The 5-hectare burdock field in Mac Binh village, Thai Tan commune is invested by Mr. Nguyen Manh Ha, Director of Senfarm Agricultural Cooperative, in association with households in the village, setting up a tree farm. on alluvial land along the Thai Binh river. According to Mr. Ha, burdock is a relatively easy plant, taking care of burdock is only difficult in the first one to 1.5 months because it has to be watered regularly, then the plant grows on its own, almost without care. fertilizer, only waiting to harvest when the plant has matured. Harvesting burdock is also different. Because burdock roots are deep in the ground, with tubers up to 1.2 m long, an excavator must be used. After six months of planting, burdock is only harvested, but the economic efficiency is two to three times higher than that of carrot, which is a traditional local crop. Fresh burdock root is supplied to high-class agricultural stores in Hanoi and food manufacturers at prices ranging from 90,000 to 120,000 VND/kg. Burdock can be grown all year round, which is quite convenient in crop rotation. It should be noted that the soil suitable for burdock is loose soil, preferably alluvial soil in the riverside area. Here, the root system develops well, provides enough nutrients, the tree will grow well, has high resistance to pests and diseases. In addition, the tree does not tolerate waterlogging, so the soil must be able to drain well. Burdock seeds need to be purchased from a reputable establishment that has the ability to grow quickly and has good resistance to pests and diseases. From the successful trial planting, Mr. Nguyen Manh Ha has guided people in the commune to plant and buy burdock root to help them, forming a chain of production and consumption links. Accordingly, some households have switched from growing carrots to burdock. In addition to planting and producing burdock, Senfram Agricultural Cooperative also cooperates with processing factories to market products such as fresh burdock, sliced ​​dried burdock, burdock cake, and other products. fermented burdock products, burdock tea bags…

