The hot May sun seemed to exhaust people, but salt people in Chau Ha village, Thach Chau commune (Loc Ha – Ha Tinh) were still busy in the salt fields. For them, the sun is a privilege that nature has bestowed to make the salt crop more bountiful. The peak sunshine of May makes many people uncomfortable, but for the salt people of Chau Ha it is the favor of nature, because the hot sun means that they will have a salt season… The salt season in Chau Ha usually starts from April to August. In order to make white salt grains, the salt people in Chau Ha often start working from early morning to early evening. They go to the fields early to pour the filtered sea water from the previous day on the sun-dried umbrellas. In the midst of the sweltering sun, the wind blowing fiercely, and the salty taste in the face, Mr. Nguyen Hong Tuan (SN 1958) still worked hard at each stage. Mr. Tuan’s family makes 5 sao of salt. Every day, he and his wife start work from 5 am to 6 pm. According to Mr. Tuan, to make a batch of salt must go through many stages and every stage is hard and laborious. Starting from preparing the field, compacting the soil, taking sea water into the field, drying the sand, soaking the sand, settling and filtering the water and then scooping it up into the drying box. Just a full day in the sun, the white crystals of salt gradually appear in each box under each golden sun. Working with the profession for more than 40 years, Mr. Tuan shared: “The salt industry is very hard. If you work hard, this job also helps the salt farmers to have more money in and out of the fields, although they are not rich, but it is enough to cover their lives. This season, my family makes 5 sao, after the end of the season, the output is about 35 tons of salt. With the price of 1,200 VND/kg, this year’s salt crop my family earns a good income. The salt industry depends on the weather, so during the growing season, from morning to night, Mr. Tuan and other salt farmers in the village can only rest for more than an hour, the rest are always anxious to watch the sun and rain. , standing in the field. Mr. Tuan confided: “Good harvest is also thanks to God, bad is also because of God. There are years when the salt season comes to harvest only a few times, then it rains heavily, in a moment the salt fields become a vast, white sea of ​​water, the salt people can only stand at the door and look out.. .”. For many people, the heat is “harsh”, but for the salt people, every year there is a lot of rain and storm, and the sun is low, people are restless. Because this is a job that requires a lot of sunshine. Contrary to most other occupations, intense sunshine and prolonged sunny days are always the desire of the salt people of Chau Ha in the salt fields. Although at the age of “near the land, far from the sky”, Nguyen Thi Chat (81 years old) still tries to make 1.5 sao of salt to earn extra income. Every day, from 5 a.m., Mr. Cho’s hand had to take a handful of shovels, trailers, drinking water… to go to the fields to make salt. Holding a hydrometer to measure the salinity of water, Mr. Chot shared: “The salt profession is so arduous, when it’s sunny, people rest, I carry tools to the field to do it immediately, then my feet will be dark until dark. just homed. On sunny days, if I work hard, I can collect more than 1 quintal of salt, giving an income of more than 100,000 VND. Mr. Chot said, from 12 am to 14 pm is the time when people use a tool to measure the salinity of sea water to determine the salt concentration, when the salinity in the water reaches 20 degrees, the salt people put water into the filter system. for salt production. If it’s sunny, you can also put salt in this layer or another layer, but if it’s not sunny, it’s not too crowded. Sometimes in the middle of the main crop, the unseasonal rains suddenly come, how much effort is successful… in the wild. When he was tired and sweaty, he went to a temporary shack next to the salt field to rest and drink water to regain strength. More than 70 years of salt production, which means that Uncle Ching has gone through 70 harsh summers, but he has never tried to measure the temperature of the salt field at noon, only knowing that the more sweat he sweats, the hotter the sun. the more salt you can harvest. Salt begins to crystallize at about 2pm every day, at this time, salt people rush to start harvesting. Each square of pure white salt is like “pearls” carefully collected by the salt people. According to many salt people, the price of salt for many years has not escaped the fluctuations, up and down. The chorus of good harvests, losing prices, keeps hanging around with the salt people here. At the beginning of the season, little salt, many small traders come to the fields to ask to buy. In the middle of the season, salt is “crushed” as the price. On sunny days 39 – 40 degrees Celsius, the salt field evaporates, despite the saltiness of the salt and the heat like frying a frying pan in the face every day, the salt people of Chau Ha still persistently beam their bare feet under the salt fields. . Perhaps, there is no profession that oozes hot oil like salt making. The salty white salt is the crystallization of the taste of the sea and the sweat of the salt people in the fields. The people of Chau Ha have for many generations still buckling “carrying the sun”, carrying the hardships of life on their shoulders. And for them, making salt is not only an income but also to preserve the traditional profession… Currently, the whole village of Chau Ha has about 110 households engaged in salt production, with a total area of ​​more than 13 hectares. The salt industry here has been around for more than 50 years, since the salt industry has