Vietnamese people have rich and valuable folk culture and art treasure. Besides the typical folk art and culture types such as Bat Trang pottery, Son Mai painting, Phu Xuyen city, water puppetry, Quan Ho folk songs, Xoan singing ... there is also a line of East paintings. Famous lake. Dong Ho painting has the full name of Dong Ho folk wood carving painting originating from the famous 'Nghe village' in Song Ho commune, Thuan Thanh district, Bac Ninh province. Although there is a long tradition, the painting profession dates back to the Le dynasty in the sixteenth century, but because villagers did not worship their ancestors and did not have any specific records, no one knew Dong Ho paintings well from the beginning. have. Only know that through many ups and downs of history, Dong Ho paintings still exist with unique features, typical for our folk art. Regarding raw materials, traditional Dong Ho folk paintings use completely natural materials, from wood carving, rust, color to scallop layer. Painting paper is made from do paper bark, so it is called do paper. The civet's bark is cooked and soaked in lime water for three months to half a year to allow the black outer crust to peel off. After peeling off the black shell, the civet's bark is put into a mortar and crushed to get the mucus from the tree to form a sticky mixture called "suspension" that the worker will mix with water to sift the paper. The worker will use the brush to sweep the "suspension" mixed with water in the right ratio on the mold with bamboo blinds, which are really thin, very thin, then press, compress, flat and dry in the sun. After drying, the fibers clump together like a multi-layered spider web, creating do paper. That connection creates porosity and lightness for the paper, so that the paper is easy to absorb color, and does not smudge when printing. More specifically, on the doit paper layer was also scanned with a layer of scallop to create a distinctive shine that only Dong Ho painting had. Scallop is also created by many steps, from fine grinding of scallop shells to mixing flour to cook the paste, all require the diligence and meticulousness of the artist. Along with the message paper, the colors of Dong Ho paintings are also gifts of the wonderful nature and the skillful hands, the exploration of the artisan. Vibrant red color extracted from wine wood or pebble on Thien Thai mountain; the warm yellow color comes from the win or flower; the cool green color comes from the rust or indigo - the leaves still used to dye indigo; The soft, soft black color is taken from oval wood charcoal, sticky rice straw or bamboo charcoal that is hidden in jars for several months. Although taken from the same ingredients, each family has its own way of making colors, colors and colors that have become the secret to a fresh, natural look. Thanks to that, those who are connoisseurs of painting, when looking at the colors of the paintings, can guess which house it is. The finesse and carefulness from the way the paper is made to the color processing has created a long lifespan and sustainable beauty of Dong Ho painting. The message paper can last for more than five hundred years and the colors of Dong Ho's paintings are always as bright, bright as when they were printed, without fading or fading. See also: Analysis of The Loneliness of the Mainstream Politician in Dang Tran Con's Political Mainstream - Literature 10th grade Regarding the process, the first step in making Dong Ho paintings is drawing patterns. Although this is only done by one person, from the idea of ​​composing to the completion of the model to the carving of the board, everyone participates in comments and suggestions to correct it, so when completed, Dong Ho painting becomes collective work. The finished drawing will be engraved on the printing board. It is not necessary to engrave the entire sample on a printed board, but a picture engraved on many different printed boards and each board corresponds to a separate color. This is a stage that requires the craftsmanship and endurance of the sculptor, only skilled workers can carve the printing board to a sophisticated level. Moreover, not all wood can be made of printing boards, only wood, guava or golden wood is satisfactory. Because these woods are both soft and firm, the wood flesh is smooth. Finished engraving is used to print pictures. When printing, people use printing boards that have stained the message paper. Each time a color is printed, the colors must match. The color printing process must also follow a certain order. Dong Ho paintings must always be printed in red first and last in black. Through the stages of feats made entirely of natural materials and skillful hands of the artist, Dong Ho paintings are imbued with the love and care of the newly born artist. In terms of development history, Dong Ho painting line also had many ups and downs and events. The golden age of Dong Ho painting was from the end of the nineteenth century to the year 1944, in the village with seventeen families, all seventeen lineages followed the art of making paintings. Every July and August every year, the whole village is busy preparing for the Tet holiday season, the whole village is colorful with scallop paper, not a piece of empty land that is not used by people to dry paper: from the communal yard , along the alleys, village roads, along the dike to the rooftops, the kitchen roof. Like any type of folk culture, Dong Ho painting arose, damaged in a composite form, the parts were closely linked together that as Hoai Thanh said: From infancy, music, poetry, dance and drama are the same 

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