A day of salt farmers in An Hoa commune (Quynh Luu district, Nghe An) begins at dawn, when the first rays of the new day are still shy behind the roofs. Groups of people wearing conical hats, carrying light burdens on their shoulders, and carrying locusts in their hands rushed to the salt fields. From about 6 to 10 am, when the sun is not too strong, people mainly just work the soil and water the salt fields. The harvest usually takes place in the afternoon, from 12 noon onwards, when the sun rises at noon. “Chicken egg yolk” shines through the morning dew, signaling a new day. Silhouette of a woman diligently working in the morning sunlight reflected in the clear salt fields. Salt occupation is associated with long fields, full of sunshine and salty sweat. The square salt fields, reflecting the sparkling morning sun, create a beautiful scene. At different times of the day, the salt field is beautiful in different angles, full of lyricism and nostalgia. The dawn on the salt field has a rustic and idyllic beauty that is so attractive. Over 60 years of work, Ms. Phan Thi Chinh (77 years old) is very familiar with this place. Although her children have all looked for other jobs, she still sticks to the profession alone. For Mrs. Chinh, the salty taste of the sea or the hot sun of the sky has “soaked” ever since. “This job is so hard! The sun is hot, people are in the shade, and we have to go out to dry, almost no time to rest. It’s hard work, it’s hard work, but the income is not much, just enough to live through the day”, Ms. Chinh confided. In that hardship, she still smiled beautifully. For generations, the salt people of An Hoa have attached their lives to the grain of salt, despite many hardships and bitterness.

Illustration. It is important that you brush and clean your teeth after each meal. Usually, dentists recommend brushing twice a day to avoid oral health problems. Coconut oil Not only does coconut oil have many benefits for your hair, but it also helps you whiten your teeth. Take a teaspoon of coconut oil and using a toothbrush, brush your teeth with this amount of oil. Finally, brush your teeth with the cream again to see the best effect. How to whiten teeth with salt Salt provides essential minerals for teeth, has a bactericidal effect, removes yellow stains and whitens teeth effectively. In the morning, you should rinse your mouth with a glass of salt water or diluted salt after brushing your teeth. Or another way you mix toothpaste with a few grains of salt and brush your teeth as usual How to whiten teeth with hydrogen peroxide Hydrogen peroxide is often used to disinfect and clean wounds. However, besides that, many women often whisper to each other how to whiten their teeth with very effective hydrogen peroxide. Because when in contact with the teeth, it will create a redox reaction to cut the colored proteins in the teeth without damaging the enamel. After brushing your teeth, dilute the hydrogen peroxide with water and then use this mixture to gargle all over your mouth so that the hydrogen peroxide acts on the roots of your teeth to remove dirt and bacteria within 1 minute, then rinse your mouth with water. warm. This helps protect teeth from the inside.

Using fresh lemon to treat bad breath is a popular way for many people to use. Method 1: The pieces of lemon peel after use, instead of discarding, you should wash, then chew thoroughly, and swallow. Do this a few times a day to keep your breath fresh. A fairly simple and easy way to cure bad breath. So why don’t you try it now? Method 2: Lemon, a fruit that is always present in the house, has many uses for everything, including treating bad breath. Brushing your teeth and even brushing your tongue with a mixture of lemon juice and salt twice a day will significantly improve the above discomfort. Cure bad breath effectively at home simply from salt Salt is a mineral that is good for teeth and gum health. Salt also has very good antiseptic properties. So when using salt as the fastest home remedy for bad breath, you can both clean your mouth and disinfect the wounds in your mouth, especially in the gums. How to use: Just mix salt with water (note that the salt concentration is only about 0.8 – 1%) to keep in the mouth daily to effectively deodorize your teeth. Eat ginger and yogurt to help reduce bad breath Yogurt: Eating yogurt daily has been shown to reduce the level of odor caused by hydrogen sulfide in the mouth. In addition, yogurt is also highly effective in reducing plaque and harmful bacteria because it contains vitamin D – which helps create an unfavorable environment for bacteria to grow. Ginger: Ginger has long been used as a natural remedy for stomach upsets. Ginger is also capable of dispelling bad breath. You can use it the way you cut ginger to make tea, accompanied by a little lemon. How to treat bad breath quickly with Chinese coriander leaves Chinese coriander leaves can cure bad breath caused by stomach and digestive causes. The smell of China, also known as coriander leaves, has a strong, pungent taste. According to traditional medicine, these properties have the effect of averting evil spirits, reducing heat, purifying uncleanness, relieving distention, strengthening spleen and stomach, and stimulating digestion. Therefore, if you use this leaf again, you can cure bad breath due to stomach and digestive causes. How to use: Take sharp coriander leaves with very thick water, add a few grains of salt to gargle and dry your throat several times a day.

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.

