Mid-Autumn toy making village in Hung Yen
15:36 | 11/09/2019
Nearly 40 km from Hanoi, Hao village in the northern province of Hung Yen, is busy in preparations, these days, for the upcoming mid-Autumn Festival.
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Hao village in Khoai Chau district, Hung Yen provine, with hundreds of years of history, is one of Vietnam’s most famous villages for making traditional toys for mid-Autumn Festival
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According to village elders, nobody knows exactly when tanning became the Hao village’s traditional craft, but they are all sure that drum-making for children for the mid-Autumn festival has been shaped for more than 100 years
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The villagers mostly use water buffalo skin bought from other localities to make drums
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Hao villagers make mid-Autumn toys all year round, but are at their busiest during the sixth and seventh months, to prepare for wholesale to other localities
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Other traditional toys like masks, lion heads, and uncle Teu (a typical puppet in Vietnamese water puppetry) are handmade
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The Mid-Autumn Festival falls on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, and is a major traditional festival of many Asian countries. In Vietnam, it is also a special festival for children who are presented with toy drums, masks, star-shaped lanterns
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