If you like to read about strange things in the worlds, you may be interested in information about unusual villages of Vietnam herein.
1. Village of giant winter melo
For many years, Chanh Trach village in Phu My, Binh Dinh province is known as the land of giant winter melons. Most of households have several trellises of dangling big winter melons. A normal winter melon in other rural areas has an average weight of about 7-10 kg and every Chanh Trach one weighs approximately 40-50 kg. Some fruits are even meters long with 0.6 m in diameter and about 1 quintal. No one could explain why Chanh Trach village could produce such giant winter melons.
2. Village has its own language
Located about 40 km from Hanoi’s center, Da Chat village in Dai Xuyen, Phu Xuyen is compared to a strange land because villagers use a special language to discuss. If you are not local people, you can not understand the dialogue without an interpreter. The elders said that traditional craft of Da Chat village is mill production and the worker created a private language to keep their profession secrets and tricks. This language is imparted from generation to generation.
3. Village of reincarnation
As reported by the press, the villages of Chieng Chau commune, Mai Chau district, Hoa Binh province are the place where has occurred dozens of reincarnation stories in recent decades. In all cases, the children are normal kids until reaching the age of 3-4 years old, they claimed themselves to be the son or daughter of families living far dozens of kilometers from their houses although the families had no relationship earlier.
4. Village of giant persons
Dinh Trang village in Lam Ha, Phu Ly, Ha Nam has been referred to as “giant village” for over the past years because of extraordinary tall stature of the residents. According to estimates of cadres in the village, the average height of women is 1.70 m and 1.80 for men. the brothers Ngo Van Cong (1.92 m) and Ngo Van Kieu (1.96 m), excellent volleyball players of Vietnam’ s team were born in Dinh Trang village.
5. Carp shaped village
Right after being established, the living space of Hanh Thien village in Xuan Truong, Nam Dinh was planned like the shape of a carp. This shape was created by two branches of a small river which is 7m wide and called Con River. This is also one of the ancient villages of which cultural tradition was recorded in Vietnam’s history.
6. Village of twins
With nearly 100 sets of twins, of which the oldest twins are over 60 years old and youngest twins are only 2-3 years, Hung Hiep hamlet in Hung Loc commune, Thong Nhat (Dong Nai) set the record of the village with most of twins sets in country. In 2007, Hung Loc commune has more than 60 sets of twins, of which Hung Hiep hamlet accounted for 40 sets. Since then, they called Hung Hiep hamlet “twin village”. At present, Hung Hiep has 70 twins sets out of nearly 100 sets of the commune.
7. Village of mental illness
Chua hamlet in Phu Gia village, LocTien commune, Phu Loc district, Thua Thien Hue province has a very high level of mental illness, accounting for over 10% of the population. A lot of research groups came to the village but has yet found the cause of this phenomenon. A proposal of moving the village to another place was offered but the villagers did not agree…
8. Village with no martyr
Tan Lap village in Tan Trao commune, Son Duong district, Tuyen Quang is the only village in Vietnam has no martyr. After many years of war, Tan Lap village has only 2 war invalids and 2 sick soldiers among 104 youth attending the war. Elderly people believe that they are protected by a sacred deity in Tan Trao temple and thereby all the soldiers remain intact from war. Tan Lap village is a relic situated in special national historical relic.
9. Village of tieu sanh walls
People in Tho Ha village in Viet Yen district, Bac Giang province has a traditional craft of making pottery for many years. Thus, they often take advantage of broken tieu sanh (container used for reburial) to build walls. Because the tieu sanh are empty inside, the bees often fly through small holes of the tieu sanh to make hive. Thus, each wall in Tho Ha village is the home to hundreds of bees .
10. Friendly village
Xom Mui hamlet in Ca Mau has more than 80% of house with no door. It is strange that this friendly village has never had robbery. According to explanation of residents, it is due to rustic, charitable character of local people. More than that, the village is located in remote area with only one access. Therefore, no thief dares to come near.
