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Traditional handicraft villages
The most typical 15 traditional handicraft villages of Vietnam are represented on an area of 10,000m2, with manufacturing process, the landscape and very settings of the villages. The houses in these villages dated back to late 19th and early 20th century with banyan tree, the well and village temple, all with an aim to enchant visitors.

 

The traditional handicraft villages are arranged by areas of production. Each house in the are aims to:

+  Showcase live production, allowing visitors to directly take part in the process.

+  Display and sell products directly to visitors 

The products introduced and traded in the traditional handicraft villages include:

            1/ Van Phuc silk village

          2/ Precious stone paintings village

          3/ Phu Lang ceramic village

          4/ Gemstones, gold and precious metals processing village

          5/ Rattan products making village  

          6/ Porcelain village

          7/ Wood sculpture village

          8/ Bronze casting village

          9/ Dao tribe brocade-dying village

          10/ Thai tribe brocade weaving village

          11/ Fine art bag village

          12/ Wooden mosaic village

          13/ Embroidery village

          14/ Immitation antique village

The villages are organized with respect to:

     a/ Preserving old architecture of Vietnamese villages, meaning that the houses in the villages are those dated back to late XIX and early XX centuries and bought from their respective owners.

     b/ Preserving traditional man-made trade. Each village consists of a processing area from materials to finished products and a display area for its products.

     c/ The garden and interiors of each village characterizes itself as in late XIX and early XX centuries’ settings.

     d/ The villages has highlights such as banyan trees, wells, village and temple. The traditional handicraft village areas consists of the followings:

+ Village temple: The village temple is a XIX century house with an area of 440 m2, showing and trading products of its respective trade village. A front yard of 2,000 m2 which acts as a stage for traditional performances. There are water puppet shows – a cultural world heritage - every night. The village temple will also represent community activities of a typical Vietnamese village with village meeting, Cheo performance, Quan Ho (folk) songs etc ….

+ Floating temple: With a stand for 230 spectators, it is a performance stage for Vietnam’s special water puppet shows – a cultural world heritage.

+ Court yard: 2,000 m2 of ground which acts as a stage for traditional performances and open shows.

+ Puppet theatre: with regular puppet shows for domestic and international audience.

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