Culture

Draft 01

Fire-keepers in carpentry

Lung Ha carpentry village located in Yen Phuong commune, Yen Lac district, Vinh Phuc province is a home-production craft village. The carpentry destination is famous for the family worshiping products towards spiritual and ancient values. Each carving line is dedicated and symbolize the heart of Vietnamese generation.

On the land of “forest of gold and silver sea” which is rich in natural resources like Vietnam, exist many famous carpentry villages. Lung Ha carpentry village is one of them. Lung Ha cultural village currently has about 40 households continuing with the traditional wooden craft, both to preserve the profession left by their fathers and to make a living. In order to maintain and continue a craft village for decades, carpenters have to take great care with meticulousness and devotion all of their heart and soul into their “spiritual children”.

In addition to the beauty of sophistication and craftsmanship, the products of Lung Ha village are further highlighted when they are made up of the cheerful optimism, the love of life and the dedication to the job of the craftmen. So, even though the products are worshiping ones, they conveys gentlness and cheerful features of their makers.

As the economic market increasingly integrates, craft villages might be at risk of disappearance. But with the spirit of loving the craft in accordance with the skillful of each product, the carpenters in Lung Ha will always play the role of keeping the soul and fire for this cultural carpentry village.