Phu Mau Flower Village (Phu Mau commune) is famous for the oldest and largest in Hue, providing ornamental flowers to neighboring provinces. Phu Mau flowers are planted in dozens of hectares in Vong Tri village, The Vinh, Thanh Tien, Tien Non.
The village grows flowers all year round, but is most vibrant during the Lunar New Year season. Most people's houses have their own flower gardens, they will plant and take care of flowers for 4 months, exporting around December 23. From about December 20, this place is busy with traders and tourists taking photos. Visitors tour the garden and take photos for free.
Traditional flowers in Phu Mau village include persimmons, daisies, marigolds, dahlias, coins ... When spring comes, all kinds of flowers bloom to make the scene more dreamy.
Thuy Xuan Incense Village is also a destination tourists should not miss when coming to Hue during Tet. This place is about 7 km from Hue City, located on the route to visit Tu Duc Mausoleum. Here, visitors will be able to admire, take photos with bundles of colorful incense feet, or buy them to display the altar.
Thuy Xuan incense village is famous for hundreds of years of incense making. People maintain incense making to keep their ancestors' profession, so it is friendly for visitors to visit and learn about the profession. Incense powder is often mixed from cinnamon chi, cardamom, cloves, eucalyptus, pine buds, cinnamon ... Therefore, since stepping foot in the village even though you have not seen the incense, visitors can smell the scent in the space.
Thanh Tien Confetti Village located in Phu Mau commune, Hoa Vang district. This is a famous destination for making paper flowers for hundreds of years. Every year, people here only make flowers in December, so there is also a tradition: "Blue blue red red yellow yellow. Every December, the whole village makes flowers." Duc Hieu shared that when coming here, entering any house, adults and children are like artisans, although farming, but skillful and talented hands.
The ancient custom of Hue people, every Tet paper flowers will be displayed in solemn places such as Trang Ong, Trang Ba, Mr. Apple ... Today, this belief also spreads to many localities such as Da Nang, Quang Tri. Paper flowers are dyed in five colors, combined into large trees. In addition, the people of Thanh Tien village also simulate realistic flowers such as lotus, wall, daisy ... just like the real thing.
When learning about Tet craft villages, visitors should not miss Dien Linh Village, the only village producing statues of Mr. Cong, Mr. Apple in Thua Thien Hue. The village belongs to Huong Vinh commune, Huong Tra town only produces this statue in December. But from the 7th to 8th month of the lunar calendar, they prepared clay to clean impurities and by October molded it.
The statue of Mr. Cong and Mr. Apple is shaped with two men sitting on 2 sides, she sits in the middle. The clay will be molded with ironwood then sun-dried and fired in a kiln. The finished figurine has a light red color, the producer will skillfully paint the color to create an eye-catching color before exporting to the market. Each day, a household furnace can heat up to 5,000 statues. The smell of burning from baked clay, the sound of statue molding in the village seemed to signal the arrival of spring.
On every Tet holiday, Ha Cang ginger jam village (Quang Phu commune, Quang Dien district) is red again. Not as large as the Kim Long region, dozens of households in Ha Cang village still maintain traditional professions. From the 10th lunar month every year they begin to make jam and peak November 12.
Ginger jam here is made from ginger root grown in the highlands of A Luoi, Hue, so it has a characteristic pungent taste. Ginger root after peeling, washing, thinly shavings will be soaked in lemon juice, then soaked in sugar and slugs on the fire. The stages are handmade, sophisticated by the elders, especially without preservatives. Visitors can directly watch the stages and buy them as gifts.
According to VnE