Song Ho commune in Thuan Thanh district of Bac Ninh province is renowned locally for making and shipping votive papers during the Vu Lan Festival, a major festival of expressing gratitude to the parents or also a festival of forgiveness of wandering souls celebrated in the 7th lunar month.
Bustling scenes of local people hard at work can easily be spotted across the village over recent days.
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Local villagers are busy making paper models of earthly luxuries for those in the afterworld.
Paper models of houses, cars, planes, helicopters, and all manner of earthly possessions are offered to the dead.
The practice of making such offerings is observed during the seventh lunar month.
Nguyen The Hung is a local craftsman who has spent the last 30 years producing paper offerings. He says that he has received a huge number of orders over recent days.
The price for each product can vary, ranging from hundreds of thousands up to several millions of VND.
Votive objects come in various different shapes and sizes and can be purchased in the locality.
This type of work requires craftsmen to be meticulous whilst also possessing great skill.
A trader uses a motorbike as his main means of transportation in order to ship the products to customers.