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Location: Bat Trang Pottery Village is
located in the south east of Hanoi, passing Chuong Duong Bridge turns right and
go about 10km along the dike of Red River. Bat Trang belongs to Bat Trang
Commune, Gia Lam District, Hanoi.
Characteristic: This is a pottery village with a half-millenary historic
development.
Some decades recently, the vitality of this village is still blown up by the
thousands of pottery-kiln on fire day and night.In the period about 12th - 14th
century, there are a numbers of families in Bo Bat Pottery Village (in Thanh Hoa
Province now). They were Bui, Phung, Tran and Vu families coming there to work
pottery, selling it to people in city even doing business with foreigners. At
first, it was called Bach Ho Group and when there are the thousands of
pottery-kiln, it was called Bat Trang - the age of name is as approximately old
as the age of group. Who was the Bat Trang pottery ancestor? As a popular
documentary he is Hua Vinh Kieu who gained a pupil scholar certificate under the
reign of Ly. On the occasion of being sent to the north country under the Sung
Dynasty ( China today) as King�s envoy, he learnt work and taught to people
when he came back. He was regarded as the founder. But according to the "Dao
Tuong Kinh Su Bi Ky" epitaph, Tran Hoe Doctor in Tu Chi built it. Quy duke,
Nguyen Thanh Chau, in 1737. He was the founder. On the other theories, Luu
Phuong was said to be the founder... When it was seen on the Dai Viet
administrative map, Bat Trang products were got the favor of people from the top
citizen class in Thang Long to the poor peasant in country. Bat Trang family use
items gone far abroad. From the early 15th century, China was the place with the
tradition pottery work for the thousands of years and well known in the world
but there were ever the tens of Bat Trang pottery sets in the tribute festival.
Since then in every reign, in decline or prospect situations, Bat Trang Pottery
Village still assured the worth of goods, kept position and passed every trial.
It is proud of working, living, old origin in Bat Trang. In the Gia Lam proverb,
there is a word: "living to be man in Bat Trang, dying to be tutelary spirit"
that means it is very happy to be a man in Bat Trang because of the stable
pottery work, big fortune. In Kieu Ki Village, there was a work of making Indian
ink; material was the skin of buffalo. They had to kill buffalo and worship
tutelary spirit so this tutelary was well off. Bat Trang likes a symbol of
Vietnam traditional trade village. It is a famous trade village, recently, there
are over 6,000 people in 1,500 families with the total 153ha. The rate of
pottery kiln in Bat Trang is the first rank at the other same villages in the
world. Most men in Bat Trang follow the traditional work (nine of ten) except
for person leaving home. After over an innovation decade, many traditional trade
villages are recovered, the innovation and increase of Bat Trang Pottery Village
are increasing unbelievably. On the basic of tradition pottery technique, Bat
Trang pottery workers have taken - abused-propagated greatly the progress of
science technology into every stage in making pottery. It has made many types of
top class pottery, that is useful and beautiful and it upgrades the sense of
pottery art. The Bat Trang list of pottery getting high quality is longer more
and more by day like bowl, dish, pot, cup, wine pot, a big flower-vase, leg
lamp, lime-pot, big-bellied jar... It made by all sort of glazes as ancient
pearl blaze, crackle glaze, dark glaze, indigo-blue flower glaze, grey flower
glaze, melt glaze... In 10/2004, Bat Trang Pottery Market was opened in the area
of over 5.000m�. It is not only the place to display and trade but also an
interesting tourist site in Hanoi.
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