The ruins of the ancient city of Tikal, where the Teotihuacan population was discovered. Autonomous zone in the city To the naked eye – and on archaeologists’ maps – the structure looks like a hill amid the undulating landscape of Tikal, the ancient Maya city-state in the lowlands of northern Guatemala. But when the researchers zoomed in on the image with a laser scanning device called LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging), they saw a man-made pyramid structure. , hidden under the soil and vegetation accumulated for thousands of years. This structure is actually part of an old residential area, different from most structures that have existed in Tikal. It has a distinctive shape, orientation and architectural features commonly found in Teotihuacan, a powerful city-state belonging to another civilization, near present-day Mexico City, 1200km west of Tikal. Upon closer inspection, archaeologists found that the complex appeared to be a copy of the giant Citadel square in Teotihuacan but was only half the size. The new discovery of a massive monument at the heart of Tikal – one of the most widely excavated and studied archaeological sites on Earth, shows that LiDAR is revolutionizing archeology in Central America, where these sites The jungle often renders satellite imagery useless. From here, however, a difficult question also arises: What role does an area of ​​the remote Teotihuacan city-state play in the heart of this Maya capital? After studying images from LiDAR, Edwin Román-Ramírez, Director of the South Tikal Archaeological Project conducted excavations in the summer of 2020. Digging tunnels into the site, his team made the discovery. Building tools, funeral offerings, pottery, and weapons are typical of early fourth-century Teotihuacan. From censers decorated with the rain god Teotihuacan, to darts made of green obsidian in central Mexico, the site is likely a quasi-autonomous neighborhood in central Tikal. Román-Ramírez said: “We know that the Teotihuacans had some presence and influence in Tikal and nearby Maya areas before 378. But it is not clear how well the Mayans were associated with the most powerful kingdom in the region. . Now there is evidence that their relationship is even closer than that.” Relationship between two civilizations The ruins of the Citadel Square of the Teotihuacan civilization. Thomas Garrison – a geographer at the University of Texas – Austin (USA), specializing in the use of digital technology for archaeological research, said that the above findings proved to a certain extent that the America’s old town isn’t too different from today’s cosmopolitan cities. “There is a mixture of cultures and people of different backgrounds and languages ​​coexist, maintaining their identity in one city,” he said. A study funded by the Pacunam LiDAR Initiative, which published groundbreaking findings in 2018, reveals a vast network of ancient cities in the Maya lowlands, home to millions of people. people, more than previously thought. Scientists Edwin Román – Ramírez noted that the above findings do not confirm that the builders of the complex came from Teotihuacan. “But what we found shows that, for more than a century people who are more or less familiar with Teotihuacan culture and traditions have lived there, in their own region,” he said. Based on ceramic designs found in the ruins, the team estimates that construction at the site began at least 100 years before 378, an important date in Mayan history. According to the Maya inscriptions, the king of Teotihuacan sent a general called the Born of Fire to overthrow the king of Tikal, Jaguar Paw, and put his young son in charge of the country. Born of Fire arrived in Tikal on January 16, 378, the same day that Jaguar Paw “entered the water” – a Mayan metaphor for death. After being annexed, Tikal flourished for several centuries, conquering and pacifying neighboring cities, and spreading their culture throughout the plains. Tikal’s hegemony during this period is well documented, but it is not clear why, after decades of friendly coexistence, Teotihuacan turned his back on his former ally. Further excavations at Tikal may provide new insights, but a recent discovery in Teotihuacan suggests that cultural conflict may have sparked the breakup between these two powerful city-states. A team of scientists led by Nawa Sugiyama, an archaeologist at the University of California, Riverside (USA), has discovered a “Maya house” at Teotihuacan. The opulent buildings here are decorated with splendid Mayan murals, suggesting that the inhabitants were either elite diplomats or aristocratic families. But just before Tikal was annexed in 378, the murals were smashed to pieces and buried. A nearby pit was filled with shattered human skeletons, indicating the sudden shift from diplomacy to violent confrontation between the two city-states. “What went wrong in that relationship, when a bunch of elite Maya residents were massacred, their buildings were demolished, all their belongings were thrown away, and then their homeland was conquered. ruled by a child king?” asked Francisco Estrada-Belli, an archaeologist at Tulane University. It is also one of the great mysteries of Central America that scientists are trying to answer.

