If Hanoi has Bat Trang, Hai Duong is also proud of Chu Dau pottery village. This craft village is a place that many people love and come to discover the historical flow of a famous traditional craft village in the North.
Hai Duong is one of the strong localities in heritage and cultural tourism, this place has many destinations bearing historical imprints and features of the Northern countryside. Chu Dau pottery village is one of the attractive destinations for tourists because of its long-standing pottery tradition and the values and quintessence of the craft village that are still preserved to this day. Traveling to Hai Duong and visiting Chu Dau pottery village, you will have the opportunity to discover the cultural beauty of the oldest craft village in the East.
Chu Dau pottery village is an attractive tourist destination. Photo: Stock News
Ups and downs in the historical flow of Chu Dau pottery village
Chu Dau pottery village is located in Thai Tan commune, Nam Sach district of Hai Duong province on the left bank of Thai Binh river. This craft village was formed in the 14th century and flourished in the 15th and 16th centuries. After that, due to war and chaos, pottery making in Chu Dau gradually disappeared and disappeared.
Chu Dau pottery village developed extremely well from the 14th to 16th centuries. Photo: Dang Cong Man Duong
In 1980, the secretary of the Japanese embassy in Vietnam, Makato Anabuki, when he arrived in Turkey, saw a blue-flowered ceramic vase at the Takapisaray museum with the Chinese characters “Thai Hoa eight years Nam Sach Chau, equivalent Bui Thi Hy pen” should have asked the secretary of the Hai Duong Provincial Party Committee at that time to find the origin of the ceramic vase. From that information, Hai Duong province promoted fieldwork and unearthed the Chu Dau relic. , discovered many relics of one of the major fine art pottery centers in Thai Tan and Minh Tan communes and from here the restoration of the famous Chu Dau pottery village in the past started again.
Pottery making in Chu Dau was once lost. Photo: Dy Toan
Chu Dau ‘s children began to restore the traditional craft village of their ancestors, even opening factories to help the village’s products develop. present in many countries around the world.
Chu Dau Village: not just a traditional craft village
The revival of Chu Dau pottery village not only helps preserve traditional values and create famous ceramic products, but also turns this place into an attractive tourist destination of Hai Duong.
Today, the pottery village has become a famous tourist destination. Photo: @canviticoi
Visiting Chu Dau pottery village, visitors will be immersed in the peaceful space of a Northern countryside village and visit and learn about the process of creating famous ceramic products from all over the world.
A corner of Chu Dau ancient pottery village. Photo: Thai Loc
Pottery of Chu Dau village is from white clay of Truc Thon area of Chi Linh town. After taking the soil back, people will bring it into the water to filter it and then add additives to refine it into a pot for making pottery. When the clay is soft, flexible and achieves the required smoothness, it will be sharpened and molded on the turntable. From the past to the present, the ceramic products of Chu Dau village are all handmade, from molding, casting to painting and decorating flowers, all are done by talented potters of the craft village. Therefore, ceramics when released from the oven are always of high quality and have their own characteristics that distinguish them from ceramics in other places.
Ceramic products are mainly handmade. Photo: Hai Duong Newspaper
Patterns are hand-painted by talented artisans. Photo: Business Forum
The pottery of Chu Dau village is characterized by very clear white glaze with blue patterns thanks to the use of indigo white glaze and red-brown, green-yellow patterns thanks to the use of tam Thai glaze. The designs and textures of the patterns on the ceramic are very sophisticated and imbued with Vietnamese cultural identity. The secret to having ceramic products that reach the sophistication of the people here is the technique of painting under the glaze, then firing it in the kiln, then coating it with Tam Thai glaze and firing it again. That is why the ceramic products of Chu Dau village from the past, whether buried underground or sunk on the seabed over the centuries, still retain both color and design intact.
Chu Dau ceramic products are very beautiful and sophisticated. Photo: Decopro
Visiting Chu Dau pottery village , visitors will be amazed by the world of pottery here so colorful and beautiful. Visitors will admire the collections of antique ceramics, contemporary ceramic products, visit Chu Dau Pottery Joint Stock Company, Chu Dau pottery village Especially visitors will have to enjoy the experience of visiting. production area as well as experience making pottery yourself or explore archaeological sites.
Where artists draw patterns of craft villages. Photo: Investment Newspaper
Exhibition area for Chu Dau ceramic products. Photo: VTV
In particular, many attractive destinations around the ancient pottery village such as the temple of Chu Dau’s pottery ancestor Dang Huyen Thong, Chu Dau pottery museum or ancient pottery kilns will also bring fascinating experiences for the discovery journey of tourists. traveler.
If you love traditional craft village culture, especially pottery, when coming to Hai Duong, don’t forget to visit Chu Dau pottery village to discover the colorful world of Vietnamese pottery yourself.
Source: Collected internet.