The palm trees are long-standing, too tall, making it difficult for people to climb up to get leaves and fruit, and the trunks are often hollow inside, making them easy to break and fall. Taking advantage of these palm tree trunks, families participating in community tourism in Nghia Do commune (Bao Yen district) have used them to decorate their houses and living spaces.
Homestay No. 1 Me Thieu, Ban Hon village is one of the attractive destinations for tourists when coming to Nghia Do. With a large garden, many green trees, a cool stilt house, next to Nam Cam stream, coming to Me Thieu, visitors can immerse themselves in the space of a traditional Tay family. To create more highlights for the homestay, the owner was creative, taking advantage of old palm tree trunks, designing and installing a system of light bulbs, lighting along the fence.
To make these lamps that both illuminate and decorate, Ms. Thuy's family used old palm trunks, choosing the part near the base of the tree. According to folk experience, old palm trunks are very durable, not susceptible to termites, and are locally available materials, environmentally friendly, and cost-effective.
During the day, the palm lamps look like wooden mushrooms, and at night the lights are turned on, making the homestay space sparkling and brilliant. The palm lamp system has been used for decoration at Me Thieu homestay for about two months now, many tourists who come here to relax are delighted and have a good impression of this creation.
Also using palm trunks to decorate the house, but Mrs. Co Thi Bay’s family in Muong Kem village used them to design a fence. The old palm trunks were split lengthwise into long, wide bars of about 20 cm, and fenced around the house garden. Together with the wooden gate, the palm-roofed house, the palm fence added harmony to the common space of the house.
Mrs. Co Thi Bay said: In the past, we only knew how to use palm leaves to roof houses, weave fans, palm stems to make blinds, palm fruits to eat, and old palm trunks and tall trees that could not be harvested for leaves and fruits would be cut down. Recently, when a cultural and tourism consultant from Bao Yen district came to guide us on how to use palm trunks to decorate our homes, my family used them to make palm fences and found them very useful.
In the coming time, Mrs. Bay's family will plant more medicinal plants in the garden inside the fence, both to preserve precious medicinal varieties and to make the garden greener, enhancing the beauty of the fence made from palm trunks.
For Mr. Hoang Van Che's family in Na Khuong village, creativity from palm tree trunks is applied to make flower pots. Choosing an old palm tree that grows too tall to cut the leaves, Mr. Che saws it into pieces about 1 meter long. Then he hollows out the trunk, fills the core with soil and plants flowers. In addition, he also uses the trunk to make a water trough, an item that is both environmentally friendly and in harmony with the traditional stilt house architecture.
Mr. Hoang Van Che confided: The characteristic of the palm tree trunk is that the bark is hard and strong, the core is soft and spongy. Therefore, the palm trunk is easy to hollow out, creating a hollow space inside, which can be used to grow flowers, or make water troughs, hand and foot wash basins, etc. for daily use in the family.
Nowadays, many families tend to decorate and design their houses in an environmentally friendly way. In particular, in Nghia Do, a locality that is preserving the traditional culture of the Tay people to build and develop tourism, environmentally friendly materials that are locally available are given priority. The use of old palm trunks to decorate the living space and welcome guests in the homestays in Nghia Do is carried out under the guidance of cultural and tourism consultants, so the applications are designed according to the model, ensuring both friendliness and aesthetics.
Through a survey of households providing homestay services at the community tourism site of Nghia Do commune, we found that families were consulted and guided by experts to design palm trunks for different purposes, without duplication, creating a distinct highlight at each homestay. Each design model created from palm trunks will "tell" an attractive story to visitors.
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