Dark matter is thought to be six times more abundant than normal matter. What is dark matter? First and perhaps most confusingly, researchers are still unsure what exactly dark matter is. Initially, some scientists surmised, the missing mass in the universe was made up of faint small stars and black holes. However, detailed observations have not shown enough evidence to explain the effects of dark matter. The current leading hypothesis is a hypothetical particle known as the weakly interacting mass particle, or WIMP. This particle would behave like a neutron and be 10-100 times heavier than a proton. However, this conjecture has opened a series of other unanswered questions. Is it possible to detect dark matter? In the 1930s, Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky discovered that galaxies in a distant cluster were orbiting each other much faster than they should have been visible. At the time, he suggested, an invisible substance, dark matter, could be pulling gravity on these galaxies. Since then, researchers have confirmed, this mysterious matter can be found throughout the universe. They are six times more abundant than ordinary matter. If dark matter were produced from WIMPs, they would be all around us, invisible and virtually undetectable. While they won’t interact much with normal matter, there’s always some small chance that a dark matter particle could bump into an ordinary particle like a proton or electron as it travels through space. So the researchers carried out a series of experiments to study the huge numbers of ordinary particles deep underground, where they are shielded from interfering radiation. These particles can behave like a collision between dark matter particles. After decades of searching, none of these detectors have made a reliable discovery. Earlier this year, China’s PandaX experiment reported failing to detect WIMP. According to physicist Hai-Bo Yu at the University of California, Riverside, it seems that dark matter particles are much smaller than WIMP, or lack properties that make them easy to study. Does it include more than one particle? Ordinary matter is made up of particles like protons and electrons, as well as more exotic particles like neutrinos, muons, and pions. So some researchers have wondered, could dark matter, which makes up 85 percent of the matter in the universe, be just as complex? “There is no good reason to assume that all dark matter in the universe is made up of one type of particle,” said Harvard physicist Andrey Katz. According to Katz, dark protons can combine with dark electrons to form dark matter. From there, create configurations as varied and interesting as those found in the physical world. However, this problem has not been elucidated so far by scientists. Does the dark force exist? Some researchers have been looking for “dark photons,” analogous to photons exchanged between ordinary particles that generate the electromagnetic force. However, dark photons will only be sensed by dark matter particles. Physicists in Italy are preparing to break a beam of electrons and their antiparticles, called positrons, into a diamond. If dark photons exist, electron-positron pairs could annihilate and create one of the strange force carriers. From there, it is possible to open up a whole new realm of the universe. Is it made up of axions? As physicists pay more and more attention to understanding WIMPs, other dark matter particles are starting to gain favor. One of the top substitutes is the axion. This hypothetical particle is very light, smaller than a proton. Axion is currently being searched for in a few trials. Recent computer simulations have raised the possibility that these axions can form star-like objects. At the same time, they can produce radiation that is easily detected, similar to the mysterious phenomenon known as fast radio bursts. What are the properties of dark matter? Astronomers have discovered dark matter through its gravitational interaction with ordinary matter. This is also an indication that it is the main way that the presence of dark matter is known in the universe. According to some theories, dark matter particles must be their own antiparticles. This means that the two dark matter particles will annihilate each other when they meet. The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) experiment aboard the International Space Station has been looking for amazing signs of this destruction since 2011. As a result, AMS detected hundreds of thousands of events. Scientists are still unsure if these come from dark matter, and have yet to determine exactly what dark matter is. Does it exist in every galaxy? Because of its greater mass than normal matter, dark matter is often thought to be the driving force that organizes large structures such as galaxies and galaxy clusters. So it was strange that earlier this year, astronomers announced that they had found a galaxy called NGC 1052-DF2. Surprisingly, this galaxy barely contains any dark matter. At the time, Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University said: “Dark matter does not seem to be a necessary element to form a galaxy.” However, another team of researchers analyzed and showed that van Dokkum and colleagues miscalculated the distance to the galaxy. This means that visible matter is much fainter and lighter than first detected.

House of Rock in the Netherlands was completed in 2016, with a total area of ​​600m2. The house is built on the grass dunes, river sand is very rare in the housing architecture because the terrain is not flat. However, this will be one of the model architectures when people run out of land resources to build houses. Different from the rough appearance, the interior of the house is very modern, simple but bright. The house meets the needs of guests is spacious, light-filled space with modern and comfortable furniture. This is a design in a project called Westlandse Zoom – a house building on a grassy dune in the south of the Netherlands. Although the interior and architecture do not use stone as the main material, the house is still called House of Rock because if viewed from above, it will very much like a stone. The architects minimized the walls separating the rooms for more space. The dining room is connected to the kitchen and living room. Details in the interior are made very meticulously. With the main design of gray and white tones, the house is decorated with many colorful pictures to make accents. The rustic architecture makes the house friendly and closer to the user. There are plenty of ceiling doors for light to enter the house. The porch of the house is quite simple. To ensure privacy, there are also many wooden stakes around the house. The house does not use the normal triangle roof, but has walls up to 6m high with glass doors to block wind and dust.

