{"id":14471,"date":"2022-04-05T17:50:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T10:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietnam-destinations.com\/en\/destination\/lang-gom-tho-ha-bac-giang\/"},"modified":"2022-04-05T17:53:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T10:53:34","slug":"lang-gom-tho-ha-bac-giang","status":"publish","type":"destination","link":"https:\/\/vietnam-destinations.com\/en\/destination\/lang-gom-tho-ha-bac-giang\/","title":{"rendered":"Tho Pottery Village Ha Bac Giang"},"content":{"rendered":"

1. A brief history of Tho Ha pottery village (Bac Giang)<\/font><\/font><\/h2>\n

Tho Ha pottery craft dates back to the 12th century and is one of the three oldest ceramic centers of the Vietnamese people, next to Phu Lang and Bat Trang.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

According to the village genealogy and archaeological samples found, Tho Ha is one of the cradles of ceramics. <\/font>Tho Ha was a busy pottery trading port of Kinh Bac region.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

The flourishing of the pottery profession has helped people build a complex of majestic architecture of communal houses, pagodas, literature, and village gates.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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In the village, there is a story that the ancestor of Tho Ha pottery village is Dr. Dao Tri Tien. <\/font>At the end of the Ly dynasty, three men Dao Tri Tien, Hua Vinh Cao and Luu Phong Tu worked together as mandarins in the court and were sent to the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127).<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

After completing the mission, on the way back home to Shaozhou, Guangdong province encountered a storm, had to rest.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

There is a famous pottery kiln here, his father visited and learned the technique of making pottery.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Returning to the country, Dao Tri Tien taught the profession of making crimson ceramics to Tho Ha, Hua Vinh Cao taught the profession of making white ceramic products to Bat Trang, Luu Phong Tu passed on the profession of making dark yellow ceramics to Phu Lang.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Previously, the ceremony of offering incense to the pottery ancestors (respecting all three of them) was annually held by potters in Tho Ha at home.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

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In the 40s of the last century, Tho Ha pottery making was very developed.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

In the mid-60s of the last century, the population in the village developed, the pottery kilns consumed a lot of land and caused pollution, so the state established Da Vang Pottery Factory on the hilly area of \u200b\u200bLat village, 3 km from Tho Ha. To the North, all of Tho Ha’s pottery-making people became factory workers and received state salaries.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n