Le Xuan Nam Nam, 71, said he has many antiques from his great-grandfather's time, and his own collections. Generations of his family collected antiques not for trading but for the preservation of cultural and historical values for their descendants.

These types of antiques Nam collected were very cheap, only from a few tens of thousands of VND to the most expensive of more than 1 million dong.

Among Nam's antiques, many people want to buy items for more than a billion dong, but Nam has not sold them.

Talking about why he ​​made a map of Vietnam with ancient plates, Nam said that he wanted to show his love for his homeland and country.

In 2018, he came up with the idea and hired a construction worker to sketch a map of Vietnam on the wall of his house with an area of ​​about 20m2. All of his paintings are decorated with 365 antique plates from the Nguyen Dynasty (representing 365 days), and the map he made has more than 200 pieces.

On the map, the area of Hanoi has the image of One Pillar Pagoda, while the center of Ho Chi Minh City is covered with the image of Nha Rong harbor where Ho Chi Minh went to find a way to save the country.

Le Duong