Illustration (Source: Internet). There was a commotion of flutes around the herd of buffalo lying in the green grass valley. The sound of puffy breathing of an old buffalo with a broken nose lying on its snout on the edge of the earth speckled with footprints. The sound of chewing slowly and deliberately tasted the new grass-flavored water. The sound of the wind through the bamboo arch pulls each dry, brittle leaf. In the distance, as far as the eye could see, the red brick kilns wailed with thin smoke. Early in the summer, the Lo River is still the same as it was a few decades ago. City people feel like they are a few decades younger, a few dozen years old are anxious and indifferent to the earth, sky, and plants. Rows of rice plants on the riverbank are in full bloom. The crooked branches are like strong carvings against the light cloudy sky. The flock of flutes on the buffalo’s back heard the sound from afar, and they fluttered their wings and took off into the red flower arches. The white spots on the black bird’s wings fluttered like paper torn to the sky. Shivering. It sounds like a singing flower. Words earnestly call back childhood. Hanoians for many years have almost forgotten about the giant rice flower trees located on the grounds of Uncle Co’s house by the river. Strolling on the blue dyke, the May grass in March looks at the brilliant rice flowers rising up from the most luxurious shimmering octagonal building in the period. Warm brown tiled walls and roof edges of seals. La Cha dropped each red rice arduously. The flocks of black starlings, starlings and starlings from the north bank of the Red River pull together to make noise all day long. In March, the clusters of rice flowers are still persistently glowing red around the building. The sound of the starling is absent. It’s as if there’s a whole new raging river out there. Vehicles roared with smoke on the one-way dike road going like a flood. The river of people flows. Not a glance. Can’t stop. Hanoians just indifferently passed by the fluttering memories of the past, now faded in the shadow of the strange and colorful buildings along the river. There is no longer a grassy path on the dike surface to relax on foot. The grassy embankment like a green thread stretching across the city has disappeared, making way for the doodles of a mosaic of ceramic pieces. Not serious and heroic, urging like a poster of any day. It’s not enough to laugh like the Graffiti pictures of children stealing paint in the middle of the night with paint cans. Hanoians follow the call from their childhood in their hearts. Upstream of Lo River, Red River. In March, we see alluvial beaches and green corn banks. Sunny skies. Wild rice stalks let down their flowers to boil and light the riverbank’s fire. And the chirping of starlings called the flock from the other side. There are also rice flowers. Hanoians still have to wait a few hundred more years, the rice tree in front of Ngoc Son Temple on Hoan Kiem Lake will be big enough as in memory. Absence of the bright red flowers in March on the side of Tower Pen, Dai Nghien is an irreparable loss. There will also never be any hope of seeing a majestic big tree at the corner of Van Mieu garden where Nguyen Thai Hoc street intersects with Ton Duc Thang. Under that giant rice is the Hai Co shrine all year round. Called a temple, but there is no architectural work at all. It is the rice plant. And it also seems that there is no specific “Miss” name to be worshiped. God of banyan tree, ghost of rice tree, nowhere to be. The corner of the street was paved with flat bricks after the rice tree died. People have left Hai Co Temple under the rice to go somewhere else. Only a faint bewildered pink color of childhood is left…

