Located at a corner of old Co Ngu Road, present-day Thanh Nien Road and Quan Thanh Street, near Hanoi’s West and Truc Bach lakes, Quan Thanh Temple with its spacious and charming landscape helps highlight the ancient and romantic beauty of this area.
Nowadays, you only need to go to a shop to buy rice for daily use. However, the experience differs in the countryside, especially in the northern and central regions. There, farmers grind grains into rice by grist mills for daily use and sale. The work is hard and requires the endurance, thus the number of households using the Vietnamese traditional tool is lessening.
Together with the art of painting, enamelling and sculpture, the pottery-inlaying art has helped bring Hue’s traditional architectural works to the peak of artistic recognition.