Northern countryside imprint

For many people, the Northern countryside is a familiar and familiar image with village gates, banyan trees, ferry docks, communal houses, village pagodas, traditional festivals or rice fields stretching to the horizon. Along with that are the customs, habits and beliefs of the people in each village that create the soul of the Vietnamese countryside.

When the morning sun gently touches the village road, in the bamboo bushes the birds chirp like a love song celebrating the ripe rice season, this is the time when farmers go to the fields to harvest rice, then carry heavy loads of rice on their shoulders. The picture of nature suddenly brightens with the radiant smiles of women holding hands holding bundles of golden rice.

On a hot summer afternoon, childhood memories suddenly flooded back when I saw children happily going fishing and swimming in the pond. Nearby, the water hyacinth was stretching out its purple flowers, making the scene strangely peaceful and poetic.

And when the sunset falls, the blue smoke drifts by the house, bringing the peaceful beauty of the Northern countryside, mesmerizing the wandering footsteps of the traveler. It is also the memories and nostalgic images that make every child far from home, when restless with homesickness, look forward to the day they can return.

Besides the institutional structures of the village such as: banyan tree, ferry, communal house yard, almost every village has a pagoda. The pagoda is a symbol of the village's beliefs, almost no Northern village does not have a pagoda to worship Buddha. Village gate - the boundary affirming the living space and authority of a village, an ancient architectural work preserving many layers of cultural sediments in each village in the Northern region. Associated with the village gate are the banyan tree, the ferry, and the communal house yard - long-standing cultural and historical symbols of Vietnamese village traditions. According to statistics, our country has nearly 9,000 festivals, from communal house and village festivals to large traditional and cultural festivals, festivals that blend customs, practices, beliefs, and tangible cultural heritages in the Northern countryside, together creating a source of Vietnamese culture that flows forever and never runs dry.

Heritage Magazine