Kim Son Handicraft Kim Son Ninh Binh

Seagrass growing and weaving sedge products are becoming very important traditional jobs in Kim Son. This is an indispensable profession for the majority of the working people. This traditional craft has not had its roots as far as some old handicrafts (weaving, embroidery, stone carving, carpentry ... in the province), but have also gone through many generations of people.

In 1829, Kim Son, the "Nui Vang" district, as the name was founded by Nguyen Cong Tru, talented enumerator. He wrote two verses that would later become his life motto: “Has earned a reputation in heaven and earth. What must have a list with the mountains and rivers". That "name" is the great industry that leaves the posterity forever, of a visionary and big-minded person, that has turned the potential of a vast, fertile coastal area into a real "golden mountain", made of trees, rice, sedge and the marine economy. Since then, the Kim Son people along with many successive generations, opened the land seven times, encroached the sea, "Painting and creating together". The most extensive area of reclamation is the Binh Minh Farm, which was opened in 1954, with the efforts of 304th division masters. Recently, in 1981, 1982, 1983,

Since the beginning of Nguyen Cong Tru's unexplored work, the sedge tree grows here and there mixed with tiger and parrot on the wide, wild beach. Seagrass plants grow in the wilderness, have the tops shrink, the original part, raft to three corners. This type is used to weave coarse mats or sedge mats. And the papyrus is grown and cared for in the field with round, slender trunks from the root to the top, which can weave high-class goods such as bean mats, mustard mats, checkered flags. In the past, Kim Son sedge was mainly exported to Eastern European countries. Today, countries of the Soviet Union (former) and Denmark, Norway, Japan, China still import sedge Kim Son sedge in significant quantities.

Seagrass plants have growth cycles like rice. Seagrass sedge harvests on the occasion of May, sedge the season on October (lunar calendar). After the seagrass has wilted, the white parrot blooms on the vast beach. The seagrass flowers are brown, idyllic, dropping pollen by the breeze, spreading throughout the sedge in the harvest season, faintly mellow. The process of growing sedge is similar to that of rice: plowing, cultivating, drying, draining, sedge transplanting, then weeding, sludge, fertilizing. The quality of sedge grown depends significantly on the coordination of salt water and fresh water in appropriate, harmonious proportions. Irrigation system for the cultivation of sedge is as important as rice.

 

The current yield of sedge is about 5-10 tons of dry sedge / 1ha. However, if accounting according to makettinh, sedge cultivation is more economical than rice cultivation. Once sedge culture, can give 4-5 times to harvest. On the other hand, sedge is the material to create jobs for sedge weaving villages. The famous trade villages: Thuong Kiem (near the town of Phat Diem), was the place where the first matrimony product was born. Kien Thai, Dong Dac, Yen Binh, Yen Loc, Tay Bac, Van Hai, My Hop, Tan Khan ... These are the famous sedge mat weaving villages. The sedge mat products from there moved around the country and abroad. On the "open land" of Kim Son, the papyrus is soft and shiny, acting as a thread connecting the sea with the shore; between the industrious, healthy people and the abundance of nature. Seagrass is also the thread connecting Kim Son with other regions in the country and around the world, Not a small contribution to economic development, culture and tourism. The strength of sedge growing and weaving sedge in Kim Son is the production of essential consumer products of the people. Therefore, this job, although hard, does not go away. Seagrass here is also the "vanguard" encroaching on the sea, conquering nature. The slogan "rice rush sedge" sedge "sea encroachment" is the motto of conquering nature of thousands of people Kim Son