MV Bac Bling (Bac Ninh) by Hoa Minzy has brought domestic and foreign viewers to famous landmarks of Bac Ninh province, including Phu Lang pottery village with a history of nearly 800 years. With vivid images, both beautiful and sparkling, MV Bac Bling has captivated the audience with the beauty of the ancient Phu Lang pottery village.
MV Bac Bling (Bac Ninh) by Hoa Minzy takes the audience on a journey to discover typical historical and cultural sites of Bac Ninh province such as: Do Temple relic site, Quan Ho Theater, Ba Chua Kho Temple, Dau Pagoda, Phu Lang pottery village, Huu Chap village dike road with Quan Ho melodies, bustling festivals all year round...
MV Bac Bling (Bac Ninh) by Hoa Minzy has brought domestic and foreign viewers to famous landmarks of Bac Ninh, including Phu Lang pottery village with a history of nearly 800 years. Photo: NVCC
The simple, intimate beauty of Phu Lang pottery village has captivated the audience. Photo: NVCC
A scene in Hoa Minzy's MV Bac Bling was filmed next to a ceramic painting in Phu Lang. Photo: NVCC
In the MV Bac Bling, Hoa Minzy and her crew chose pottery making locations in Xom Cho, Phu Lang village, Thu Cong village pottery village, Doan Ket village pottery village in Phu Lang commune, Que Vo town, Bac Ninh province to film. The close-up of the tiled-roof house, the potter skillfully carving handmade pottery, the pottery kiln... from a new perspective - both beautiful and sparkling - has captivated the audience.
The MV Bac Bling has created a fever on social networking platforms with nearly 9.5 million views (as of 5:00 p.m. on March 4), contributing to promoting the beauty of Phu Lang ancient pottery village in particular and Bac Ninh tourism in general. With the "fever" of the MV Bac Bling, famous landmarks in Bac Ninh have become destinations that many people are looking for.
Phu Lang pottery village is located on the banks of the poetic Cau River and has a history of formation and development of nearly 800 years. According to the book “Kinh Bac – Ha Bac”, the founder of the pottery craft in Phu Lang was Luu Phong Tu. At the end of the Ly Dynasty, he was sent by the royal court as an envoy to other countries. During this trip, he learned the quintessence of pottery making and taught it to the people of Phu Lang pottery village.
Phu Lang pottery village has about 200 households with more than 1,000 people involved in pottery making. Handmade pottery making in Phu Lang requires meticulousness and dexterity and goes through many stages, from selecting and processing the soil, shaping, glazing to the process of firing the pottery with firewood.
Artisan Tran Thi Luan - an outstanding daughter of Phu Lang pottery village, although she is 94 years old, her eyes are still sharp and her hands are skillful in creating beautiful pots. Photo: Khuong Luc
Phu Lang pottery has its own unique characteristics. Along with the eel skin glaze color, the outstanding feature of Phu Lang pottery is the use of relief method in form. Photo: Khuong Luc
Previously, the people of Phu Lang pottery village mainly made jars, pots, and small earthenware pots... Since 2000, the young generation of artists in the village have continued to create many fine art ceramic products such as: ceramic relief paintings, ceramic statues, interior decorations, worship items... to meet the tastes of consumers.
If Tho Ha pottery is made from green clay “bones”, Bat Trang pottery is made from white clay, Phu Lang pottery is made from red clay “bones” from Thong Vat, Cung Khiem (Bac Giang). transported by river, then brought to the docks in Phu Lang village. After 4-5 stages of screening gravel and rocks, the soil will be smooth and flexible enough for craftsmen and artisans to shape and create ceramic products according to their ideas.
Phu Lang pottery has its own unique color, is carved, also known as double carving, natural glaze color, durable and unique; the shape of the pottery is rustic, rough but strong, containing the primitive beauty of earth and fire and very bold of sculpture. In 2016, Phu Lang pottery village was recognized as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Ms. Dang Thi Tam, owner of Minh Tam pottery production facility, said that the most special feature of Phu Lang pottery is the glaze made from forest ash and river mud. Phu Lang pottery products are coated with this glaze and fired at 1,200 degrees Celsius to create eel skin or cockroach wing glaze colors, depending on each family's recipe.
Artisan Nguyen Minh Ngoc - a young generation of Phu Lang village said that he still continues the tradition of his ancestors and all the young craftsmen in the village have the ambition to promote ceramic products suitable for craft village tourism. "Through tourism, we will promote the products and image of traditional craft villages better to domestic and international friends" - Mr. Ngoc said.
Phu Lang Pottery Village is one of three locations that the People's Committee of Bac Ninh province has oriented to develop into an OCOP tourism product associated with the National Target Program on New Rural Development. Photo: Khuong Luc
All the artisans and young workers in the industry have the ambition to promote ceramic products suitable for craft village tourism. Photo: Khuong Luc
According to Mr. Ngoc, Phu Lang ceramic products are becoming more modern and beautiful, not only for civil use but also for decoration. However, households in Phu Lang are still producing large-sized products, which consume a lot of land and firewood to fire the ceramics.
Realizing this inadequacy, artisans from Toho pottery village, Fukuoka prefecture, Japan directly instructed on Japanese pottery techniques combined with traditional techniques of Phu Lang craft village. After combining with Japanese pottery style, young artisans and workers in Phu Lang have made small-sized pottery products, aiming to serve domestic and international tourists with higher selling value.
Phu Lang Pottery Village is one of three locations that the People's Committee of Bac Ninh province has oriented to develop into an OCOP tourism product associated with the National Target Program on New Rural Development. This will promote Phu Lang Pottery Village to become a destination for craft village tourism and experiential tourism associated with famous OCOP products in Bac Ninh.
Because it is close to Hanoi, about 60km from the capital, Phu Lang pottery village has become a tourist destination attracting visitors from other places to visit and experience pottery making. With tiled-roof houses, pottery kilns and ceramic products from rustic to sophisticated, Phu Lang pottery village promises to be an ideal check-in spot for visitors from all over.
Source: https://danviet.vn/kham-pha-lang-gom-phu-lang-dep-lung-linh-trong-mv-bac-bling-cua-hoa-minzy-20250304115116733.htm
Comment (0)