Recently, billionaire Bill Gates and his wife – Melinda Gates announced on Twitter that they will divorce after 27 years of marriage. According to Forbes, Bill Gates is currently the 4th richest person in the world with a net worth of $ 130.5 billion. Bill Gates and his wife have many real estate properties, including a 6,100 square meter mansion in Washington. Bill Gates’ mansion was built in 7 years and cost 63 million USD. Before that, Bill Gates bought this land for $ 2 million in 1988. Located on a hillside surrounded by tall trees, the villa is covered with greenery with lots of plants. The work was first completed in 1992 with a 170-square-meter guest house area. This guest house has one bedroom, one bathroom. These are the first places where the technology is tested for future use in the main building. Nearly 500,000 trees were used to build this house, including 500-year-old fir trees. There is also an artificial stream next to the villa for fish release. The villa area has 24 bathrooms, 10 of which are fully equipped with amenities. Bill Gate’s garage can accommodate 23 vehicles, distributed in various areas around the building. In addition, the Bill Gates mansion also has a total of 6 kitchens, located in different places and the staff can be ready for any event, any time. The entire villa is installed with high-tech sensors to monitor the climate and light. Upon arrival at the house, guests are given a panel that interacts with sensors installed throughout the house. They can go to temperature and light to adjust according to their preferences. The wall-mounted speaker system plays music with every step through the rooms. Even the path to the house is also heated. The cinema room is nearly 140 m2, extremely spacious and comfortable for 20 guests. There is also a popcorn machine with a choice of corn and butter. The 18-meter-deep swimming pool is located in a private building of more than 360 square meters. The swimming pool is also equipped with an underwater music sound system. Photo source: BI. Video: Ho Chi Minh City preserves ancient villas. Source: VTV24

Recently, Vu Khac Tiep made the audience admire when revealing a drawing of a new villa that is both luxurious and superficial in Ho Chi Minh City. Through the visible image, Vu Khac Tiep’s new villa has a luxurious and magnificent design like a castle. The villa is located in a prime location with direct views of the Saigon River. The space outside the villa is designed to be overwhelmingly luxurious. Notably, despite having a 40 billion villa, Ngoc Trinh still could not hold back in front of Vu Khac Tiep’s new house. Previously, in May 2018, boss Vu Khac Tiep confirmed that he and Ngoc Trinh are “neighbors” when they each own a billion-dollar villa located next to each other in the “rich house” district 9, HCMC. The villa is about 650 square meters wide with modern Western European style and luxury. Outside the villa is a garden garden with flowers, trees and swimming pool It is known that the price of raw houses is about 25 billion per house. Plus the cost of decoration and interior shopping, the price is about 40 billion In addition, Vu Khac Tiep also owns a 10 billion luxury apartment in District 2, Ho Chi Minh City. The apartment is quite large. The interior of the apartment is mostly imported, very luxurious. At the balcony, Vu Khac Tiep also planted many trees and flowers. Photo source: FBNV. Video: Ho Chi Minh City preserves ancient villas. Source: VTV24

When expounding the relationship between the two locations and the name of the exhibition, Li Xiangning, the curator of the exhibition and dean of the School of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University, said: “‘The dead like this” describes the relationship between space and time. Bringing the sense of’ruins’ that spans time from the’side garden’ to the art gallery, interacting with the existing riverside images and the artist’s works, forming a connection between the existence and the other.”

Exhibition site APSMUSEUM “The Dead”

Standing on the second-floor terrace of the “Border Garden” on the Yangpu Riverside, you see the river slowly flowing in front of you. A musician is playing the oboe, and the urban landscape is pushed into the distance. The city in the frame and the power plant in the distance are in the building. Among the ruins and new landscapes, “The son said on the Sichuan:’The dead are like a husband, and will not give up day and night’.” It seems to have become a footnote to the scenery.

Standing on the “side garden”, you can see the Huangpu River and the old power plant.

In the hinterland of Lujiazui, Pudong, inside the APSMUSEUM in the center of Lujiazui, walk into a long corridor, where the scenes on the “side garden” are transmitted on a long wall and a long screen. Here, Liu Yichun reconstructs the real space on the riverside in an abstract way, while Qiu Anxiong’s creations give the city’s daily scene a surrealism through a series of gradually suspended and weightless people and objects. light”.

In APSMUSEUM, the real-time transmission image of Yangpu Riverside is superimposed on the image of people walking in the museum and Qiu Anxiong.

