New development of the profession in Thach laterite - Hanoi Vietnam

Over hundreds of years, people Thach That district - Hanoi Vietnam accustomed to digging laterite houses. Then the times changed, so full of hard training, hard childhood that now suddenly give them a job "no rice, warm clothing."

If anyone has one to Thach, sure will never forget the image of the houses, the village gates, wells, walls ... built of laterite bricks first chicken liver golden straw color, rough, rough but offers a beautiful rustic place with the village scene.
Laterite which is the soft, spongy holes like a honeycomb. Due to the composition of mainly iron oxide and aluminum, it was also located deep underground are quite soft, but when dug up, the more air to meet long as hard. Therefore, it is often exploited to make building materials instead of bricks.

Thach is the land of laterite mines, so ancient, they exploit them mostly just to make building material because it is available free of charge in nature. Eventually we discovered not only a lateritic type of construction materials are cheap, durable, beautiful, but also can do many things such as statuary and decorative items for the construction ... the Therefore, the new Thach devised a new job for a living, which is profession handicrafts laterite.
Ten years, in Thach Binh Yen (Hanoi)has emerged as the craft ornaments laterite. Products made anywhere near sold out right there, so people in the region is also rich quick by what it is.
The Yen Binh commune, about 200 households living by mining and processing laterite. Typically the family Yen Nguyen Van Dan in rural America, the owner of a mining and processing facilities laterite famous work in the area. The job he was 12 years and both houses have 4 people with jobs.
Share laterite job, people said it was his job that requires diligence, meticulous and have handy. According to him, harvesting techniques and processing laterite, basically how far away is the same. It's a craft that you simply have health, dexterity and a few simple tools we were able to open a practice.
On his visit to the factory people, in addition to the large laterite bricks, we also see many art works of natural beauty are manipulated laterite as the dragons, elephants, tigers, leopards, lions , buffalo, chickens, dogs, even those old-fashioned lamps, flower pots quite sophisticated.

Just take us to visit the factory, Dan said he was only half kidding: "In ancient times, people get laterite area to build houses, build walls, but now used to process laterite, offering high level for the rich. "
His jokes seemed to have good people in Hanoi, by now the need to use the product in lateritic building is quite large, especially the construction of temples or homes that want to follow the ancient way. The form of this work, to create the rustic beauty, friendly and approachable, laterite is the most favorable material. Maybe so, but more and more people are willing to spend money to play laterite. And now, thanks to which people in particular and Yen Binh Thach That district generally has to be the food of, the medium can contribute to help make life beautiful.