Chang Son is known as one of the oldest craft villages in the country, where the most famous and famous is carpentry.
Located about 30km from the center of Hanoi to the west, Chang Son hamlet, Chang Son commune, Thach That district is famous for .
Legend of the village
The old craft village’s name was Nua Chang, the word “guy” here is just the name of a tool for carpentry.
Legend in the village also tells that outside the village there is a wasteland, where Saint Tan Vien sent people to pick up artisans to carve the communal house on Tan mountain. When brought back, each person had a bamboo leaf placed in their throat. If they reveal the secrets of the profession to others as well as they tell about what they have seen and heard at Tan Vien, they will be pierced by that bamboo leaf.
Currently, the elderly and elderly artisans also cannot understand when the village’s carpentry started, because who created the village because the village currently has many communal houses, but none of them worship the village god as a carpenter. .
The truth of these anecdotes is not clear, but the elderly artisans in the village confirm that the Chang Son carpentry village has existed and is famous since the time when Hung Vuong founded the country.
By 1956, Nua Chang village was called Chang Son.
The quintessence of carpentry
Over thousands of years of existence and development, Chang Son today still has no shortage of talented craftsmen who can make such anecdotal works.
Their products are made, not for kings anymore, but for sale to customers from all over the world, from the most common people to the most sophisticated customers.
With the development of science and technology, with the help of modern machinery, now the work of the carpenter Chang Son is somewhat less arduous and more productive. However, it is not because of that that the rustic products of the Chang village lose their value. There are still patterns, finely chiseled lines that only the craftsman’s hands can make.
Buyers still come to nuoc nup, still fascinated with the products of this craft village.
About Chang Son, everyone is fascinated by the engrossedness of the artisans with the chisel and plank being passionately crafted. They are focusing on their work without paying attention to what is going on around them. There are young people, there are elderly people, all are preparing to launch the carpentry products of the craft village which has a long tradition.
Chang Son wooden house
In the famous ancient wooden house-making villages in the Northern Delta, Chang Son commune is known as one of the places where wooden houses are made with many works reaching the pinnacle of Vietnam’s wooden architectural art.
An old house designed by master, architect Nguyen Giang and built in Cu Chi. (Photo: Nguyen Giang/Vietnam Photo Newspaper)In the history of Vietnamese architecture, wooden houses are the right choice for Vietnamese people’s conditions and personalities.
In the architecture of houses, Chang Son workers often build them based on the typical architectural structure of Vietnamese wooden houses.
The wooden house is built into 5 compartments and has only one floor. The roof is pyramidal, spreading evenly to the front and back of the porch. The wooden frame architecture is also quite unique, built from interconnected trusses to create a unified block with a rectangular mold and four square corners.
The living room has solid wooden tables and chairs in the middle. Adjacent to the wall are the wardrobes, wooden crates and the altar of ancestors. Traditional style pavilions can be hung in the main room. In front, if there is a large space, it will be a garden, planting ornamental plants of small size.
To make a traditional wooden house, workers must calculate the size of the house.
Traditional materials used to be made of pine wood, ironwood, tuu, etc., later due to changing conditions, workers also adjusted to switch to other planted forest wood.
After selecting the raw materials, the craftsman will process the raw components in the workshop and carve patterns on the components.
In order to clearly show the element of Vietnamese traditional wooden houses, Chang Son workers often chisel and carve patterns bearing Vietnamese cultural images such as folk games, betel nut, betel nut, and Thanh Giong.
Source: Collected internet.