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Rustic beauty of Duong Lam village

Remote, ancient village of Duong Lam appeared before guests’ eyes seemed ancient. Village entrance to the tree that is more than 300 years old, is located right next to the lotus pond has caused many tourists to imagine many interesting things about this village. Going into the village, the scene tree wells that current residents, visitors to surprise. Hardly a village in Vietnam today preserved these unique characteristics. It seems all the old definition of rural villages Vietnamese culture are converging in Duong Lam.

Banean tree in Duong Lam village

Through the vicissitudes of time, the ancient village of Duong Lam still quietly nestled on modern life. Of course, this makes the characteristics of the village is the village road, ancient wells, roof, walls, laterite, laterite port old wooden door in each population, and then to the temples … are imbued rural Vietnam. Which also laterite, laterite fence also retrieve materials, and climb on the stone walls bees strange mystical vines, adorned in the quiet atmosphere and bar average in Duong Lam.

Tree, village gate village evokes many memories of Vietnam – Photo: Le Han

If visitors to Duong Lam on the rice harvest, the road stretches fragrant with the smell of straw make available thought of telecommunications origin. Therefore you’ll be completely relaxed before the air and scenery here, forget about how life’s worries rice – shirt – rice – money.

Duong Lam was conferred the national monument in 2005 and is the country’s first ancient village vestige.
Duong Lam has nearly 100 traditional old houses concentrated in the adjacent village as Mong, Eastern bright, Cam Thinh … Despite changes over time, but many traditions for hundreds of years people still preserved. Duong Lam also reserved a fairly extensive bibliography set to record the merits, the size of the characters worship of relics, the process of construction, renovation and embellishment to the well, and the whole record Copy those large village. Duong Lam

Ancient house in Duong Lam village

has many antiques through the ages, is the oldest inscription Worship bi States in Cam Lam, Hong Duc 4 (1473) Memorandum on the cult of Phung Hung, Sung Nghiem tablet compassion signed in Mia pagoda carved in Germany Long 6 (1634) recorded the restoration of the temple in 1632 … Or the Jiang family tree was compiled in Tu Duc 8 (1854) included 56 pages kanji, writing full preface, nicknames, work days lost generation … of the many tribes in the family is quite specific … People Duong Lam is also proud of the “holy land, masterpiece”, where the land is 2 King – 2 heroes nation as Phung Hung and Ngo Quyen; hometown of prominent diplomats Giang Van Minh and many other famous characters in history as Phan Ke Toai, Kieu Oanh Trade …

Oldest house sometimes up to 400 years old. Each house has its own unique characteristics make the overall Duong Lam ancient village even more expensive. People here the concept that from aquatic download, so every pitch is lower than the road, so that when it rains, water will converge to the yard and then exit the sewers. The ancients had fully intended to arrange village roads herringbone, with a spindle. Therefore, the villagers rarely lost anything.

In addition to rice like any other country, the traditional crafts of the people Duong Lam is do the job. House barns chum to do the front yard. Now when Duong Lam ancient village attracted tourists, people also do more traditional materials to introduce local confectionery.

The well in Duong Lam village

The preservation and promotion of intangible cultural heritage in Duong Lam focus on the field of: Environmental conservation ecology, natural landscape; preserved ancient village space; preserve ancient space; intangible cultural heritage closely connected with cultural heritage objects especially the ruins of religion and belief; preserve the cultural cuisine and customs. But pity for the ancient village of Duong Lam is a paved road in the village “is” it is replaced by the concrete does not match the architecture and landscape, ancient lost quite a lot of strokes. As well as within the village over there a couple of new house building. This is also a problem for the tourism management, how to harmonize conservation values history, culture, people and also ensure that their basic living rights. If power must mean every man for himself in the not too distant future Duong Lam ancient village just as nostalgic.

Source: www.vietnamtraveltour.net – Vietnam tour by Antonny

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