught the people in the village.
Today, people still begin proceedings Trach Xa anecdotes about the artisans of the village as there are people who may dress the honor for the king of the Nguyen dynasty, or Ta Van Qu was 30 years old may be new clothes King Bao Dai and Queen Nam Phuong despite standing only to estimate distance. Over hundreds of years, trades may have worked with people Trach Xa village.
Generations of workers skilled Trach Xa beyond the bamboo village and shops and stores throughout the North and South are particularly ubiquitous in Hanoi Vietnam.
To remember the origin of the craft, the effect may have been named here as U.S. stores Trach, Van Trach, Phuong Trach, Duc Trach, An Trach ... do so brand of street lines.
A Day Thu, we turned to the dressmaker's eyes on the street to watch the sample agreed slender graceful dress. Fall is also the wedding season may be the effect here is very large. The girls are watching, select fabrics, choose the model is the boss again busy with work and counseling tailored to the client. Several top foreign guests may also visit to see the effect of fabric, may take the shirt as a souvenir.
Ao Dai Vinh Trach effect of Mr. and Mrs. Le Thi Luyen, Le Thanh Vinh at 23 Luong Van Can Street shrinkage was employed 50 years and handing over 4 life.
She Luyến "professional touch" after a 12-year-old girl. Back then, her father was the famous dress may be more wealthy families may be invited to that, and she often accompanied her father. The skill or work of young girls have been very satisfied customer, she is very well known by your caring, beautiful voice may land in Hanoi.
Mr. Vinh - her husband is also in the profession. Later, his seven children of her own work despite still succeed as a professional parent left. Dress the same effect called Vinh Trach No. 8 Luong Van Can a shop of her daughter.
British Constitution - owner may Duc Trach (6 Luong Van Can), to establish the business before the Revolution in Hanoi in August 1945 to present his family had 3 professional life living and working in this city, more than anyone else he Constitution very proud of the traditional homeland.
The surface world famous and skilled dressmaker's dress Duc Trach has proved "class in the industry" and has been the fashion in China to order, many models and singers also find the German Trach.
Today, despite the "blooming" of the dressmaker's dress but with a reputation in the profession, those who still seek to Hanoi with the name of the person may Trach Xa.
While each brand may have a trade secret, but still needed to support each other professionally. The Trach commune with the seams, how to build own dress is unmistakable. However profession may still have to dress as a carefully calculated, sifted sugar in each needle nose. May not dress nice and hard, but to become a brand is not easy.
The dress of the effective date may Luong Van Can Street has many innovative combination of traditional style and modern medium to suit every age and every style of each person. Although styles have changed, old-fashioned innovation as traditional boat neck, round neck, square neck or arm missing, but the dress is short arm carries a subtle beauty and grace.
The number of fabric is very rich with lots of new fabric is preferred. The girls, she often chooses the glass fabric chiffon, chiffon dress may thin. What about her mother liked the same material as velvet, silk. This year, customers tend to return to traditional materials mixed with calm color.
Although he may not know how many dress with all the traditional and modern at the request of customers, but the effect may An Trach - Mr. Nguyen Anh Dung may still prefer the traditional type of dress, wear will be body, is evil, phiu flat waist, hugging people.
Although time has passed, life has changed, the new dress is how much the dress is traditional clothing, and can not be replaced. From past to present and ever after, ao dai Vietnam will remain permanent, and which can not be without the presence of branded tunic dress Luong Van Can Street.

To preserve and promote traditional craft villages in Hanoi Vietnam

Convention on the stage of opening and integration, if no measures to preserve and develop craft villages is very difficult to compete with the new technology industries, modern science and technology.
Emphasis on the role and importance of traditional craft villages in Vietnam Seminar on "Conservation and development of craft villages in Hanoi" took place today (17 / 9), Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Ho Xuan Hung said that the traditional village plays a very important for the development of the country.
"In particular, for the capital Hanoi Vietnam, the region containing the history of thousand years of civilization, a place to gather the essence of the job definition, traditional craft villages in Vietnam, the preservation and development of villages Ha Home more needs to be taken seriously, "Deputy Minister Ho Xuan Hung said.



Hanoi now has 1,350 craft villages and craft villages, accounting for nearly 60% of the total 47 villages with 52 lines of the profession nationally. In such ceramics, textiles, leather, sculpture, mosaic brother, embroidery, lacquer, rattan and bamboo, inlaid jewelry, jewelry ... is the industry thrive.
Currently, Hanoi has more than 270 villages recognized criteria, including nearly 200 traditional villages are recognized.
According to Vice Minister Ho Xuan Hung, stage opening and integration, if no measures to preserve and develop craft villages is very difficult to compete with new lines of technology, science and technology is university.


Therefore, the Deputy Minister Ho Xuan Hung said that the need to find all solutions to conserve, preserve and promote traditional village contributed a foothold in Vietnam.
Seminar on "Conservation and development of craft villages in Hanoi" with activities such as crafts contest and Thang Long Cup 1000 year fairs and sale of specialized products of handicraft production Browsing: Seminar on development of bamboo and especially Vietnam Festival "village, Pho Thang Long-Ha Noi lines" from 16-21/9 held in Botanic Park is one of the events celebrate the opening celebration of 1,000 years of Thang Long-Hanoi. /.

Warsaw Village birdcage in Hanoi Vietnam

Is about 30km from Hanoi Vietnam Warsaw village, the village's name literally Soup Plan, currently under Dan Hoa commune, Thanh Oai district, Hanoi, where traditional crafts such as fans, mold making, hat making and especially the work bird cage.


All four villages are Canh Commune Planning, Vu Mausoleum, Tien Lu, Phu Tho with 2,340 households, up to more than 400 households cage. In particular, Canh Plan is developed with more than 100 households cage. The income of each household on average reached 5-10 million / month.
At the Art artist Nguyen Van Canh Village Plan, the husband and the cage placed congested entrance. He eagerly preparing for the packing of Ho Chi Minh.
They talk to him, to know that career as a bird cage in the village of Warsaw has come a long life, hereditary. So far, the villagers Warsaw still boasts a bird cage when told about the village of Warsaw has won medals at the public auction Magic in Hanoi French colonial period.
To meet the three criteria for durability, beauty, to, Warsaw village artisans to make public the many stages as the breathtaking nan to bottom, to ring (ring), shops, bridges, decorated on the rim, the cage assembly. The bamboo material is purchased from bamboo forests of the northern mountainous provinces such as Hoa Binh, Cao Bang.



Then use a variety of ways from traditional bamboo soaked, boiled bamboo, bamboo grill even ... to reach out to discourage the standard of termite resistant ... Not to mention having to refine how the hundreds of thousands of bamboo is round and straight alike.
However, as the artisan Nguyen Van Nghe said the bird cage is not difficult to do in the breathtaking stage nan, which hit hard at the rim contour of the cage. Cage on wheels, the small vignettes as a poem Han; the dragon, unicorn, phoenix; the plants, flowers are a finely carved with numerous small lines and meticulous accuracy. Only a very small knife with talented hands, the village workers carved Warsaw has the ring of the cage so picturesque.
One other interesting thing is the bird cage maker must have certain knowledge about the shape and living habits of each bird to make the cage match in both shape and size.
Warsaw to the village today, people from very surprised at the strong development of the village. The bird cage is finely carved patterns of Warsaw village by foot travelers all over the country to play for fun elegant birds of the Vietnamese. /.