Coconut "Metamorphosis" 1001 style
It's normal, simple. However, items that require little ingenuity and creativity that first of all the pleasure, passion of the creator. If the former, one of the main ingredients for firewood or waste all this time, all products become valuable economic, aesthetic and cultural.
Coconut Festival at the entrance area, two giant coconut half opened, dried coconut layer plump, white funnel funnel. Curiosity will reveal a little more flair and creativity in the outer layer of whole coconut shells are woven coconut fiber.
Step inside the festival area, almost everyone is drawn to a thousand samples are "Metamorphosis" from stems, leaves, fruits, dates, until coconut, coconut water, coconut shell, coconut fiber, coco peat, coconut stems ... the festival organizing committee, said only coconut products have been featured more than 60 booths from all the districts. Souvenir is kind of handicrafts from coconut can easily turn off many chemicals, fun and fancy patterns. They are mostly grinding, carving, peeling bark which detailed the coconut, coconut shell, coconut body to create shape such as jewelry, chopsticks, spoon, fork, hair pins, hair combs, boat, boats, car, desk, chair, the teapot, cup, bowl ... Year of the Ox, focusing on topics buffaloes - animals have an important role in the Vietnam rice agriculture. The buffalo is the only entirely from coconut fiber material of the Year Industry (Cho Lach District), and especially the works of handicrafts from coconut trunk include the mother buffalo buffalo buffalo purple and baby are lying chewing grass An artist Aba (town). We gather together to express the wishes of the people of the prosperous and happy village where peace.
Festival as much impressed by the form of coconut handicrafts Vietnam Guiness registered as coir mats painting huge photo Rach Mieu bridge and two girls dressed in Vietnam, 6mx12m size, made from 450 kg of coconut fiber; the average on the 3-meter high giant assembled from many small pieces of coconut shells are put together; Mass tray made from coconut trunk ... The confectionery items made from coconut and palm trees contribute honoring Ben Tre coconut candy company record weighs 600 kg in East Asia. In addition, the Dragon souffle cake layer in attractive complex aromatic smell of coconut simplest way. It has rounded fullness as the full moon night with a diameter of two meters (over pie usually only 3 feet). In particular, the raw coconut cream, cake becomes fatty and very delicious features. Those who make that cake cake for offering sage ancestors, those who have cleared from the open world, has crystallized the essence culture in general and ethnic people for several hundred years on land already beloved isle, middle ground, holding coconuts homeland.
The value does not stop at the aesthetic beauty, exotic, diverse and charming village of Ben Tre but ardent love, the soul loving, faithful and far-reaching desire of man this place. They are gong to stick scraped away each coconut through each stage of the country's historical vicissitudes. And also some busy coconut battered them. So today, to the Coconut Festival, each of us share a sense of the coconut and its people are changing too.
