Visit a hundred-year village near Hanoi, owning golden chrysanthemum fields, making people everywhere flock to take pictures

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The days of December are also the harvest of chrysanthemum in Nghia Trai medicinal village (Hung Yen province), the image of a bright yellow sky makes everyone feel like Tet is coming.
Visit a hundred-year village near Hanoi, possessing the "kingly" chrysanthemum fields  golden, making people everywhere pouring in to take pictures - Photo 1.

Passing 30km from Hanoi to Nghia Trai medicinal village (in Van Lam district, Hung Yen province) in the cold weather of the North these days is really a challenge for those who have the hobby of going “check-in” everywhere. . However, when we come here, it feels like all the challenges of the weather and the distance are really worthwhile because the scenery of this famous medicinal village is so beautiful during the chrysanthemum harvest.

No need to search long, just follow the concrete road leading into the village immediately caught the eye are the extremely beautiful chrysanthemum fields. Like a golden silk stretching to the horizon. In Nghia Trai Cuc Chi is planted in June and harvested in December, trees are planted in low beds.

When blooming small round, beautiful daisies with golden color blooming together, creating a beautiful scene, along with the farmers who go to the fields to harvest flowers, it feels like the Tet here. about.

Visit a hundred-year village near Hanoi, possessing the "kingly" chrysanthemum fields  golden, making people everywhere pouring in to take pictures - Photo 2.

According to Ms. Nguyen Thi Dung (owner of chrysanthemum field) shared: “This year the chrysanthemum comes out a few weeks earlier than every year and is completely manually harvested by the people until the Lunar New Year is over. After that time, we only leave one bed for seeding, and we will plant other herbs. press “plants that make flower beds evenly low and have the best yield”.

Legend has it that the chrysanthemum variety in Hung Yen land is used as medicine for the king’s sake, because only the soil in this village produces the best quality flowers. So because of this, in addition to the common name of chrysanthemum, yellow chrysanthemum, royal chrysanthemum … this flower is also given the noble name “chrysanthemum”.

Visit a hundred-year village near Hanoi, possessing the "kingly" chrysanthemum fields  golden, making people everywhere pouring in to take pictures - Photo 3.
Visit a hundred-year village near Hanoi, possessing the "kingly" chrysanthemum fields  golden, making people everywhere pouring in to take pictures - Photo 3.
Visit a hundred-year village near Hanoi, possessing the "kingly" chrysanthemum fields  golden, making people everywhere poured in to take pictures - Photo 4.
Visit a hundred-year village near Hanoi, possessing the "kingly" chrysanthemum fields  golden, making people everywhere poured in to take pictures - Photo 6.

Chrysanthemum after reaching the “ripeness” level will be harvested, the flowers that have no buds and have not yet died will be harvested by farmers, each season is divided into 2 times, each time apart 1 month.

The current time, although the outdoor temperature is quite cold, but for those who love the rustic beauty that is extremely brilliant, there is nothing more precious than coming to Nghia Trai village every year to enjoy the beauty of a season. flowers, just enjoy the peace and hospitality of the people here.

Visit a hundred-year village near Hanoi, possessing the "kingly" chrysanthemum fields  golden, making people everywhere pouring in to take pictures - Photo 5.

The chrysanthemum gardens are not only harvested for medicinal purposes, but also are photographed by local people. According to a farmer here, each group will spend 50,000 VND for a photo shoot at the chrysanthemum field, the reason is also because the fragile daisies are easily crushed, so the cost of taking photos is only to compensate for the the photographer “accidentally” ruined the flowers.

However, after going down to the chrysanthemum field, just bring up the camera to have wonderful pictures with a background of golden flowers. Not only that, the people here are extremely enthusiastic, when donating also hand-held props with small bunch of beautiful daisies, the model can also play the role of flower collectors, enough to make the experience here more interesting. all parts.

Visit a hundred-year village near Hanoi, possessing the "kingly" chrysanthemum fields  golden, making people everywhere pouring in to take pictures - Photo 7.
Visit a hundred-year village near Hanoi, possessing the "kingly" chrysanthemum fields  golden, making people everywhere pouring in to take pictures - Photo 10.
Visit a hundred-year village near Hanoi, possessing the "kingly" chrysanthemum fields  golden, making people everywhere pouring in to take pictures - Photo 8.
Visit a hundred-year village near Hanoi, possessing the "kingly" chrysanthemum fields  golden, making people everywhere pouring in to take pictures - Photo 9.
Visit a hundred-year village near Hanoi, possessing the "kingly" chrysanthemum fields  golden, making people everywhere pouring in to take pictures - Photo 10.

In the flower season, a whole area of ​​flowers bloomed, also because of the specificity of hand-picking completely by hand, there were dozens of collectors in a field, depending on how familiar they were with their hands. On average, each person picks about 15-20kg of flowers per day, with a remuneration of 10,000 VND / kg.

Chrysanthemum in recent years is one of the healthy teas, so you have to visit the 250-year-old herbal village garden to buy fresh flowers for 50,000 VND / kg. The fresh flowers are harvested quickly and brought home for drying.

Visit a hundred-year village near Hanoi, possessing the "kingly" chrysanthemum fields  golden, making people everywhere pouring in to take pictures - Photo 15.
Visit a hundred-year village near Hanoi, possessing the "kingly" chrysanthemum fields  golden, making people everywhere pouring in to take pictures - Photo 12.

Chrysanthemum after a few hours of harvest will be dried, dried by coal or by an electric oven, after a few hours will produce dried finished daisy. This herb can be extracted into medicinal substances such as Gluxit, tetaxilin … so it is used as raw material for herbal processing companies or sold as tea for Tet. For every 5kg of fresh chrysanthemum, 1kg of dried chrysanthemum is sold at a price of 500,000-700,000 VND depending on the time.

Visit a hundred-year village near Hanoi, possessing the "kingly" chrysanthemum fields  golden, making people everywhere pouring in to take pictures - Photo 13.
Visit a hundred-year village near Hanoi, possessing the "kingly" chrysanthemum fields  golden, making people everywhere pouring in to take pictures - Photo 14.
Different from other rural areas in the North of Vietnam inviting guests to come to play at home with tea, water … then coming to Nghia Trai, we will be immediately invited by the people here to invite a cup of chrysanthemum tea “to the king”. The temple near the batches of dried chrysanthemums is filled with a scent like honey, lifting a cup of hot tea with a gentle sweet taste will make those who come to this land will remember forever.

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