The village of making worship items, also known as "colored goods" in Dang Chuong village (Yen Tien commune, Y Yen district, Nam Dinh province) has existed for hundreds of years. Currently, the traditional carpentry of our ancestors is still passed down and developed by households in the village.
"Colorful goods" such as altars, horizontal lacquered boards, parallel sentences, altar thrones, votive doors, altar shrines... are often consumed very strongly at the end of the year.
Mr. Vu Dinh Thuy (Yen Tien commune, Y Yen district) said: "To have products to serve the Lunar New Year 2025, my factory started receiving orders and making Tet items from the beginning of the 10th lunar month. This is also the time when the machines run continuously, my factory has more than 50 workers working overtime day and night and mobilizing more seasonal workers to keep up with orders to serve the market. On average, my family sells about 200 sets of worship items each month. In the last months of the year, the number of sales increases, some months doubling."
To make a complete set of worship items, it must go through many stages such as sawing wood, mixing wood, sketching, carving, drying paint, etc. The price of each set of worship items ranges from a few million VND to hundreds of millions of VND. Depending on the wood material, paint, and size, the price can be even higher.
According to many locals, Dang Chuong village products account for about 40% of the national market for worship items. Therefore, near Tet, many customers and traders come here to shop for their holiday needs.
Coming to Dang Chuong village to order worship items for his family's new house in time for Tet, Mr. Dang Thanh Tuyen (from Ha Nam) shared: "People in my hometown told each other about the beautiful and delicately carved worship items in Dang Chuong, so I went there to see and order the altar. I ordered a stone incense wood altar for 25 million VND at a workshop in the village, and it is expected that the product will be completed by the beginning of the 12th lunar month."
