For a long time, Vi Khe village, Dien Xa commune, Nam Truc district has been famous throughout the country for its ornamental plant growing profession. Coming to Vi Khe ornamental plant village, many people cannot help but admire the artistic ornamental works with unique shapes.
Nearly 1,000-year-old craft village
Vi Khe ornamental plant village (Dien Xa commune, Nam Truc district, Nam Dinh) is a traditional craft village that has been around for more than 800 years and is known as the ancestral land of ornamental in Vietnam. Here, each tree is a work of art that is carefully shaped, trimmed, and cared for.
According to historical documents preserved by the locality, in 1211, the high ranking general of Ly Dynasty – To Trung Tu came here to live and work. Besides agricultural development, he also touch the local people the art of growing flowers and ornamental plants to make a long-term living. From then on, the flower and ornamental plant growing profession of the Vi Khe people began to take shape and develop to this day, with nearly 700 households practicing the profession.
Hundreds of years ago, very spring, the kings usually held contests to select the most beautiful ornamental plants. Many Vi Khe residents won high prizes. Therefore, Vi Khe village has become famous among flower and plant lovers.
The village of “strange flowers and rare herbs”
On the road leading to the village, on both sides are two rows of lush green trees with all kinds of trees, each tree has its own style of the gardener. The trees with different shapes and positions are meticulously and carefully pruned.
To create a beautiful ornamental, the artisan must spend several years to take care of a simple tree; it takes more than ten years for a tree with a complex shape and position. With meticulousness and perseverance in shaping, it takes many years for a bonsai to create a beautiful shape. Then, the artisans skillfully shaped the molds into shapes of birds, animals, One Pillar Pagoda, Khue Van Cac, Pho Minh Tower……
A bonsai in a shape of “Khue Van Cac”
A sample of Eiffel tower
With skillful and talented hands, the people of Vi Khe pay great attention to developing a variety of flowers and bonsai trees with high artistic, aesthetic and economic value. Vi Khe is considered the homeland of many flowers such as: camellias, orchids, peach, rhododendrons… Hundreds of other flower species are also grown here such as: chrysanthemums, dahlia, gerbera… But for the Kumquat tree, it can be said that Vi Khe is the original kumquat village of Vietnam.
In Vi Khe today, every house has a beautiful flower garden and bonsai with brilliant colors of green, red, purple, yellow,… of flowers along with tree shapes and forms that have high aesthetic value and great economic value such as: ficus benjamina, podocarpus macrophyllus, banyan, ficus racemosa….
Many types of tree shapes and forms are created by artisans in the village, reaching a sophisticated, sharp level with high artistic value. At its peak, Vi Khe had bonsai sets worth of billions of VND.
A bonsai tree for sale from 7 billion VND
Many types of bonsai of Vi Khe have been displayed and participated in exhibitions at home and abroad and have all won high awards, in which flowers and ornamental plants of Vi Khe won high awards. Every year, hundreds of domestic and international delegations come to Vi Khe to visit, study and buy flowers and ornamental plants.
Currently, Vi Khe ornamental plants have been transported to all parts of the country to contribute to beautifying the homeland, creating a green – clean – beautiful environment, as well as exporting to China, Laos, Cambodia, etc.
Source: collected by An
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