Follow female photographer Ngoc Diem to admire beautiful moments in the working rhythm of traditional craft villages.
Photo set by photographer Cao Thi Ngoc Diem (HCMC) made. She often travels around the region to take pictures to capture colorful moments of life, especially in craft villages, because it captures the human values and culture of the Vietnamese people.
In the photo is the fish grill in the coastal district of Quynh Luu, Nghe An . There are about 50 households in this district that are engaged in fish baking. Fresh mackerel, cheeks, and herring have just arrived ashore, are collected, cleaned and arranged in rows by people on the grills before they are baked in coal. Each batch of fish is grilled for 10 – 15 minutes. Each day grilled 1 – 3 quintals of fish, bringing in an income of nearly 200,000 VND per person.
The profession of making alum sugar, a famous specialty in Nghia Duong commune, Quang Ngai city . This type of sugar is crystallized, like quartz bars.
In the photo, the process of preparing threaded baskets is placed in the jar, where sugar water clings to the threads to precipitate. After the sugar is completely solidified, the worker pours the sugar out, crushes each block and then dries it, selects the crystalline alum, which is bagged for consumption.
The Phu Gia horse-hat trade village is over 300 years old, located in Cat Tuong commune, Phu Cat district, Binh Dinh . The whole commune has about 320 households with more than 700 workers making hats, mainly according to orders.
Horses were once an indispensable accessory for court officials. Making a horse’s hat goes through many meticulous steps, from creating an enchanting rib, tying ribs to embroidering patterns and staring. Artisans embroider patterns according to the themes of dragon, unicorn, mandarin, phoenix, phoenix painting, plum, orchid, chrysanthemum, bamboo, poetry, sentence, landscape …
A peaceful scene on a duck herding field in Tra O lagoon, Phu My district, Binh Dinh. Raising ducks to run in the fields, taking eggs is a popular profession in many rural areas of our country, helping many households to save significantly on the cost of buying food, thereby increasing profits.
In addition to the famous landscape, visitors can go to the countryside to experience, take photos of the An Thai noodle and cake making village in An Nhon town, Binh Dinh.
The noodle making steps are not too sophisticated, each establishment, each household has its own way of making. Usually, the vermicelli or cake will dry after 4-5 hours if the sun is nice. Near the new year, the working atmosphere here is also becoming more bustling to meet the market demand.
In addition, Quy Nhon beach town also has a fish-steaming village dating back more than half a century at a fish market located along Ham Tu wharf. Boats carrying fresh fish are bought by the autoclaves, with types such as squid, scoop, rice, melon or tuna.
Sea fish, after cleaning and preliminary processing, are put in an oven with boiling water in turn. The steamed water is specially formulated to ensure the rich taste of marine fish. The steaming time of each type is also rationally adjusted so that when the fish is cooked, the meat will be chewy and delicious
Besides salt making, Ninh Thuan is famous for anchovy village in My Tan, Ninh Hai. This anchovy village is located on the road to Vinh Hy Bay – Binh Tien, about 20 km east of Phan Rang Thap Cham city. Along the two sides of the road, visitors can see the fish blisters that are dried in rows, characteristic of the sea here.
The anchovy season is from April to August every year, after being caught, the fish are soaked in salty water, then dipped in the oven for about 5 minutes before being dried. After 4 – 5 hours of sun drying, the anchovy blisters are picked and removed the trash fish before weighing and packing, and sold to customers.
Coming to Ninh Thuan, visitors can experience salt making in Ninh Hai, visit salt fields, learn the production process, harvest, and immerse in the life of salt people.
People have to do steps such as leveling fields, building banks, making systems to bring seawater into salt fields. Normally, after getting into the water, getting hot, about 7 days, you can scratch the salt and harvest.
Phan Thiet city, Binh Thuan has the areas that focus on making fish sauce for a long time, namely Thanh Hai, Phu Hai, Duc Thang and Ham Tien, thanks to its abundant raw materials, advantages in mineral salt and traditional know-how. The main ingredient to make fish sauce is anchovy, the most delicious is anchovy and pepper stripes.
In addition to making fish sauce in a tent, Phan Thiet fish sauce is also brewed with a jar. Phan Thiet salt with a high concentration of pure, high salinity helps keep fish from rotting and produces delicious and bold products.
Bustling picture on the field of eagle in harvest season in Vung Liem district, Vinh Long . Instead of growing wild, almond grass is widely grown by farmers, replacing traditional wet rice in Vung Liem.
Almond grass is also known as eagle or papyrus, easy to grow, resistant to alum, less laborious care and pests. Grass is planted for nearly half a year until it is above an adult’s head to harvest. After cutting the grass, let it grow again and again without planting. A day, people cut about 300 bundles. This grass was created by Westerners and made into handicraft products such as cushions, hats, baskets …
Mang Thit brick village, Vinh Long looks like a miniature tower high above. The village over 100 years old is the largest producer of red bricks and pottery in the Mekong Delta. There are still about 1,300 brick kilns, stretching over an area of 3,000 hectares, most of which are located along the Thay Cai canal to the section adjacent to Co Chien River, a branch of the Mekong River.
In the picture is a picture of harvesting rice with a combine harvester on Co Do field, a district west of Can Tho city . The Red Flag region has many potentialities and advantages in agricultural production development. Combined harvester helps farmers save time and money.
“Developing and preserving craft villages is also an advantage when expanding economic exchanges in domestic and foreign markets, expanding cultural relations with other countries, diversifying tourism products, creating more choices. attractive to visitors. Photography for me is not only an experience but also a loving connection with people and friends who have the same passion in past lands ”, said female photographer Ngoc Diem.
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