Hai Duong fosters the cultural traditions of the homeland and country for the young generation

NDO - On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification Day, many kindergartens, primary schools, and secondary schools in Hai Duong organized experiential activities to help students better understand and remember the cultural values, heroic history, and traditional crafts of their homeland and country.

On April 23 and 25, Thanh Binh Primary School and Kindergarten (Hai Duong city) coordinated with Phoenix VietnamEducation Development Company Limited to organize the Experience Day "Traditional professions of my hometown Hai Duong" attracting the participation of 2,600 primary school students, preschool children and hundreds of teachers and parents of the two schools.

Nearly 2,000 students of Thanh Binh Primary School participated in the Traditional Profession Experience Day.

At the festival, the two schools organized dozens of booths simulating the production process, displaying and introducing dozens of items and traditional handicraft products of Hai Duong homeland.

Thanh Binh ward's Banh Giay and Gio Suot stall introduces the production process of traditional dishes imbued with the hometown flavor of Hai Duong people.

With a layer of fragrant sticky rice cake made from yellow sticky rice, combined with delicious, chewy pork sausage, this simple cake has become the pride of the people of Suot village. Not only attractive for its flavor, sticky rice cake, this place is also associated with the cultural beauty, about the traditional festival of Thanh Binh homeland every spring.

The artist introduces the skill of making clay figurines to students.

At the "to he" booth, a colorful folk toy made from sticky rice flour - has been an indispensable part of the childhood memories of many generations of Vietnamese people.

With skillful and talented fingers, the artisans have "breathed life" into each handful of dough, creating lovely figurines in the shape of buffaloes, dragons, Tam, Cuoi...

With the guidance of the artisans, children can mold their favorite animals and characters, and bring them home as a gift of childhood memories. Each work is not only beautiful but also carries within it a folk tale, a lesson about kindness, loyalty, and the pure joy of childhood.

Thanh Binh primary school students experience pounding rice cake.

Although the job of making gai cake is rustic and simple, it requires a lot of effort from the baker, from choosing gai leaves, soaking rice, pounding, mixing flour to the sweet and fatty filling made from mung beans, coconut, sesame, lard, sugar...

All are mixed together, wrapped in a layer of dried banana leaves, tied with soft strings, when steamed, the aroma fills a corner of the countryside. At this booth, students are guided by artisans to knead dough, roll cakes, wrap leaves like tiny craftsmen and immerse themselves in the countryside space.

Kindergarten teacher guides children in rolling rice noodles.

At the woodblock carving and printing experience corner, children can witness a unique traditional beauty. Woodblocks are our ancestors' "manual printers", where each carving and printing line carries the national spirit.

Here, children can admire traditional prints with folk motifs, Han Nom characters, and images of ancient customs; try printing a folk painting or simple motif on paper using manual techniques; and listen to stories about the history and story behind each woodblock.

5 year old children experience and watch "teacher" write calligraphy.

At the Traditional Craft Experience Day, students also "transformed" into young artisans making pottery, rice crackers, green bean cakes, green rice flakes, playing the role of "teachers" writing calligraphy, and participating in many useful and interesting folk games imbued with national cultural identity such as catching loach in a jar, blindfolded smashing a clay pot, playing "ball-playing", playing "o an quan"...

Through this activity, the schools hope to create a useful playground, helping students not only directly experience the production stages but also better understand the ingenuity and hard-working spirit of local people.

The Suot rice cake product at the Traditional Craft Festival was completed by preschool children and teachers in the pounding and shaping stages.

This is also an opportunity for children to foster their love for their homeland, appreciate traditional values, and at the same time inspire creativity and passion for discovery in each child.

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