Dong Ho Village

The Eastern lake of Bac Ninh has long been famous for its valuable and distinctive paintings. This is also a place to attract thousands of visitors each year. Learn something about traditional craft villages in Bac Ninh - Dong Ho painting village.

Dong Ho Bac Ninh painting village is a famous village of folk paintings which located in Song Ho commune, Thuan Thanh district, Bac Ninh province about 35 km from Hanoi. Dong Ho village, sometimes the locals only call it Ho village, is located on the south bank of Duong River, next to Do Ho wharf.

Dong Ho Village

Dong Ho village is located right on the banks of the Duong River, once only a river from the river, which is the meaning in the sentence "There is a river of cool bathing in the painting". Today, due to the sedimentation of the river, it is quite far from the dike to the water's edge.

Dong Ho village in Bac Ninh has long been famous for its valuable and unique paintings. This is also a place to attract thousands of visitors each year. Learn something about traditional villages in Bac Ninh - Dong Ho painting village.

In addition to the features of the lines and composition, the folk style of Dong Ho painting is also in paper and color. Dong Ho painting paper is called a message paper: people crush the scallop shell, a thin-shelled shellfish in the sea, mixed with the lake. Furthermore, the lake is cooked from glutinous rice flour, or sticky rice, sometimes cooked with tapioca. Besides that the lake used to sweep the floor of the painting is often diluted from glutinous rice flour or tapioca, the lake cooked from glutinous rice flour is often used to paste and then use pine leaf broom to sweep on the paper.

In addition, the unique character of Dong Ho painting is the material of making paintings, handcrafted from natural materials available including paper made from mahogany trees, red from young bricks, colored. yellow from yellow scallops, black from burning bamboo leaves, white is milled from shells, snails and etc.

Dong Ho Village

Sometimes Dong Ho paintings are also decorated by artisans with instructions or romantic love poems. Just peeling each layer of cultural cysts present on every picture of Dong Ho is enough for us to see that the Vietnamese cultural capital is pure and pure, diverse and extremely unique.

Hope that after the post, tourists will have more useful information about Dong Ho village.