Bat Trang, a culture
After expanding the boundary, Ha Noi capital has more than 1000 trade villages, but there is no village with high age and culture such as Bat Trang Bat Trang pottery village, a culture
After expanding the boundary, Hanoi has more than 1000 trade villages, but no village has high age and cultural thickness as Bat Trang pottery village.
Bat Trang's products went into poetry and literature. Remember that twenty years ago, my unit had a soldier named Pham Dinh Minh from Bat Trang, who fought bravely and was rewarded with the feat of victory at the southwest border. As the commander, I suggested that Minh go to the army school to train as an officer. He thanks but a refusal to say that the fight for the children to go to the countryside to continue to follow the ceramics. Minh also specify the address to invite me later have the opportunity to play. Recently, retired and also spare, remember the words Minh said, I made a pilgrimage to Bat Trang to visit his old soldier. Come here, find out the situation I'm new why he love the job so porcelain.
Since ancient times, this place is a large land of Kinh Bac. Cai River (Red River) flows through the side of the landslide to form the front yard, outside the dike Kinh Di. Gradually, this water-filled lagoon is now a lotus pond. Alluvial ground available so -called white ground. At the end of the Ly dynasty, the beginning of the Tran dynasty in the thirteenth century, there was a terra cotta profession. In the 16th century, Le Trung Hung soldier dissipated the Mac. Some people of the Pham - Le - Tran - Nguyen - Vuong family from Thanh village went to the north to live in Bach Tho ward, including the Nguyen family carrying glazed ceramics. Infused into jars. Two communities of people living in Kinh Bac and Thanh Hoa together with the poor gathered together to make Chi Do dishes professional dishes.
Over the years, white soil and fuel are scarce, skilled workers to old age die down, pottery village lieu . Tau's porcelain spilled into the mass. But then the whirlwinds also passed, the village of Doi Choi stayed strong and developed. People are crowded, the boundary has been defined, residents of the village to send him to the court to be named Bat Trang. From making bricks and jars, turning to ceramics. Every year the village strengthens, goods are made beautiful, cheap sell gradually pushed the ship to Mong Cai. Dishes can not enter the Kinh Bac - Thang Long, the bowl of the Chinese in Mong Cai is called the bowl, while the bowl is Bat Trang's production. Today in the middle of the city still has a street bearing the ancient name: Bat Dan Street.
Among the Thanh Hoa people who flocked to this settlement, Nguyen Ninh Trang was the earliest, so the Bat Trang people honored the Nguyen family as their ancestors. The status of literature kept in the communal house also named many grapes here have passed the doctorate. In the family there is a pair of sentences clearly stating " It means "To keep the virtue must develop pottery and teaching, wine must finish singing peacefully". It is clear that the predecessors of the old Bat Trang attach importance to the spirit of the career soul, finding all the good things to keep the village harmony happy. Bat Trang people are rich but still virtuous. Brick bowl is sold, there are side, side (now called promotional) do not receive more money. Dishes do not tie the dozen because sellers never put bad goods in the middle of the string as elsewhere.
Now the ancient Bat Trang village has over 700 years of history, transforming itself into urbanization in a residential area of 50 hectares with 1100 pottery kilns of 1233 households, over 5000 people and 3,000 people from another place to work as hired. Due to the exhausted material source, Bat Trang must annually import 100,000 tons of white soil and 85,000 tons of coal to make the products more beautiful and diversified. Thanks to the mind, the virtue as the basis of culture, with the prestige as a key in business production, Bat Trang ceramics have confirmed the prestige of its brand, Bat Trang porcelain has reached out. The foreign market is just like the couple in the communal house: "The craft of making bowls, the mud of precious metals / The fire of cast coal, the land of gold" Vietnam pottery
