A rare place to keep the traditional craft of making Mid-Autumn toys in Hung Yen

About 30km from the center of Hanoi is Ong Hao village (Lieu Xa commune, Yen My district, Hung Yen), a long-standing craft village of making traditional Mid-Autumn toys. While many families change careers, Mr. Vu Huy Dong's house still preserves his father's profession and becomes a place to visit and learn for many tourists when coming to Lieu Xa.

About 30km from the center of Hanoi, Ong Hao village (Lieu Xa commune, Yen My district, Hung Yen) is a long-standing craft village of making traditional Mid-Autumn toys. While many families change careers, Mr. Vu Huy Dong's house still preserves his father's profession and becomes a place to visit and learn for many tourists when coming to Lieu Xa.

Over the past 60 years, people in Ong Hao village have passed down the profession of making Mid-Autumn Festival toys, but now there are only a few families like Mr. Dong's. His family's Dong Hanh facility mainly produces paper masks with images of rabbits, cats, buffaloes, dogs, tigers, Mr. Dia, Thi No...

Making paper mache masks is not too difficult or complicated, but requires the worker to be meticulous and careful in each stage of production. The last step is coloring and drawing the mask, which is the most important when creating the soul of the product.

All Mid-Autumn Festival toys of Ong Hao village are made by hand. With masks, initially the craftsman will use molds made from cement to cover paper with glue. Most of the mask paper is used such as student books, old design paper...

After finishing, the mask is left to dry and removed from the mold to dry thoroughly.

Dried papier-mâché masks will have a very solid shape, ready to be drawn and colored, trimming excess details to perfection.

Every year, about a month and a half before the 15th day of the 8th lunar month, households that make traditional Mid-Autumn Festival toys like Mr. Huy's house turn on the lights day and night to keep up with production orders.

Although through many years of ups and downs, customer tastes have changed, paper mache masks as well as many other traditional crafts have also had to gradually change. Mr. Dong created 20 mask designs including the 12 zodiac animals and folk characters...

In addition to paper mache masks, Ong Hao villagers also produce drums, leather-faced drums ranging in size from small to large, suitable for handheld playing, decoration or even festival performances...

Unicorn and lion head masks are also popular during Tet holidays, not just the Mid-Autumn Festival. Nowadays, not only are they sold for children to play with, papier-mâché masks, drums, lion heads, and unicorn heads are also bought by many shops for decoration, and by tourists as souvenirs... Tourists come to When visiting Ong Hao village, you will have the opportunity to learn how to make and buy Mid-Autumn Festival toys at traditional establishments like Mr. Hao's house. The price of each mask starts from about 20,000 VND.

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