1. Write a letter to your pen friend about: your last visit to a craft village
Dear Lan,
I got a wonderful trip with Nam to Chang Son fan - making village last weekend.
For a long time, the Chang Son fan was not only a useful utensil in daily life, but also a beautiful image appearing in many poems, on stage and in the cultural and spiritual life. To make a beautiful and durable fan requires meticulousness and skillfulness from fan makers. Normally, the fan's blades are made from bamboo, which are at least three years old and grow in the middle of a grove.
Moreover, to make fans more durable, the fan makers use joined blades, which have to undergo many stages, such as cutting the bamboo into short pieces, scratching off its green cover, splitting the bark of bamboo and applying a layer of varnish between the slats. Then, they are tied up in a bunch.
After a few months when the layer of varnish is dry, the slats of bamboo are whittled to make the fan blades. Paper to make fans must be do (poonah) or diep (poonah paper covered with egg - shell powder) bought in Dong Ho Village, Bac Ninh Province. Looking at the Chang Son fans, only simple colours, such as green, red, violet and yellow are seen. However, when the fans are unfolded and seen in the light, all the delicate decorative pattern, and designs will appear lively and bright. To foreigners, they can see the characteristics of the Vietnamese people: simple but profound, and beautiful but discreet.
I am look forward to hearing from you
Best wishes,
Hoa
Nguồn: vietjack.com
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