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From the century onwards, this village was a major ceramics center, competing with the villages of Bat Trang and Phu Lang.
The traditional village of Thô Hà, embedded in a meander of the Câu River, about 50 km northeast of Hanoi, was from the 11th century onwards a great ceramic center that rivaled the villages of Bat Trang and Phu Lang. It is especially the funerary urns that made its reputation. In the village, a stele erected in 1693 indicates: "... during the last dynasty, our village already had a pier for its Buddhist market, which was held 12 times a month. It was one of the most famous centers of the delta for its production of earthenware and ceramics: merchants piled up their wares, wealth and goods circulated freely and abundantly. Each household had its own kiln to make tools and a festival was celebrated every autumn..." In 1936, the French geographer Pierre Gourou, indicates that the artisans of Thô Hà went down the Câu River with boats filled with ceramics that they would sell to the extreme south of the delta. They came back up with nuoc mam (fish brine) and salt in order to make the trip profitable. The production of ceramics went into decline and the village is now specialized in the manufacture of banh da, large rice cakes. It has kept from its golden age remarkable cultural and religious heritages, a dinh of an imposing size, the Doan Minh pagoda founded in 1633 and a beautiful gateway to the village. Its architecture and gastronomy are today the main attraction of the village.
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