The images here are transmitted in real time to the display screen of the “Border Garden”, superimposed on the ruined scenery and the hustle and bustle, connected by an immersive installation, like two containers, carrying the history of Shanghai’s industry and the prosperous present, and the works of art are also in between. It reminds the state of people and things in the process of urbanization.

The audience clicks the screen, and the animation on the screen floats to the sky.

“Border Garden” and APSMUSEUM, the superposition of reality and virtuality

The “Border Garden” is not a garden, but a ruined wall that was originally used by a coal dock to resist coal from falling. In 2019, architect Liu Yichun borrowed from the construction rules of Chinese gardens and transformed it into what it is today. The “side garden”.

After the transformation, the wall of the coal terminal that resisted the fall of coal became a “side garden”.

In fact, there were two walls here. After the other wall was crushed, the fragments of the building were thrown between the pier and the flood wall. Over time, the soil entered the cracks, and weeds and trees grew. The wall underneath, together with the fragments of another wall that shattered, formed a landscape-like whole. Although it has been transformed into a “landscape”, it still has a sense of barrenness. It is precisely this kind of landscape that conveys the sense of time of the industrial history along the Huangpu River, and also conveys the geography of Yangpu Riverside that was relatively located on the fringe of Shanghai in the past. feature.

“Bianyuan” facing the Huangpu River

In an exclusive interview with The Paper, Liu Yichun recalled coming to the site north of the Yangpu Bridge for the first time. “(They) existed like some kind of ruins, because they were left unused for a long time, the beams and columns had been damaged, and some soil fell on it. With weeds and even trees, it seems that these ruins are returning to nature in some way.” Liu Yichun said, “We are going to rebuild on the ruins today, and to some extent, we are terminating the process of returning to nature. , What does this termination mean to the ruins?”

Before the renovation, it almost returned to the natural site.

Liu Yichun used the words “ruins” and “trace” many times when he talked about “Bian Yuan”. “The same thing can be understood as either a’ruin’ or a kind of’trace’. When the ruins are transformed When it is a part of the new building, it becomes a trace on the original site and solidifies it in a new way. So I think these are two different understandings of time. The’ruin’ seems It is a kind of disappearance, and the’trace’ seems to be a kind of preservation.” “I want this place to be remodeled, but the barren scene of the original site and urban life can be retained to a great extent.”

The “Border Garden” of Yangpu Riverside. ©Tian Fangfang

The original site of the reconstructed “Border Garden” and the existing weeds and trees constitute the landscape. ©Tian Fangfang

APSMUSEUM is a “non-profit” art space founded by Art Pioneer Studio and its founder Wang Bin. It is also an experimental space. Although it is located in a shopping mall, it does not hesitate to pursue its artistic pursuits and invites Italy Architect Stefano Boeri is doing space design (as academic consultant for this exhibition), and the opening exhibition will be held in November 2020. “Space Leader” also invited many international big-name artists to participate. Prior to this, Xinzhifeng Art Institute undertook the curatorial, full supervision, and overall control of the permanent public art works of Yangpu Riverside. For issues such as public art, the connection between art and the space environment, we have been doing interdisciplinary integration and exploration.

APSMUSEUM “The Dead” Exhibition

APSMUSEUM is also a product of the development of the times. The Lujiazui area where it is located is a product of the development and opening up of Pudong. The urban issues it focuses on are also the result of changes in people’s lifestyles in the process of urbanization.

In this exhibition, APSMUSEUM is created as a surreal space. From the perspective of architectural intervention, Liu Yichun links the two places. The long walkway and screen in APSMUSEUM form a physical echo with the long wall of the “side garden”. . The people and objects in Qiu Anxiong’s silhouette animation slowly leave the ground and float to the sky. People walk in it, as if they are also a kind of garden.

In the APSMUSEUM in the center of Lujiazui, walk into a long corridor, where the scenes on the “side garden” are transmitted on a long wall and a long screen.

