The paintings of Sinh Village in Huong Tra Dist, Thua Thien Hue Province, are very simple with plain glyphs and traditional colours, reflecting people’s innermost feelings, wishes and simple dreams. Sinh village, a traditional craft village is known as paper pictures for ritual ornamental purposes.
Unlike the painting genres of Dong Ho in Bac Ninh Province and Hang Trong in Hanoi, the paintings of Sinh Village in Huong Tra Dist, Thua Thien Hue Province, are very simple with plain glyphs and traditional colours, reflecting people’s innermost feelings, wishes and simple dreams. The trade village about painting served for worship of local people.
Sinh paints are mainly serving belief. It can be divided into 3 types. The paints about characters are mainly Guan Yin Statue. Other paints are called “con anh” including two types: woman and man paints, boy and girl paints. Sinh Village’s paintings are very simple in lines and traditional colours of red, green, yellow and black.
The paintings are made using just one printing-board which is created from jack wood. It is durable, worm resistant and easy to carve to create the drawing lines and black shapes. After being printed in black, the work is sometimes completed with embellishments made with colourful lines. Some paintings are still printed on rustic paper. Many Vietnamese also keep the old tradition of Mau (Mother) worshipping and devote an altar to this purpose. Pictures of Mau, like other ritual pictures, are replaced once a year on the threshold of Tet. Many Vietnamese also keep the old tradition of Mau (Mother) worshipping and devote an altar to this purpose. Pictures of Mau, like other ritual pictures, are replaced once a year on the threshold of Tet.
Sinh village, built in the 15th century on the bank of the Perfume River, once supplied 50 different types of pictures.
Sinh traditional painting village prepare for upcoming Tet holiday
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