Unicorn Head Making Village In Hue Vietnam with many distinctive features compared to other regions, are exported to all parts of the country, bringing joy to children in the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Sticking the Colourful Cloth on Unicorn Head
In the first days of the eighth lunar month, the traditional phosphorus-making furnaces in Hue City (Thua Thien - Hue) hurriedly completed the products to market. The lion's head mold is made from cement, the worker glued the paper and completed the necessary stages on this mold.
Painting The Unicorn Features
In addition to making phosphate by cement mold, phosphate head made of rib frame is also a characteristic of Hue phosphate. The frame of the unicorn head is completely handmade, the main materials of which are bamboo, rattan and the high level skills.
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Mr. Cao Xuan Thang (living in Ong Ich Khiem Street - Hue City) with 18 years of experience as a traditional unicorn head said that Hue unicorn head is more unique than that in other regions by decorative motifs, this is also is the hardest stage to get a beautiful unicorn head.
Funny Mask in Unicorn Show
Le Quang Nhat Truong (23 years old), who has worked as a lion head for 4 years for the Bach Ngoc Duong delegation in Hue City (Thua Thien - Hue), said that he was the first lion leader but he was happy and fascinated. A unicorn head is completed as a work of art that every craftsman wants to blow soul into his work.
A worker at the Thu Lan facility (Nguyen Phuc Nguyen street - Hue city) is pasting a paper paste on the unicorn's tongue. Near the Mid-Autumn Festival, the facilities worked hard day and night to fulfill orders from customers inside and outside the province.
After the lion head is on the mold, the worker will stick a glittering cloth on the unicorn head before continuing to draw the decorative motifs. Drawing is the most important part of creating a soulful unicorn.
Wrapping in Unicorn Head
Mr. Dia's head is an indispensable product for lion dance. Most of the factories that manufacture lion heads will always do Mr. Dia's head so that customers can buy the whole set at the workshop.
A worker is sewing decorative borders, tails, eyelids and many fabric details to decorate on the unicorn. In order for the details to be thorough and accurate, they were forced to work in the dark, yielding the focus of light to the details that needed to be meticulous and sophisticated.
The Raw Unicorn Head
Currently, in Hue City, there are more than a dozen households still keeping traditional lion-head jobs. In the early days of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the kilns used to make rushed heads to complete products to market, to serve customers everywhere.
At this time, the streets selling unicorn head start bustling. Many parents choose their unicorn head for their child to play on the full moon night, the teenagers gather to buy unicorns to dance to make money on this occasion. In the city center, Tran Hung Dao street and Dong Ba market are the places where many of the Mid-Autumn toy shops are located, including Hue unicorn head.
Frame Of Unicorn Head
According to the head of the unicorn, to make a complete unicorn, it needs to go through many stages such as sculpting the mold, cutting the unicorn head from the mold, spraying paint primer, covering with Snow White paint ... For a medium-sized, medium-sized unicorn , the worker makes one in 2 days. For long-term professionals, one day can work up to 2 heads. However, for small unicorns, someone can make 5 to 7 products in a day.
Sawing the Unicorn Head Details
Hue unicorns sold from VND 600,000 to VND 2.5 million depending on type. The unique unicorn of Hue is hand painted, so it has a unique feature. Each unicorn carries a different expression as if it were transmitted from the hands of each worker.