Vietnam Colors of life9

1. Colors of life

2. 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

6. 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

11. 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

17. Artisans making bamboo fish trap in a Thu Sy village in Hung Yen Province, northern Viet nam

20. 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

22. The most difficult job is finishing the trap by crossing the straps in a way to make an opening

23. 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

24. To use the tools, which are also found commonly in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, farmers apply the same principle: making them the only way by which freshwater creatures can go in the flow of water

25. 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

30. 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

31. 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

35. The omnipresence of aquatic traps has become the raison d’être for the Thu Sy tourism scene in recent years

36. Saigon Municipal Opera House

37. Riding bicycles for selling bamboo fish trap in Thu Sy trade village, Hung Yen, Hanoi

39. 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

42. Nowadays the fish traps can additionally be seen as quaint interior decorations

43. Exhibit in the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology - Hanoi

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45. 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-Leninist one-party socialist republic, one of the two communist states (the other being Laos) in Southeast Asia