Interesting things about Bat Trang Pottery Village

Bat Trang Pottery Village is located on the left bank of the Red River, now in Bat Trang Commune, Gia Lam District, Hanoi, more than 10km southeast of the city center. This is a traditional village famous for ceramic products.

This craft village was formed during the Ly Dynasty. In his work "Due Ge Chi", Nguyen Trai clearly stated that the village's products were selected as Chinese tributes. Experiencing more than 500 years of history with many ups and downs at the same time, the name Bat Trang still exists and is growing until now.

Join us to discover surprises from this 500-year-old pottery village!

Founder of Bat Trang Pottery Village

According to historical records, this traditional craft village was formed in the XIV - XV centuries, during the Ly Dynasty. The birth of this Bat Trang pottery village in Hanoi is due to 5 famous pottery families including Tran, Vuong, Nguyen, Le, Pham in Bo Bat pottery village, Ninh Binh province, who brought ceramic artists to the business. Thang Long citadel for development. These 5 families have combined to produce pottery, thereby establishing Bat Trang pottery village.

Village without a field

The village was unique because it was a Vietnamese village without a field. Simply because the village was outside the dyke, in the past there was only a river bank, but when the river bank was lost, there was no longer any arable land. Therefore, villagers mainly live by pottery, trading in dried areca, fish sauce.

In order to have land to bury the deceased, the Village had to borrow land from neighboring villages. The cemetery of the village is now located in Thuan Ton village, Da Ton commune, Gia Lam district. The village also doesn't go to grave digging in the morning class as usual, but goes to dig graves on January 6 on the occasion of the children returning home to celebrate the Lunar New Year.

Village without bamboo

A Vietnamese village without a single bamboo tree, even for a fence. Simply because the land is tight, the people are crowded, and there are Bat Trang bricks available, so the walls of the houses in the village are built of bricks, including the walls built with Bat Trang bricks.

The village is also unique because there are no thatched houses in the village. Simply the profession of making a kiln, when the kiln goes "on the beans", that is, the trot stage of the kiln firing, the fire rushes to the highest furnace, burning up, scattering, if it is a leaf house, there will be a fire right away. .

The village has many passers-by

Bat Trang village is also unique because in the feudal dynasties there were many people who achieved great achievements. In total, the village has had 364 people pass from three schools (ie Baccalaureate) or more, including 8 PhDs and one poinsettia. The village also has many people who are conferred to marquis, duke….

Currently, the village still circulates rhymes, which include the sentence:

“Bat Trang village is a civilized village”

The capital is famous far and near

The court martial arts officials

Duke, Doctorate, Bachelor, Baccalaureate…

Women are appreciated

The village is very proud of the important role women play in every family. Simply because the village girl is very brave, famous for pampering her husband and raising children. Almost everything, big and small, is done by the ladies. Therefore, if the Bat Trang man does not spend time worrying about his studies, he is completely free to enjoy all the pleasures of life.

The village is very proud because the villagers are all related to each other. If not paternal, then also maternal. Simply because village girls are very brave, boys and girls in the village rarely marry people. Therefore, when seeing off their children from marriage, the elders always warn their children and grandchildren, "If you are rude to your husband's relatives, you will be disrespectful to our own family."

The attractions of Bat Trang Pottery Village

Bat Trang Pottery Market

Bat Trang Pottery Market is the first place that you should visit in your itinerary. Each stall is displayed with all kinds of items from ceramics to handicraft products, souvenirs, etc. This "maze" space also helps you to have impressive and funny pictures.

The prices of items at the market are also very diverse, from popular products costing only a few tens of thousands of dong to high-end products costing up to tens of millions of dong, meeting all the needs of consumers.

Bat Trang ancient village.

Coming to Bat Trang ancient village, visitors will admire the ancient features left from old houses, brick walls of the old village, curved communal house roofs, etc. All bring an ancient space like going back to back. childhood back. You can also freely capture the beauty of this place with pictures that can be taken anywhere.

Bat Trang ancient house

The ancient house of Van is located at the end of Bat Trang pottery village. Here are displayed the ancient products of Bat Trang pottery village such as dragon jars, blue enamel pots, ceramic stamping molds, etc. In addition to these antiques, the architecture of this ancient house is also of special interest. . With an area of ​​more than 400m2, including 3 old houses and a workshop simulating a nearly 200-year-old pottery kiln, it brings curiosity and excitement to visitors.

Ride a buffalo cart to visit Bat Trang pottery village

If compared with some other special tourist vehicles such as horse-drawn carriages in Nha Trang, Da Lat, cyclos in Hanoi and Hue; Bicycles in the Mekong Delta... then buffalo carts have many interesting points of their own, especially for foreign tourists.

The good wooden buffalo carts, with enough space for 10-12 people to sit, are gracefully designed and covered. Buffaloes to pull carts must also be large, strong buffaloes, washed clean and faintly smelled of perfume.

You only have to pay the full package once and comfortably enter the pottery workshops, ancient houses, galleries, markets... when guests want to stop anywhere, the car owner will wait there, as long as it takes.