The Last Artisans Keep The Pottery Craft

Pró Commune, Don Duong District, Lam Dong Province Famous with Pottery Village Chu Ru. This is the traditional profession of the Chu Ru people, characterized by Lam Vien plateau rich in cultural identity. Ceramics have not only helped them establish the village but also help them become rich, which is the cradle that the people are trying to preserve. Mali made a ceramic polishing stage. The ceramic profession has ever since, but in the subconscious of Mali (64 years old, the village shaved K'rang in Pró commune, Don Duong district), making pottery has become a daily job

. Starting to make pottery since 12 years old, to 16 years old, Mali was able to do all kinds of small ceramic, "my grandmother, my mother made pottery, until now I still maintain ceramic craft like blood. Ru that people often call, if it must be K'rang Ceramic village, in the language, the word "couple" in K'Racines means ceramics, referring to the village specializing in pottery making, this name also It is to distinguish from other RU branches. "Mali remembers:" Previously, my whole village made a ceramic and revenue to establish a village, the whole village only had more than a dozen households, poor, no rice, cassava to eat
Also thanks to this pottery, the village has a food, has an aggravator until now. Mau Than in 1968, the fierce war, the villagers ran away from the country, the ceramic profession also lost from there. "It's the old old memories, Mali recalls:" My mother always reminded it again, my village Through twice the "samsara", it was a famine in 1945 and the period of resistance against Japan. Hunger took place, the whole village had to go to beggar together, looking forward to living on the day, then grandparents thought of making pottery in exchange for food. During the anti-Japanese war they burned "headed" the village, the ceramic profession was the only livelihood of living with the village ". Enthvled People in Chu Ru ethnic people have a betting festival, every year on occasion Sun after Tet, everyone will go to Quai Ku Rur mountain, in the land with the name of the village, the people of each village will bring the village products they make to exchange with other villages, which can bring a lot of products For exchange will win. The losing party will be tied up and penalized for drinking. After liberation, in 1979 Mali and some other households returned to the village and continued to maintain a ceramic craft. For her, the ceramic profession is no longer a job to maintain life, but it is the enthusiastic enthusiasm, a promise to keep the village, keep the village's soul for the children, "I have lived by doing it Ceramic, if I leave it now, it's too much. " Her husband lost early, thanks to the ceramic that Mali raised 13 children
To do a K'rang Ceramic Ceramic product, it has to go through many stages such as: Dissing the forest on drying, pouring land into powder, sieve Take the fine soil, stuffing fine soil with water into a plastic mixture, shaping, drying, polishing, in, burning ceramic. Each stage needs meticulousness, if you do it through the speaker, the ceramic will be not durable. Cosomic of other cathers all kinds of other ceramics in the soil, only the land in this pró hill region is qualified to do , before taking the land, it must be donated to a chicken, a chicken alcohol for landowning, especially the ancestors of the landowner who died, if not to do so it would not be successful. in the process of getting land Removing the face of the face, only the soil in the middle, no shallow, no deep, the soil is smooth, not too pasty is not too dry. Ceramic of the k'rang people are especially sure, because in the land with young gold minerals, only some mines can also take ceramic soil. Good soil plus the heating at high temperature helps ceramic products durable for a long time. "Pottery pottery is completely manually, do not use the mold or turntable. Every pattern, shaped shapes are manually made of very gentle, natural, very different lines, "Mali artists share. Many Japanese tourists came to see Mrs. Mali made pottery, they were most impressed by this rustic, soft beauty, so people also called this pottery as a ceramic ceramic.Guyen Chu Ru must dry and dry Obviously, before baked baked through the ground floor, letting the steam picked up the floor to be dry, if the ceramic was wet or the kiln and the pottery will peel, explode in the burning process. This type of ceramic is heated with a large firewood, big fire, the higher the temperature, the higher the product is so beautiful, beautiful. Finished pottery will be naturally red soil, if you want to be black just dip through the rice husk, wait about 2 minutes of ceramic colors to automatically switch to a black ball. Mabi (67 years old, Mali sister) Good for: in the culture of K'ranger with ceramic utensils is important, almost every item is made from pottery. Not only that, each type of ceramic product will serve a different need, as in the kitchen, the pot used to cook rice, bone tunnel, porridge pot, fish warehouse, ... each type will have different shapes And used for separate purposes. Before, when in the house, every house will collect ceramic products, then the whole village will go to other villages to change pottery to take rice. Mabi remembers very well, every time I changed my parents to walk from 1 to 2 days for the forest road, sometimes go to Lam Ha, Dam Rong, ... to fit the needs of customers, Mali Decorated more patterns on the product

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