The Son Dong craft village in Hoai Duc district, Hanoi has existed for more than a millennium. Nowadays, many young villagers work to preserve and develop their time-honoured craft of making wooden statues.

Carving wooden sculptures, especially for graves, is not only a special folk art of ethnic groups in the Central Highlands region but also reflects the spiritual life of people from community, particularly for the Ba Na and Jrai people - the two major ethnic groups in the north of the region.