Mai Xá, Gio Mai
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Mai Xá is an ancient village in Gio Mai
Gio Mai
Gio Mai is a commune of Quang Tri Province, Vietnam. The commune is divided into three villages: Mai Xa, Mai Thi, Lam Xuan....

 Commune, Gio Linh District, Quang Tri Province
Quang Tri Province
Quảng Trị is a province on the North Central Coast of Vietnam, north of the former imperial capital of Huế.-Geography:Located in North Central Vietnam, Quang Tri Province is surrounded by Quang Binh Province on the north, Thua Thien-Hue Province on the south, Savannakhet Province of Laos on the...

, Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

. This village is not only famous for its historical relic but also possessed of traditional fondness for learning on over the world.

Etymology

The village's name derives from Sino-Vietnamese (Hán Tự:梅舎).

Village is located where three rivers of the three major rivers in Quang Tri
Quang Tri
Quảng Trị is a town district of Quang Tri province in the North Central Coastal region of Vietnam. Significantly, it was the only South Vietnamese provincial capital to be captured by the North Vietnamese forces for a limited period in the 1972 offensive....

, the Thach Han River, Hieu River and river wing Today. So, trade in marine Mai Xá is very convenient. And because the village is located along the river so from the new formation, Mai Xá has quickly become a place teeming with population. In particular, the lord
Lord
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 Nguyen Phuc Tan, when he dredged, canalize rivers wing day, the location of Mai Xá village consecutive become a bustling commercial .

Geography

Mai Xá village, north bordering Lâm Xuân village, south of a line Hieu River runs through the eastern borders with Mai Thị, and western borders with social Gio Quang.

Administrative divisions

Mai Xá is divided into four main hamlets:
  • Xóm Đồng
  • Xóm Rộc
  • Xóm Chợ
  • Xóm Soi

Mai Xá Chánh Communal House

Mai Xá Chánh Communal House has built a nearly five centuries, on a high mound, a line Hieu River flows through the front house.
This house was built by ancient architecture, type the chest Central Central, length 12 m, width 8.2 m, including 3 time, 3 bottles. Loss column components, often, move your hands are made of jackfruit
Jackfruit
The jackfruit is a species of tree in the Artocarpus genus of the mulberry family . It is native to parts of Southern and Southeast Asia. It is the national fruit of Bangladesh, . The jackfruit tree is believed to be indigenous to the southwestern rain forests of India...

 wood
Wood
Wood is a hard, fibrous tissue found in many trees. It has been used for hundreds of thousands of years for both fuel and as a construction material. It is an organic material, a natural composite of cellulose fibers embedded in a matrix of lignin which resists compression...

 with carvings patterns.

Above the roof is decorated home unicorn, the phoenix bird art covered with plaster and porcelain pieces to pair... Front door mounted system designed wooden "lowering the upper room. Previous projects have money to build a peace room 5m long, 3m high, is mounted between the words "Dragon", "Horse" porcelain flowers. Average room has 4 outer square head, each surface is 60cm. Square on the head-mounted lantern square, each side high 80 cm.
Within the family is divided into two parts. The previous section for the holidays or for meetings, cultural activities of the village. This place has carved and two pairs of parallel sentences are intricate carvings, great place to praise home located a series of three mild meet and create conditions for people converge and build a life of no warmth. The following section is a place and put incense altar.
Mai Xá village chief took place where many important events, and a ceremony conducted in any year of the villagers. With historical value, cultural capital is the long house, the end of 2007, Quang Tri People's Committee Decision house recognized as "historic relic provincial cities" (see picture). Over the years rain sunshine, village has degraded, it should be soon restored.

Today the village of Mai Xá still preserved many traditional, more festivals and a rich diversity of cultural values and traditions of community like high: "chạp mả", Assembly boat racing, international revenue, and down co, and for rails, bridges and fishing...

Landscape

Hà Cộc is considered the most beautiful landscape of Mai Xá village. This is a primitive forests, many birds that gathers most stork
Stork
Storks are large, long-legged, long-necked wading birds with long, stout bills. They belong to the family Ciconiidae. They are the only family in the biological order Ciconiiformes, which was once much larger and held a number of families....

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Speciality

Mai Xá's bún hến, most famous noodle dish appointment. This is a dish is made from small clam
Clam
The word "clam" can be applied to freshwater mussels, and other freshwater bivalves, as well as marine bivalves.In the United States, "clam" can be used in several different ways: one, as a general term covering all bivalve molluscs...

, a specialty dish of the village. Small clam brackish water species, living in concentrated Thach Han River. Small clam fresh water is, therefore, it has long since become popular dish for many people.

Beside of small clam noodles, Bánh học is a specialty of the village. This is the type of bread made from new types of plastic sticky fragrant, usually only be made on New Year. Initially, people roasted sticky rice mixed with sugar provide complete, ginger and peanuts, for the wood frame (size about 12 x 30 cm) and use small wood close to the wheel hard to make.

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