Chang Son commune, Thach That district previously had its public name as Nua Chang. The word “Chang” originated from the name of an old carpentry tool – Chang Chay chisel. Chang Son is wellknown all over Doai region for its hundred craft products namely: Fan making; statute carving; painting; carpentry, and traditional wooden house building. It has not been known when the carpentry started, but the carpentry in Chang Son is heard to come into being and has been existing since Hung King reign till nowadays.
Designs carved manually to make them more.
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Carpentry skills in Chang Son hamlet has its quite differrence in the fixture of wooden joints. It is not to use nails, but completely a combination of wooden joints and the main girders. The wooden joints made in Chang son are tight, sharp, and durable. The complicatedness and dexteriousness in designs carving are also making the core values of the craft village. The famous architecture work which had been built long time ago is Tay Phuong pagoda with 18 Arhat statues. Only with trunks with no soul, by the creative and skillful hands, the carpenter in Chang Son spiritualizes the wood trunk to make it into an artistic work of deep complicatedness and dexteriousness.
Partial specifications of the wooden house’s inner roof.
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According to the craft village’s artisan, the erection of a traditional wooden house is a hard job. If you wanted to become a good craftsman, it would take at least 5 to 7 years. To be able to reach the level of the artisan’s, besides the industiousness and cleverness, and job affinity, it is necessary to spend the whole life to learn. And to be able to heve soulful carvings, Chang village’s workers have to take full grasps of the hereditery secrets and sole techniques that nowhere is easy to find. Therefore, each product in the pipeline of Chang Son carpentry village is always of high quality and well received. The most popular works are 3 or 5 spaced wooden house, family tree worship house, temple, pagoda, worship hall…everywhere in the country.
Traditional wooden house situated in hamorny with the yard, garden and outside settings.
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The craft of wooden house making in Chang Son has been bringing widespread the traditional cultural values to all the corders of the country. It is hoped that this fine tradition will continue to be kept on forever.
Ngoc Tram