SLC-S33/W5 | Beyond the Map : The Living Heritage

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The shop

Assalamu Alaikum, how are you all? I hope everyone is well. Today I will share with you a post about a blacksmith shop in Companiganj Chowdhuryhat Bazar. Here the blacksmith shop is an important part of people's daily life and important work because here in the blacksmith shop, various types of iron are made of things that people use every day, such as iron, pills, spades, cough syrups, and many other types of things. Here, iron is heated in the fire and hit with a hammer in the old method. But this word reaches the ears of people passing by and people also buy the necessary things of people from these places. In other words, people can easily make their daily favorite things from this shop.

Blacksmith

Where is this place located, how can visitors reach it, and when did you visit it?

This shop is located in the busy market of Companiganj Chowdhuryhat. People can easily find this farm shop to come to the market and you can easily reach this shop by taking a rickshaw or auto rickshaw with CN. This shop is on one side of the vegetable market of the market and here, but in fact, you can see that hot iron is hit with a hammer and various types of things are made. For example, you can see that the iron is heated and hit in the old way and the sound of the impact can be heard. People also make the daily necessities of people here and if you want to say, people can easily make iron axes, shovels, knives, and other various types of things for their daily work from here.

New teeth and scissors

What tradition, craft, occupation, food culture, or community practice makes this place culturally significant?

Blacksmith shop is a traditional craft because people make many essential and daily necessities in blacksmith shop like making different types of things by hitting hot iron here and repairing old things here and during the time of Abat but the sound reaches people's ears and old culture is visible to people and there are some people but they use it as their profession they used to do this work here in this place before also people used to make their old da bari kuidal churi kashi and other things here. In other words old culture of people is this blacksmith shop.

Big spade

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How has this heritage been preserved and passed from one generation to another?

In fact, these blacksmith shops are basically a family business, where the elders teach the younger members of their family and it is passed down from one generation to another. Here, this man used to work with his father earlier, now the man does it himself and teaches his son this job. This industry is a very big profession for them. That is why they have been doing this job since today and they heat iron in a hot fire to make various kinds of things and they make sounds and people use these things for their daily needs. So this job is a family business, so understand this job from one generation to another.

A few pills

Large and small spades

How does this living heritage contribute to the local community or economy today?

Originally, this blacksmith shop in Chowdhuryhat, a traditional shop, started playing a big role in the economy because new and old things are made in this blacksmith shop and these kinds of things are used in agricultural work and daily necessities among families. Similarly, the blacksmiths earn money as the blacksmiths make their things for agricultural work and household including axes, axes, spades, and axes. This makes the blacksmith self-sufficient and can bring a smile to the faces of the family. But the Chowdhuryhat market also makes the economy beautiful because when many people come to the blacksmith shop to make something, they buy many kinds of things from the market.

Small spade and pickaxe

Made spade

What can visitors see, learn, or experience here that helps them understand the local culture and heritage?

Chowdhuryhat is a blacksmith shop where visitors can actually see firsthand how they make different types of things with iron, such as by beating hot iron, they make different types of things. It can be understood from the front and when any person can see the traditional blacksmithing industry from the front, they can gain experience. But in the old way, the blacksmiths make their products and this culture, but when a person sees it and sees how it is made, it is beneficial for them to see it from the front and know about the experience. And it helps to understand the culture.

Equipment

Coal and gas

What challenges could threaten this heritage, and what can be done to help preserve it for future generations?

The traditional blacksmith shop in Chowdhuryhat Bazaar is a shop that is in demand by the people, although people's interest is gradually decreasing because the prices of iron and other things are high nowadays and for this reason many people do not want to make these things now and people have less interest in making these things. Now, due to technology, people are slowly abandoning the old method of making these things by heating iron. I think if these things are promoted in the old way, blacksmith shops will gradually be promoted to the people and if these shops do not survive, these shops will slowly disappear.

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