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A few villages in northern Vietnam are famous for
maintaining its traditional craft of manually
producing bamboo underwater traps over the past
more or less 200 years
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The villages are collectively named Thu Sy
because they all sit in the Thu Sy Commune in
Hung Yen Province, about 54 kilometers to the
southeast of capital Hanoi
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In the rural tranquility occasionally disturbed
by rooster crows and canine barks, craftspeople
sit at their homes weaving traps from strips of
bamboo and flexible wood of a palm species called
calamus
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Artisans making bamboo fish trap in a Thu Sy
village in Hung Yen Province, northern Viet nam
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The items, resembling an elongated spheroid, can
be called fish traps for short but they can
actually catch other aquatic creatures such as
crabs and eels as the objects have two openings
of different sizes that prevent the victims from
escaping
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The most difficult job is finishing the trap by
crossing the straps in a way to make an opening
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It takes around an hour for one trap to be
completed, and then it may be placed high above a
stove to so that the object can be smoked to be
more durable and alga-proof, and take on a
blackish hue as a byproduct
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To use the tools, which are also found commonly
in Vietnams Mekong Delta, farmers apply the same
principle making them the only way by which
freshwater creatures can go in the flow of water
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The Thu Sy cluster of villages has 500 people
making a living by producing fish traps and many
of them have spent most of their life time this
way
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The Thu Sy cluster of villages has 500 people
making a living by producing fish traps and many
of them have spent most of their life time this
way
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Stand fish trap fetch VND20,000-25,000 (0.9-1.1)
while smoked ones sell for VND30,000-40,000
(1.3-1.8) apiece
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The omnipresence of aquatic traps has become the
raison dêtre for the Thu Sy tourism scene in
recent years
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Saigon Municipal Opera House
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Riding bicycles for selling bamboo fish trap in
Thu Sy trade village, Hung Yen, Hanoi
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Old man riding bicycles for selling wicker
craftsman making traditional bamboo fish trap or
weave on the green rice field in Thu Sy trade
village, Hung Yen, Hanoi
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Nowadays the fish traps can additionally be seen
as quaint interior decorations
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Exhibit in the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology - Hanoi
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Sound Tieng sao tren nuong - Vietnamese
Traditional Bamboo Flute
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Vietnam (sometimes written as Viet Nam),
officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is
located at the eastern edge of the Indochinese
Peninsula, and is divided into 58 provinces and
five municipalities, covering 331,699 square
kilometres, with a population of over 96 million
inhabitants, making it the world's sixteenth-most
populous country. Vietnam is a unitary Marxist-Len
inist one-party socialist republic, one of the
two communist states (the other being Laos)
in Southeast Asia
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