Situated along the bank of Red river, Ninh So is the land of ratan bamboo products, following the old people said that three hundred years ago, main living was on fishing in the river so firstly they made equipment from bamboo and ratan catch fish to need their own demand. With first experient, talent, skillful, hardworking artisans, their product was not only enough for their own need but also was sale on the other neighbouring villages.
In English, we call as bamboo and ratan which have other same family with names as Nua, Giang, Lung… but these are more flexible and pipe is much longer. This work needs craftsmen to choose the young or old bamboo how to be suitable for each product, also to be aesthetical to use the nife to split the flat, thin bamboo being equivalent to each other for being well painting, drawing and excellent product later on.
Nowaday, Chinese products was made series from machine, the quality following the price is very cheap, when we buy two products from China and Here, that will be totally different, one we can use one or two months, another one we can keepsake to memorize and be proud to bey the real fine arts
And great to come here to see the whole process from the techniques to choose bamboo and deep in water how long is good and prevent the rotten from the insects…. Or eye witnessing the professional artisans here make the sophisticated product from baboo the same as picture of portrait or landscapes. This bamboo products here is not normal meaning as the other one, these considered as fine arts that is the reason why we recoomend tourist should come here to see the real art for making baboo handicraft hanmade from the artisans. This proves to be new attractive destination for tourism in Hanoi and Vietnam and potential life for people here.