Tong’s house is very strangely decorated, the columns and walls have paintings and verses, praising Uncle Ho’s gratitude or philosophy of life.
The house of Mrs. Nguyen Thi Tong (83 years old) is located in Long Binh commune, Nga Nam town, Soc Trang. The house is located in the eco-tourist site Tan Long Stork Garden – a work built by Tong and his wife and put into service in 1982 (Photo: Bao Ky).Mr. Tong said that since opening the stork garden attraction, it has attracted many visitors. But because they wanted to create a highlight in the eyes of tourists, the old woman and her husband decided to paint more pictures on the columns and walls and insert folk songs, and poems praising President Ho Chi Minh’s merits or human life philosophies. literature, teaching children to live righteously… (Photo: Bao Ky).Over the years, his family, from grandparents to grandchildren, have always remembered Uncle Ho’s advice to live a life useful. The couple has 10 children and about 80 grandchildren. His children all have a prosperous and happy life (Photo: Bao Ky).Uncle Ho’s portrait was painted in front of his house (Photo: Bao Ky).In addition to poems about Uncle, the wall of his house also has frescoes depicting the hard labor process of the old man and his wife in their youth. Thanks to the diligence and hard work, Tong and his wife accumulated money to explore the ancient Nga Nam valley, plant trees and build houses. Also from here, herds of storks came to live with her, they lived on the trees that the family planted. 24 years ago, he renovated the garden and opened it as an eco-tourism site for visitors to visit the stork garden and built this special house (Photo: Bao Ky).The six-bow poem about the efforts of Tong’s family was composed by her husband (Photo: Bao Ky).According to him, the house is about 200m2, but the family took a whole year to build. The reason is that in the past, there were few construction materials, stone and cement had to be smashed from a big rock, gathered little by little to build a house. The total construction cost at that time was more than 1 billion VND (Photo: Bao Ky).Nearly 24 years, even though it has not been repaired, the paint color and text on the wall are still quite visible. The font is elegant, bold and clear (Photo: Bao Ky).
