A total of 540 Nón Lá, a type of palm-leaf conical hat, recently converged on Ninh Kieu wharf in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho to create the largest conical hat in Vietnam.
The giant conical hat draws plenty of public attention over recent days.
The work has been done on the initiative of Dao Thi Cam Suong, a calligrapher from Can Tho.
The giant conical hat is made up of a total of 540 smaller conical hats, with calligraphy written on top.
Suong has spent 89 days writing the calligraphy and finding connections to produce the finished product. The words written on the giant hat include sightseeing spots in Can Tho, folk songs, proverbs, poems, and the names of various provinces and cities across the country.
She shares that the purpose of her work is to honour the beauty of the fatherland through pieces of calligraphy. Indeed, the giant hat is created from 540 small conical hats which themselves represent the country’s 54 ethnic minority groups.
The diametre of the giant hat spans for more than eight metres, with the length from the tip to the brim roughly four meters and the length from the tip of the cone to the ground roughly six metres.
The work has 14 rows of conical hats in total.
Visitors to Ninh Kieu Wharf express their interest in this impressive work, with many flocking to snap photos.
A foreign tourist from the United States is curious about the artwork.
The Vietnam Record Organization (Vietkings) has confirmed the piece to be the largest calligraphy conical model in Vietnam.
Vietnamnet.vn
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