This space corresponds to the real space of the “Border Garden”. The superimposition of reality and virtuality forms an unfamiliar experience of the familiar daily urban space. “The border garden in the material world of the riverside and the imaginary border garden constructed from the images in the art gallery are connected across time and space. The border garden of the art gallery reflexively implants the real existence on the riverside through data transmission. This border garden It is the image twin of Bibian Garden, and it is the interpretation and reconstruction of the meaning of Bibian Garden.” Li Xiangning said.

The “Border Garden” renovated by Liu Yichun

Liu Yichun, Qiu Anxiong, and Jin Wang have cross-border cooperation with “literati consciousness”

The first time I saw Qiu Anxiong’s work was at the 2006 Shanghai Biennale. At that time, he made an animation “New Mountain and Sea Classics I” in the ink language of propylene and water transfer, which talked about the energy problems in urban development without too much. His language resonated with many people at that time.

Since then, he has successively completed “New Book of Mountains and Seas II” and “New Book of Mountains and Seas III” in 2009 and 2017, which are related to the creation time, and his focus ranges from “energy conflict” to “space and biotechnology”. Until the discussion of reality and virtuality in the Internet age. It seems that everyone is in the “New Mountain and Sea Classic” of the city, and every “weird and chaotic” that appears in it is also a common object around us. In the “urban landscape” with the image of the ancient Chinese, it is oneself that is seen.

“New Classics of Mountains and Seas III”, 2013-2017, ink and wash animation

“New Classics of Mountains and Seas III”, 2013-2017, ink and wash animation

Qiu Anxiong was born in 1972. From the 1970s to today, the changes in Chinese people’s lives are the greatest and most peculiar in history-from a farming society that relies on land for food, into an agriculture, industry, post-industrial consumption, information Social fusion. The plots of some science fiction novels that have appeared have become realities within reach of the moment. Many things can be solved on a smart phone, as long as there is a network cable to the outside world. Being able to participate in major social events while lying on the sofa makes everything easier and easier, and life becomes “lighter” unknowingly.

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Qiu Anxiong’s customized video works for this exhibition make people feel a kind of “light”. The silhouette of the little girl walked into the screen, blowing away the soap bubbles in her hand, the puppy floated away from gravity, and when touched again, the person would be gently lifted… but it was as light as a piece of paper, without itself His face has been separated from the real life.

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“The Internet has constructed a weightless world. It is not only the weightlessness of life, but also the weightlessness of our feelings about time. Fragmented information shatters the continuity of time. Only what is happening now can attract the attention of the Internet public. Yesterday’s events were forgotten. The shorter and more stimulating information in the online society, the more effective. Long and rational knowledge is rarely sought after. In the sense of time that was forgotten yesterday, we have lost the depth of time, let alone history. I feel that the weight of time gradually disappears in this weightless era.” Qiu Anxiong said.

Recalling the times we experienced, mobile phone screens have changed the way of life of many people. The social media platform is like a gluttonous behemoth that can swallow anything as long as it can bring traffic. Everyone’s lives are involved in this endless national carnival performance.

APSMUSEUM “The Dead”

The image of Qiu Anxiong, together with the excitement of the opening of the APSMUSEUM exhibition, was projected into Liu Yichun’s “Border Garden” building, superimposed with the passing ships on the Huangpu River and the lonely music. The sense of ruins and weight of the building itself makes the “lightness” of contemporary life even more “empty”.

In virtual and reality, one of the two musicians plays the oboe in the “Bian Yuan” and the other plays the viola in APSMUSEUM, separated by a river, the two are surrounded by music dialogue. The music they played was from Jin Wang. This name may be relatively unfamiliar in the field of visual art, but in the field of music, his chamber music works have been performed in concerts such as the Shanghai Spring International Music Festival and the Hong Kong Arts Festival many times, and he has cooperated with Yang Fudong and Qiu Anxiong many times. . “Most of the music has specific performance occasions, but this time it is two different spaces. Playing music at the same time also gives a lot of room for imagination. It also expresses’the dead are like their husbands, not giving up day and night’ The concept of time and space.” Jin Wang said.

