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Ngũ Xã Village bronze casters
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06/11/2010 | 11:32 AM
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VGP - Ngũ Xã now belongs to Trúc Bạch Ward in Ba Đình District, Hà Nội. In the 18th and 19th centuries bronze casters from five communes (Đông Mai, Châu Mỹ, Long Thượng, Đào Viên and Dien Tien) in Siêu Loại District (now Thuận Thành, Bắc Ninh Province) and Văn Lâm District, Hưng Yên Province came to Trúc Bạch Lake to set up business and establish the Ngũ Xã school for bronze-casting.
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Hàng Gai
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06/04/2010 | 11:00 AM
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VGP - Both Hàng Hòm and Hàng Mành turn into Hà Nội’s luxury shopping street, Hàng Gai, known to foreigners as Silk Street. In the fifteenth century this street sold rope and jute products, but from the nineteenth century, wood block printing came to Hàng Gai.
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Hàng Quạt-Hàng Hòm-Hàng Mành
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06/04/2010 | 10:17 AM
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VGP - Naturally in a hot, humid climate, fan making in Hà Nội became a highly specialized traditional craft. There were paper fans, thin silk fans, duck feather fans, fans made using bone frames, ivory frames and bamboo frames – and fans so dedicatedly pierced that they shimmered like silk when the sun shown through, There were even fans for separating rice from the husks.
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Hàng Thiếc
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06/04/2010 | 10:11 AM
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VGP - The noisiest street in town – and that’s saying something in the Old Quarter. Hàng Thiếc (Tinsmith) Street originally made oil lamps, candlesticks, teapots and metal boxes. The tinsmiths here still work with sheet metal as well as selling mirrors and glass, a spin-off from tinsmithing, as tin was used to blacken the back of mirrors. Before glass mirrors, bronze and tin were highly polished as mirrors.
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Hàng Ngang
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06/04/2010 | 9:53 AM
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VGP - As early as the Lê Dynasty when Thăng Long was still a new capital, Chinese merchants were allowed to live and trade here. Many, mostly from Canton, lived in Hàng Ngang. The oldest houses built in the original style are at Nos. 29, 33 and 43 and on the even side, Nos. 4 and 52, now a wee, tile-roofed clothes shop.