Nuong village in Yen Tu (Photo: baoquangninh.com.vn)Setting foot in Nuong village of Yen Tu, visitors will be deeply impressed by the image of shops and stalls selling handicraft products of local trade villages such as conicalhat making, Dong Ho folk paintings, or bamboo dragonflies along two sidesof the road cutting through the village.
In his six-day trip to discover the beauty of the northernregion, Tran Hoang Dong, a tourist from the southern province of Dong Thap,travelled to Yen Tu. This is his second stop in Quang Ninh, after Ha Long Bay –a UNESCO-recognised World Natural Heritage. With only four hours in Yen Tu, hehad not much time for Nuong village, but it was still enough for him to trymaking bamboo dragonflies and colouring them by himself.
Bamboo dragonfly making in Nuong village (Photo: VNA)Local trade villages attract not only domestic tourists, butalso foreigners. Gaya Rota Baldezamo, a holiday-maker from the Phillippines,stated that during his working trip to Yen Tu in August 2019, she directly watch artisan Pham Thanh Luong in Uong Bi city’s Thuong Yen Cong commune makingconical hats by hand.
Nguyen Van Thai, Director of the Cultural Service Centre,Tung Lam Development Joint Stock Company, said that the company has madeefforts to restore and develop traditional craft villages, and give visitorsthe experience of being directly involved in the production process so that theycan better understand the value of traditional craft villages.
Determining that Vietnamese culture plays an important rolein the process of building new and attractive tourist products, all stalls and craftvillage activities in Nuong village are associated with the common image of thevillage and suitable to the Vietnamese culture.
Tung Lam company will continue the search for suitable craftvillages that meet the cultural, artistic and educational requirements to bring to visitors attractive cultural experiences and high-quality products.
Yen Tu Mountain is located about 50 kilometres from Ha LongCity. The area has awe-inspiring scenery, surrounded by ancient pagodas andhermitages.
It has been associated with the name and career of BuddhistKing Tran Nhan Tong (1258-1308), who founded the Truc Lam Zen sect bearing thetypical Buddhist culture of the Vietnamese people.
The third King of the Tran Dynasty ascended to the thronewhen he was just 21. He is famed for defeating Mongol invaders twice during his15-year reign.
The King abdicated when he was 35 and spent the rest of hislife in Yen Tu Mountain practicing and propagating Buddhism. He founded thefirst Vietnamese School of Buddhism called “Thien Tong” or Truc Lam Yen Tu Zen in the 1,068m-high Yen Tu Mountain. The 20,000ha site is considered the capitalof Vietnamese Buddhism.
Yen Tu became a major Buddhist centre and King Tran NhanTong became its first leader under the religious name Dieu Ngu Giac Hoang TranNhan Tong. He ordered the construction of hundreds of religious buildings onYen Tu Mountains for teaching and following a religious life.
Besides numerous temples, it also preserves many oldreligious and cultural documents such as precious prayer-books and monks’writings.
Yen Tu was officially listed as a special national relicsite in September 2012
The northern provinces of Quang Ninh, Hai Duong and BacGiang are joining hands to complete a scientific dossier on the Complex of YenTu Monuments and Landscapes in 2022, to seek UNESCO recognition of the locationas a world heritage site./.
It has been associated with the name and career of BuddhistKing Tran Nhan Tong (1258-1308), who founded the Truc Lam Zen sect bearing thetypical Buddhist culture of the Vietnamese people.
The third King of the Tran Dynasty ascended to the thronewhen he was just 21. He is famed for defeating Mongol invaders twice during his15-year reign.
The King abdicated when he was 35 and spent the rest of hislife in Yen Tu Mountain practicing and propagating Buddhism. He founded thefirst Vietnamese School of Buddhism called “Thien Tong” or Truc Lam Yen Tu Zen in the 1,068m-high Yen Tu Mountain. The 20,000ha site is considered the capitalof Vietnamese Buddhism.
Yen Tu became a major Buddhist centre and King Tran NhanTong became its first leader under the religious name Dieu Ngu Giac Hoang TranNhan Tong. He ordered the construction of hundreds of religious buildings onYen Tu Mountains for teaching and following a religious life.
Besides numerous temples, it also preserves many oldreligious and cultural documents such as precious prayer-books and monks’writings.
Yen Tu was officially listed as a special national relicsite in September 2012
The northern provinces of Quang Ninh, Hai Duong and BacGiang are joining hands to complete a scientific dossier on the Complex of YenTu Monuments and Landscapes in 2022, to seek UNESCO recognition of the locationas a world heritage site./.
VNA