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Although art, music and architecture tell their own stories, art is the ultimate carrier. On the opening day, there was also a forum where the curator and three artists talked about the inspiration of the exhibition from different angles. Li Xiangning talked about the role of art in urban renewal based on the connection of the Huangpu River and the Urban Space Art Season. Liu Yichun talked about his architectural practice with the theme of “The Boundary of the Art Museum”, and using the “Border Garden”, he explained how the art of the art museum is integrated into the public behind. And Wang Bin’s original intention of doing public art and APSMUSEUM was to let the artists in the “white box” be understood by more people. Many of his practices have also worked with field and cross-field cooperation. This time he joined the interaction between technology and art. .

Opening Forum

It is reported that in June this year, the “Bianyuan” branch will move to the Anaya Lonely Library in Qinhuangdao. It will face the sea and tell the story of “One City, One Story”. There will be more touring exhibitions in the future, and different spaces will bring difficulties. The same experience.

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Hanoi is a city surrounded by the Red River with great flow and fertile alluvial deposits. With long-standing living characteristics, two riversides are always crowded places. Many big bridges in Hanoi connect the two banks of the Red River such as Nhat Tan, Chuong Duong, Vinh Tuy, Thanh Tri, … Stretching from the residential areas of Hoan Kiem, Ba Dinh, Tay Ho districts to the middle of the river is a blank stretch of land with a green color of trees and crops. Although it has a large area, this place where people are used to calling it “middle ground” is just a place where people cultivate, increase production and make beaches. Mr. Pham Van Thi today visited the garden and harvested water spinach. He has 2 sao of land along the river. Every season, he kept a different kind of vegetable, and he planted it for his family to eat and sell at the same time. Rubbing his hands onto the wet, wet field ground, Mr. Thi shared: “The land along the river should be fertile. Vegetables and grass are up, no need to fertilize much nitrogen. Just sowing, watering, clearing the grass is a vegetable garden for harvest ”. However, the fertile land is so, but the plants here are mainly: bananas, corn, potatoes and Northern vegetables. These are cultivars with little capital and short harvest time. The reason for planting these trees is because this is the land area of ​​the city, people only plant trees in the “temporary” mind, when planning will be returned. The entrance to the beach in the middle of the Red River is covered in a green color with rows of bananas, vegetable gardens mixed with dense vegetation. If you are not familiar with the way down, it is easy to get lost by the blinded view. – Squid! Where are you running? Come back. The voice of Mr. Vu calling his dog so that it does not get lost on the way to the beach. Every afternoon, Mr. Vu and his companion ride a bicycle across the Long Bien Bridge, together to cool off along the Red River. Along the riverbank, there are 3-4 large and small beaches. Each beach also went to dozens of people. From children, young people to the elderly, calls to each other, laughs stirred up both sides of the river. No one remembers when these riverside beaches have existed, but for a long time, swimming here is a very familiar living image. Located close to the edge of the Red River, Phuc Xa (Ba Dinh) inn with old cement-tiled roofs has been around for more than 20 years. The inns are long, connected with dozens of rooms. This is known as the lodging area for people from other provinces who come to Hanoi to earn a living with low income. Most of them are workers working in Long Bien night market such as selling, loading, towing … Ms. Pham Thi Ngat is a State official, mobilized to Hanoi in 1992. She owns 30 rooms of about 500 square meters in Phuc Xa ward. In the past, this was a part of arable land along the river, to grow vegetables. Later she poured land, built a room and rented it at a cheap price. The small rooms are the accommodation of 2-3 workers, the area of ​​which just fits a bed, wardrobe, cooking shelf is about 10 m2. People in the neighborhood go to work from 22:00 the day before until 6-7 o’clock the next day. They spend most of their daytime time resting, eating and