Phu Lang
Phu Lang Pottery Village is one of the famous traditional pottery villages in the country. The pottery village in Phu Lang commune, Que Vo district, Bac Ninh province, is located about 60 km from Hanoi.
According to To Nguyen, Trinh Nguyen in the book Kinh Bac-Ha Bac, the ancestor of Phu Lang pottery is Luu Phong Tu. At the end of the Ly Dynasty, he was sent by the court to send an envoy to China. On this occasion, he learned pottery making and taught it to people in the country. First, this profession was transmitted to the residential area on the banks of the Luc Dau river, then moved to the Van Kiep area (Hai Duong). Around the beginning of the Tran Dynasty (13th century), the profession was transmitted to Phu Lang Trung (according to www.bacninh.gov.vn Archived 2008-12-29 at the Wayback Machine). Phu Lang pottery was formed and developed here around the Tran Dynasty, the XIV century. Currently, the Vietnam History Museum, some collectors still keep and display some Phu Lang ceramic products dating from the 17th - 19th centuries. These are brown glazed ceramic products and the colors of it's like eel skin enamel, light yellow, dark yellow, golden brown...
Nowaday, Phu Lang pottery village is one of the most unique villages in Vietnam, thus making it a place to add in your bucket while visiting.