Recently, Thai jackfruit is considered a staple crop in some southern provinces. In particular, in the past 4 years, commercial jackfruit has been purchased by traders from their gardens to export to China at high prices. The high price of jackfruit means that every day, traders come to the garden to buy and collect jackfruit, and people who do “smells for hire” also appear from there. Unlike jackfruit storks, who lead into the garden to buy jackfruit, those who smell jackfruit are the people who accompany traders to the garden to determine the age of the jackfruit and take on the job of picking jackfruit for the garden owner. Thanks to these people, traders can find and buy old, delicious and quality jackfruit gardens, reducing the risk of buying young jackfruit or jackfruit with lots of black fiber. People who smell “famous” jackfruit can earn millions of dong a day. But according to Mr. Le Van Ngoc (resident in Tan Phu town, Dong Phu district, Binh Phuoc province), this profession is not for everyone, if the fruit is still young and has bad taste, no one dares to hire it anymore. . The strange profession of mixing salt into water and cooking it on a giant pan People often dry sea water to get salt. But in Ben Tre, there is a strange job that is to mix salt in water and put it on a giant pan to boil it. The fire stove cooks massive salt the size of a huge and fiery pan (Photo: Dan Tri). Ms. Nguyen Thi Ninh (owner of a salt factory in Dai Hoa Loc commune, Binh Dai, Ben Tre) told Dan Tri newspaper that from a young age she had seen her grandparents cook salt, then her mother also cooked salt, in the hamlet there were also many people. salt cook. She was taught to cook salt since she was a girl and has kept the job until now. “This job is very hard, always working with hands and feet, only taking a break when the stove is off, the only advantage is that I take the initiative, rain or shine, I have a job,” said Nhinh. Rare earth lotus species in 600-year-old pagoda in Hanoi VOV information, Boi Khe pagoda (Tam Hung commune, Thanh Oai district, Hanoi) has undergone 600 years of history and is recognized as a special national relic. Notably, in the temple grounds, there are three lotus plants with unique and rare pure white flowers. These precious lotus trees have existed for hundreds of years in the temple grounds. According to Ms. Pham Thi Quyet, a resident of Boi Khe village, lotus is grown in some places in the North of our country but rarely blooms. In Boi Khe pagoda, land lotus blooms regularly, each tree only blooms about ten flowers. For that reason, this place has attracted many visitors to visit the temple and admire this rare flower. Strange jackfruit tree in Ben Tre produces 200-300 fruits At the Ben Tre province’s delicious fruit contest in 2018, many visitors were delighted and surprised to admire a bunch of strange jackfruit 23 consecutive fruits, each weighing from 2-2.2 kg with a very special aroma. separate. The owner of the above jackfruit tree is Mr. Nguyen Van Xoi (living in Phu Phung commune, Cho Lach district). Mr. Xoi said in the Popular Science Newspaper: “This is a native jackfruit named To Tan, this jackfruit tree was given as a gift by a friend 25 years ago. Jackfruit has fruit all year round, delicious taste very strange, large, fleshy, flat seeds, very beautiful turmeric yellow color. Since planting until now, I have not applied any organic or inorganic fertilizers at all. Each year the tree gives 200 to 300 fruits”. Golden apricot tree over 100 years old with unique shape sets a record in Vietnam The yellow apricot tree over 100 years old has a very unique shape in the city. Sa Dec (Dong Thap) has just been set a record by the Vietnam Record Organization for “Single Edition in Vietnam”. The hundred-year-old golden maid (Photo: Dong Thap newspaper) According to Dong Thap newspaper, this old maid is owned by Mr. Vu Duc Dong (living in An Hoa ward, Sa Dec city). The unique feature that creates a different value in this apricot tree is that it has a single branch reaching up to 5m, a rare form in Vietnam. The apricot tree is shaped like a maiden, looking very soft with its branches reaching out as if welcoming spring, so the owner named it “Nhung Xuan Khanh Hoi”. 50-year-old pan bread shop attracts diners in Saigon Hoa Ma Bread is one of the oldest bakeries in Saigon. This brand of bread dates back to the 60s of the last century. Thanks to the unique processing method and special flavor, Hoa Ma bread makes many diners fascinated. Not only attracting the people of Saigon to eat, there are many foreign tourists who also come to enjoy this long-standing pan bread. The price of a piece of pan bread is 52,000 VND. Strangely, hot pot ‘sighs’ in the West, guests ‘sweat’ enjoy it Dan Tri newspaper said that islet hot pot (also known as breathing hot pot or coal hot pot) is a “famous” delicacy of the western provinces. The reason for this name is because people have to use a specially designed aluminum pot, specialized for cooking hot pot, is an islet pot. Attractive islet hot pot dish (Photo: @heofood). Depending on each locality and the conditions of each family, the ingredients for making hot pot are different. But regardless of the region, in the islet hot pot, there are always typical ingredients such as pork liver (or pork heart), chicken gizzard (or duck), grilled pork chop shaped like a cana, flower cake, etc. Not only is it different from other hotpot dishes in the recipe, but the islet hot pot also has some special processing secrets to create a “famous” flavor. Strange chickens like massage, drink wine, cost millions each Birdwatchers in the West have recently raised a movement to raise “athlete chickens”. This breed is quite small when an adult male weighs only about 400g, but they have a very beautiful feather color. In particular, the “athlete chicken” has an imposing posture, likes massage, and drinks garlic wine, costing tens of millions of dong/head. This breed of chicken is called Serama chicken, originating from Malaysia. About Vietnam, because of their unique standing, they are often called “athlete chickens”. Purebred Serama chickens only have yellow color, coming back to Vietnam, they are crossed with bamboo chickens, so they have many other colors. Hanh Nguyen (Synthetic)

So what to do when water eats your feet? Here are 5 folk tips to help treat this disease extremely quickly and effectively. 1. Alum One of the most effective ways to treat foot water is to use alum. You take the alum to boil until the alum forms a white powder, then grind it finely and then apply it to the skin that is eaten by the water. Note, during the treatment period, it is necessary to abstain from water so the wound will heal faster. In addition, you can also dissolve alum with warm water and then soak your feet for 5-10 minutes. After soaking, remember to use a dry cloth to wipe it clean. 2. Dilute salt water According to experts, soaking your feet in dilute salt water will help soothe the wound, kill bacteria and quickly heal the skin. The way to do it is as follows, mix salt with warm water then soak for about 10 minutes, then stop. Dry your feet and apply a special ointment. Warm salt water will help kill bacteria and heal the wound faster. Illustration. 3. Betel leaf leaves Folks have a very good foot treatment trick, girls take 9 leaves, boys take 7 betel leaves, wash them and boil them with 0.5 liters of water. When the betel leaf juice does not cool, mix alum and then use this mixture to dab on the places where the water eats your feet. Consistently do it for 2-3 days and you will see immediate results. 4. Green tea leaves Tea leaves contain a lot of vitamin C and antioxidants, so they have a soothing and antiseptic effect. When water eats your feet, boil green tea leaves and wash the wound with water. Crush dry tea and apply it to this skin area, after only 2 days, the skin that is eaten by water will quickly dry and no longer itch and burn. 5. Spinach Purslane is available in almost every home’s garden. When the water eats your feet, take a few tops of purslane, wash and crush it, add a few grains of salt, then wrap the mixture in a clean towel. Lightly dab on the affected skin, do it several times a day for best results.