Bronze casting village in Long Dien district

Many people believe that bronze casting here was formed when the Vietnamese on the journey to expand the country to the South stopped in Long Dien to settle down and settle down, gradually handicrafts were formed in it. copper casting. The period 1961-1965 was the golden age of bronze casting, which was loved by many people.

Bronze products are made in a variety of ways, including ancestral worship items, daily living items, to all kinds of bells. Bronze products here are very durable and sophisticated, so they are loved by markets in the South. Previously, from the 7th lunar month to the Lunar New Year every year, the atmosphere here became very bustling. The stoves started to ignite to heat the molten copper, the artisans worked hard to create drawings on the molds, the mold making process always took the most effort and took the most time.

To create a complete copper product is a laborious and elaborate process that includes many steps from preparing copper materials, creating a melting furnace, creating a casting mold, melting copper, Pour copper into the mold and polish, complete the product. For musical instrument products such as copper bells, it requires very skilled workers from mixing the ratio of copper to create high-pitched, resonant sounds. Then there is the decoration of the motifs on the product, these are the experiences that have to go through many lives to accumulate. Currently, only the people of Chuong hamlet (Long Dien town) and An Trung hamlet (An Nhat commune) still persist in doing and developing bronze casting. Partly because the demand for copper products is no longer in high demand as before, and there are many substitutes for copper to make products.