Perhaps many people are wondering, what the picture above means and what the girl is doing. Yes, it is a photo of the famous mat profession in Nghia Hoa commune, Quang Ngai Province.
Like other East Asian cultures, mat plays an extremely important role in the life of the Vietnamese people. Mat attaches to a person's life from birth to death, the happiest times as well as the saddest times.
In the past, Nghia Hoa mat was famous near and far, thanks to the careful and elaborate process of matting, so the villagers did not need to find the output for the products, but traders everywhere came to order. That flourishing period has now passed, now Nghia Hoa mat can not compete with other products. Fortunately, there are still a few enthusiastic people who want to keep the traditional profession of their father, which has "saved" the craft village from the danger of disappearing. In Nghia Hoa, now the number of households engaged in traditional mat profession is counted only on the fingers. For them, making mat is not merely for economic reasons, but as a nostalgia for the once golden craft village.
