Van Ha commune, Viet Yen district, Bac Giang province, a piece of land jutting out into the Cau River like a peninsula, is home to beautiful and poetic natural landscapes. Van Ha has traditional craft villages such as wine in Van Village, pottery in Tho Ha village, fishing and river transport in Nguyet Duc village. Van Ha – is also the place where there are enough communal houses, temples, pagodas, Catholic churches and documents…
Van Ha commune (Viet Yen district, Bac Gianh province), a piece of land jutting out into the Cau River like a peninsula, is home to beautiful and poetic natural landscapes. Van Ha has traditional craft villages such as wine in Van Village, pottery in Tho Ha village, fishing and river transport in Nguyet Duc village, Van Ha – which is also home to enough communal houses, temples, pagodas, pagodas, Catholic churches and documents…
Van Ha people have the custom of worshiping mountain gods, river gods, and local people, worshiping the father of pottery, Dr. Dao Tri Tien, and worshiping the ancestor of wine, Nghi Diet. Viet Duc transport, fishing and fishing village has a Thien Chua church with a soaring bell tower located on the banks of the romantic Cau River.
In general, the communal houses in Van Ha are large-scale and have aesthetic value. Tho Ha communal house, built in 1692. The communal house is decorated with patterns with themes of dragons, animals, flowers, leaves, clouds, fire… among them, the carvings of girls riding phoenixes and dragon heads are one of the most beautiful architectural and sculptural works in Vietnam, ranked as national historical relics by the Institute of Antiquity and the Ministry of Culture and Information of our country. Behind the communal house is Doan Minh pagoda, also a famous pagoda in the area. As an ancient land with communal houses, temples, pagodas, towers and traditional craft villages, Van Ha has many festivals: Firstly, the temple festival is held on the 21st – 26th day of the fourth lunar month at the Main Temple to worship Saint Tam Giang, who is both a national hero, river god and snake god. The sacrificial ceremony took place very solemnly, with an army of naked loincloths on duty, increasing the power and sacredness of Saint Tam Giang, causing a strong impact and a profound educational effect on the saint's behavior and merits.
In August, there is a procession held at the temple, the procession is very solemn: the first is the Bat Am ward, dancing to make money, then the palanquin places the tablets, the festival has all kinds of games such as: cockfighting, wrestling, chess, blindfolded goat catching, in the evening there are opera performances, cheo…
Tho Ha village festival in the spring is held on the 12th and 22nd of the first lunar month, and in the fall it is open for many days. Every year, when it is prosperous, the villagers will prepare cows to sacrifice to the gods. In addition to the Tho Ha village festival, there is also the Van Pagoda festival, also known as the Thuong Nguyen festival, which attracts tens of thousands of visitors to the festival. With unique cultural, historical and craft village features, Van Ha really has great potential to become an attractive tourist destination of Bac Giang.