helped many families here stabilize their lives, raise their children to study and grow up. That said, but the salt makers in Chau Ha now only have “aged” men and women attached to the profession. Mr. Nguyen Minh Chau (SN 1961) confided: “The young people in the village when they finish high school, if they don’t go to university or college, they all go to the South to settle down, in the salt fields now there are only shadows of the old people. old person. I know that making salt is not a high income, but I and many other households in the village are not willing to give up, because I want to keep the traditional profession of my forefathers.” With more than 30 years of working with the salt industry, Ms. Le Thi Ty (born in 1962) said: “The salt industry depends on the “sunshine”, the consumption is precarious, we always expect the authorities at all levels to have policies to support farmers in finding a stable consumption market, so that the salt industry will not be lost or abandoned. According to Ms. Ty, over the years, the salt people here have tasted the bitterness of salt making, but if they don’t make salt, they don’t know what to do, because they have no agricultural land and no side jobs. How many things must be carried on the back of the salt grain, so that the output and price are stable, not being forced by traders, which is the biggest desire of the salt people today. According to many salt farmers, the price of salt goes up and down erratically, many people when the salt season ends, they have to turn to other seasonal jobs such as construction workers, porters, fishers… to make a living. Even so, all of them still did not give up the salt profession because the hard work and saltiness in the fields late at night had soon become familiar to them. With their hard work and love for their profession, the people who are “hot team, looking forward to the sky” in Chau Ha salt fields are day by day refining the essence of the sea to make a living and keep their jobs. Sticking with a grain of salt, the lives of the salt people here are still full of hardship and hardship, however, showing up on each of their faces is always an optimistic smile. Ms. Le Thi Chau (SN 1963) shared: “My family has 3 children, but none of them follow in the footsteps of their parents in doing traditional jobs. My husband often jokes: “Let’s work hard until our eyes are open and our hands are not shaken to keep the job, so that we can’t support the job that has supported our whole family for most of our lives”. As for health, my wife and I will not quit our job, quit complaining.” For the salt people of Chau Ha, the white salt warehouses are the “gift burdens” that the sea and sunshine bestowed on them. And perhaps, for that reason, although the salt industry is hard and precarious, the salt people here still do not want to give up their job, on the contrary, they see salt as a part of life.

How to distinguish real – fake incense? Illustration Mr. Bien Quoc Dung, Vice Chairman of Khanh Hoa Agarwood Association: Raw materials for making agarwood products today are mainly natural and artificial incense. However, natural frankincense is very precious, rare, high cost, so very few establishments make products from this type of agar. The main product is made from artificial agarwood, which is gourd plant grown and cultivated with agarwood. It takes 10 years for the seedlings to be planted until the time they can be drilled. After transplanting agarwood, it takes about 5 years to create agarwood, but not every tree after transplanting produces agarwood, the success rate is relatively low. Therefore, artificial bass is also very precious and the price is quite high. One characteristic of basswood is that it is very soft, so it is difficult to use machines to mass-produce items such as bass rings that have to be done by hand. The grain is mass-produced mechanically, not of agarwood. Producers often use chemicals with a deep odor to seep into wood grains to imitate agarwood. To distinguish, the simplest way is to directly smell the product, if at first there is an alcohol smell, or a strong aroma, it is a chemical impregnated product. Because a really deep smell is usually faint, mild, it takes a new temperature to release the fragrance. Another trick often offered by the seller to lure customers is to put the series of bass rings in the water. If the circle sinks, it proves it is deep However, the agarwood wood is not only soft but also light, so it will float on the water, of course there are still pieces of wood submerged in the water, which are pieces of wood with many deep essential oils crystallized from many years. The cost of this type of submerged bass is very high, each ring made from this type of bass is the lowest at 400 million VND / chain. According to the Life science

Talking about Ha Hoi refers to the unique architectural complex of the old town with closed but open spaces, connecting almost all activities in the daily life of residents, from living to business, cultural activities. chemistry, entertainment, entertainment … creates a strong vitality non-stop throughout the thousand years of history. Talking about Hanoi is also talking about precious French architectural heritage in harmony with the indigenous architecture, creating a unique feature of the capital. The most quintessential architectural features of Hanoi have been reappeared in a newly launched urban area at the end of January 2021, fully benefiting from the entire transportation infrastructure west of Hanoi. That is the urban area Anlac Green Symphony located at the connecting point west of Hanoi, adjacent to the new urban flows My Dinh and Hoai Duc. 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