drinking in their rooms. Until more than 15 o’clock, the inn is still quiet. Only Ms. Khuong and a few people woke up, and she pulled some stained plastic chairs from the house to sit and enjoy the wind. – Wake up, get up here to sit cool, Mrs. Hai, Fresh! The voice of Miss Area was loud enough for Miss Tuoi’s room at the far end of the inn to hear. The story is the same every day, just revolves around the shopping, selling … but always juicy. While talking to each other to eat fruit and hot weather, we buy ice cream and yogurt. Heaven in Hanoi on hot days is considered “harsh” extremely for the neighbors. Sitting in the inn at dusk, Mr. Pham Van Binh dined with sweat drops on his forehead. “In the day it is hot and can’t sleep, and at night there is no strength to go to work,” he lamented. Ms. Tuoi has been working in Hanoi for 4 years now. The room less than 15 m2 is where she lives with her husband and daughter “in and out”. Her health is not good, so the main income in the family is still under the care of her husband and daughter. Occasionally, she went to Long Bien market to take some shrimp and bring them to retail to increase her spending. The temporary accommodation is built on a cultivated land, without a red book. Although she pays full land tax every year, Ms. Ngat and the whole hamlet always have the spirit of “temporary residence”. If the city has land to build, they will move. “The living quarters of the working people are not spacious, beautiful, everything is temporary, but everyone living together is always happy,” said Ms. Tuoi. She added, there are families living here for decades, since the first days the village was built. Just like that, there are kids who have grown up here with their parents. “Grandma let me go ashore”, the boy Hieu called to Mrs. Oanh. For people in Phao hamlet, “going ashore” means going to work, going out, and “going in the water” means going home. The old boat with an area of ​​about 20 m2 has been the house of Mrs. Oanh’s family for nearly 20 years. The whole family of 3 is 3 generations: Grandmother, youngest daughter and grandchild. Nguyen Tien Hieu (5 years old) was born here, can also be considered a Hanoi boy, although Hieu’s birth certificate and household registration must be very difficult to do. Ms. Nguyen Thi Oanh, a farmer from Yen Thanh (Nghe An). She was one of the people in Phao village for the longest time. She did not remember the year she came here, the woman only remembered that her youngest daughter was only 7 years old. Over the years, her boat house has been damaged, or even broken, during the great floods. However, she still repaired to stay, because life here “is still easier than in the countryside”. The Red River is in high water season, every time a boat goes back and forth, the water waves rush into her family’s boat, the boat keeps rocking all day. However, with grandchildren, “it will be familiar to live a long life,” said Mrs. Oanh. The people of Phao village, nearly 30 dozen households, live close together by the river bank. Until now, their activities have no electricity or water. So is Mrs. Oanh’s family. A few units came down to support people with solar panels, batteries. However, every day when the sun is strong, the electricity is strong, and like in winter, the whole space in the boat is dimly lit because there is not enough electricity. Although it is about 3 km from the center, but Phao hamlet wants to connect and move back and forth with the city, there is only one road from the middle of Long Bien Bridge sloping down. A hurried, bumpy, concrete road less than 1m wide with grass cluttering on both sides. Young Hieu attended a private kindergarten across the river. Every day, at 6:30, Mrs. Oanh took her bicycle to school, and picked her up again in the afternoon. A few days ago, while taking Hieu back from school, when we took the bicycle from Long Bien Bridge down the steep road, our two grandchildren fell down and had to wait for everyone around to help. The accident also made her knee aching so far. The life of the people of Phao village was like that, when the big country came, they ran ashore. They stayed at the neighbor’s house. Soon, for a few days, for a whole month. That’s why everyone wants the flood season to be short for life to be stable. When asked, if she later proceeded to plan the land on both sides of the river, where would her family live, Mrs. Oanh just looked at the far bridge, dropping her thin shoulders: Where is not known. At least there is no cost of rent here like the lodgers.