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)

It is also strange, the origin of apricot tree is in the central mountainous forest, with its “primitive” shape, rough, sinuous, wild, but when down to the Southern Delta, it is immersed in the alluvial of the Me River. Kong, it becomes a splendid and noble flower plant, and as a spring flower, a symbol of wealth, wealth, and wealth … For the people of the South, three days of Tet, in each family, whether rich or poor, there is at least one apricot branch, as a hope, a wish for the new year to have many blessings and fortune. And the apricot blossom did not know when it became the most luxurious of all flowers. When the rains of the season have just ended, the weather is lucky at night to warm the apricot stalks, the sun is like a gentle claw to awaken the sprout of apricot buds .. And when the swarms of swallows make their nests to signal Spring. Tet comes. Tet in the South has two specialties that are unmatched: watermelon – yellow apricot. Without yellow apricot, it is no longer Tet. The flowers only bloom in 3 days of Tet, but the golden color is sunny throughout the year. In the early days of spring, apricot flowers from the orchards flock to the town center, to the market street, the apricot trees are full of round green buds, glistening with a few green young leaves, dotted with a few golden buds, creating air festival. The rich bring the apricot tree home. The poor, no matter how poor, try to find a small branch of apricot on the altar of their ancestors. Yellow Plum is not only a flower to decorate the Tet colors, but also a symbol of Phuc – Loc in the year. Mai is like a god that predicts the future in the new year. If the apricot blossom bloom in three days of Tet, its petals are steady, and the color is bright yellow, that year the owner will be happy and happy. If the flower buds wilt, fall, the petals are curled, the homeowner will have many difficulties. Mai is sad and happy for a new year… so for mai, not only is she feeling awkward, “inspiring flowers”, but also the tacit reverence like “flower spirit” of Xuan. Cheese blossoms are not as beautiful as other flowers, but discreetly show their hidden beauty, only eyes can see that beauty. From the tree shape following the symbolic positions: Long – Phung – Phong – Van – Son – Thuy …, branch shape Tam Tai: Thien – Dia – Nhan, Four directions: Thuong – Ha – Ta – Huu, to the buds on the tree: bud Round like beads are bunches of yellow flowers are hiding waiting for the right moment to bloom, chicken-hooves bud is the hiding place of young green leaves like pearls. When the flowers bloom, the bud leaves dotted them for a more attractive apricot yellow color. And the scent of flowers, not everyone knows the scent of yellow apricot. It is a kind of incense called “haunted incense”, only when night falls, the weather is a bit seizure, everything sleeps peacefully, then the human mind must also be calm and not moved to feel the pure fragrance full of mystery. lurking, the purer, the more the aroma radiates … This also creates the essence of apricot. The purchase of Tet apricots is usually done by the head of the family (a man), expressing his aesthetic conception to choose apricot. Depending on the interior space or the family situation, the homeowner chooses a tree or branch, big or small, with such poses as: straight shape, draining wind, waterfall, five blessings, dragon, father, mother or father. multi, three-talented, .vv … to put in pots, round, flat, oval, square, hexagonal. According to books and folklore, there are many types of apricot blossom, 14-15 basic types, but basically all kinds of apricot: Khanh khat mai, Ha hoa mai, sandalwood, Ban Mai mai, Crane sign mai … of course, according to normal practice, the player of apricot, buying apricot blossom only focuses on 2 types: quarter-quarter plum, four-season blooming with 5 wings, big flower, and a hybrid apricot with 10 or more wings up to 120 wings and redolent. “Play” tomorrow is also an elegant and sophisticated hobby that not everyone can know “play”. Plum is an aura flower, even its scent is very discreet and selective, it can only “capture” its scent deeply at night, cool and dewy air, human mind is also real. New stillness can receive the faint scent of apricot blossom. Right from the “Christmas season”, tomorrow has been cared for by the gardeners, under the hands of famous artisans in areas specializing in the decoration in the southwestern region such as Dong Thap, Ben Tre, Sa Dec, Kien Giang, Can Tho. … And some long-standing traditional apricot villages in the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City such as: Hiep Binh Chanh apricot village, Binh Trieu, Binh Chanh 1, Binh Chanh 2, Go Vap flower village, Hiep Binh Chanh flower village (Thu Duc) Mai to “play” is also very meticulous and stylish, not only choosing apricot varieties, but also having to choose “how” of apricot trees (including the stump and branches), so that if “playing” the whole tree or pruning a branch is beautiful. as the. According to the general conception of bonsai: best picture, second generation, tam chi, four messages. In order to get an apricot tree according to the “like” way, the apricot planter has to take many years of care and pruning for all floors and branches like the basic “position”: The yin and yang, the yin tree below must have 3 floor, 1 top; Poplar trees above must have 5 floors, 1 top … Usually the chosen apricot root has the basic characteristics: “old” root, big, rough skin, maybe even moss, with “like” forms: Father, brother, friend, mother death, woodcutter, Diep, volunteer, best when heaven, … Small but strong apricot branches, with shapes such as: kneeling feet, flying cranes, phoenix … In addition to the above features, apricot also focuses on the division of branches on a apricot root such as: Big branches, small branches, the arrangement of branches .. creating “internal air” of apricot branches: Branches dividing layers , evenly spread cotton, strong branches, flexible branches, plump buds, young leaves buds … The “playing” tomorrow of the artisan line also distinguishes many other things such as: stigma and yin and yang, four-quarter branches. The stigmata is directing husband and wife, branching from the fourth quarter of Spring, Summer and Fall … The apricot family is diverse and plentiful, but tomorrow is also seen as a symbol of nobility, purity, purity, gratitude and soulfulness. Moreover, apricot is said to bring luck to homeowners with apricot buds blossoming at the right time of New Year’s Eve. On the occasion of the Lunar New Year, in every house of the Southern people in general, the people of Saigon – Ho Chi Minh City in particular, the apricot tree or branch is placed in the most solemn position. And in the parks, even on the street, apricot is the most important element to decorate the Tet space. Without the golden apricot color, the Lunar New Year in the South will not be complete enough to be called Tet.