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Leaf hat - the characteristics of the Vietnamese

Leaf hat is the familiar image of the Vietnamese woman, though rustic, fragile, flood but no less charming.

Not only rain cover, sunshade, conical hat contains the historical treasures of the wet rice civilization of the Vietnamese. The origin of the hat is the story of a tall woman who always wears a hat made of four rounded leaves. Wherever people appear, the clouds evaporate fast and the weather becomes favorable. After teaching the people how to grow rice and other food crops, the goddess disappeared. The Vietnamese were grateful and built a temple to commemorate the goddess.

The ancient Vietnamese tried to create a model of the goddess's similar hat by threading palm leaves together and now it is called a conical hat. The image of the leaf cone has become too close and familiar to farmers in the fields.

The leaf cones are made from simple and available materials such as palm leaves, conical leaves, bamboo ... But through skillful hands of the artisans, the conical hat has become a symbol of many traditional villages. the system. Village Chuong is a famous hat-making village for centuries. In addition, the poem cone is a famous conical hats in Hue with landscapes and poems.

The leaf cone has many variations from the original version after its first appearance over 3,000 years ago. Many popular types of hats, such as a three-way hat or a flat head, are round and round, about 1 meter in diameter, with a chin strap. Hats are an important accessory of rural women on festivals or temples. In the past, people classified the hats according to the level of the owner. There are some types of hats reserved for the elderly; the rich and mandarins. Each type has its own shape and style; Sometimes the conical hats also vary by region.

Each region in Vietnam has a separate leaf cone. West-colored hats with red thread are very characteristic of Thanh Hoa's conical