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Feeling happy with the hat

The conical hat of Vietnam today is attached to the mother, sister in all weather conditions and in all activities of life. As life develops, there are more beautiful, richer hats, and the cone remains an indispensable part of many women working and selling.

Hats are attached to the people of Vietnam

Our father has long known that the leaves to cone hat to cover the rain cover sun, the hat is made from many different leaves such as palm leaves, leaves, leaves, leaves, straw, straw ... Male has a strap to hold a hat on the head. Leaf hat is a very simple and rustic widget bearing the cultural identity of the nation.

No one knows the hat has ever since, only the childhood of many people have attached to it. It was hot, Mom removed the hat on the fan to sleep in the sleep. It rained, it covered the rain water imbued on the mother's face, solving the flying cone flying in the wind. On the way to go to the field, find the delicious wild vegetables, mothers down picking, now the hat replaced the basket, mother brought back for lunch. So the hat is attached to the people of the country, so dear and closer than ever.

A bright morning, standing on the floor looking down a market, will see the undulating hats are still crowded women choose to spend their livelihood. The street vendors, peddling bicycles, trolleys all over Saigon and the whole country ... carry a hat to cover the sun. Hidden under the conical hat is the face strenuous life algae frequency of living.

Sticking with the working people is, the old hat also follow the soldiers to the battle, the cone follow the amateurs to go to the festival ... In the treasure of Vietnamese poetry, the hat is the image appears frequently in love stories or folk life everyday. The hat became a part of the rural life of the Vietnamese people.

Each region has its own distinctiveness. The conical hats or cones are made from the hands of the people of Binh Dinh. The cones are made of pineapple leaves, which are often used when riding horses, which are often used by officers and soldiers. Due to horse riding characteristics, the cones are usually firmer than the conical hats. Inside the cone decorate embroidery motifs, usually the shape of dragon, phoenix, pheasant, peacock.

In the North, there are handbags often accompanied by new clothes. The hat is made of palm leaf or leaf shaped like mushroom ear and with strap. Today this kind of hat is often used in festivals or folk songs Bac Ninh.

In Hue, there is a poem hat, there are so many boys were stunned to see a purple ao dai with a sloping hat cone. This is the image of how long ago is the symbol of the daughter of Hue, gentle, modest and feminine. The poem is characterized by conical hats with two leaves, in the middle is embedded in landscape paintings such as Trang Tien Bridge, Ngo Mon Gate ... or short poems carefully selected.

Regardless of the type of hat, the hands are meticulously crafted with all the heart and spirit of serious work from the stage of the leaves to the stage of completing a hat.

A hat is made to go through many stages of anesthesia (rib cones), ribs, ribs, flanks, ribs, ribbons, and then webs, bridges, decorative prints, new leaf to knit hat.

It is not easy to have a hat on your head. The cone must put in his work the love, the heart of the new hat is pretty durable. Vietnam hats are now being sold at tourist destinations as a souvenir of the culture of the Vietnamese nation.