Vietnamese New Year or Tet Festival
Vietnamese uses both two kinds of calendar, one is Solar Calendar and other is the Lunar Calendar.
The Solar Calendar is marked for the business year and much more of other things and for people who lives in the cities. While people in the countryside, they put their heart on the Tet and still keep a lots of custom as that is Vietnamese traditional New Year…… View more
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Vietnamese Wedding Ceremony
Viet Nam before 1900 was very strictly in marriage. Even some of couple they had no chance to know each other before their wedding day. Their parents will choose their children’s spouse through a match- maker.
The procedure also is very complicate and has many steps……. View more
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The Story of Betel and Areca Nut
During the time of King Hung-vuong, the Cao family had two sons who looked so much alike that no one could distinguish them apart. Their sagacious Teacher Luu asked his servants to bring a bowl of rice and a pair of chopsticks and called both of them to the table. Lang ceded the meal to his brother…… View more
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Religion in Viet Nam
The main religion in Viet Nam is the mix of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism. Most of people they worship their ancestor for whatever religion they are.
In each family, they have a special place for their ancestor pictures that may be an altar or just a table at the poor family.
Every day, people pray to their ancestors with the incense and praying for their health, their prosperity and happiness…… View more
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Vietnamese Cuisine
The main sauce for Vietnamese food is “ nuoc mam” ( Fish sauce). Fish sauce is made from fish. Only the fresh anchovy fish makes the good quality fish sauce that is clear in color and good smell.
Mix the raw fish-sauce with garlic, chili, lemon juice or vinegar, pure water, sugar .. you will have a special sauce for many kind of dishes as “ goi cuon”, “ Cha gio” ( Spring roll), Banh Xeo ……. View more
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TRUNG THU – THE MID- AUTUMN FESTIVAL
The Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival is a traditional Festival in Viet Nam what called Trung Thu. Its original was from China and held on the August 15th of Lunar Calendar. That also called as Tet Nhi Dong ( Child Festival). The tradition activities for this festival was for children, enjoyed their main food that was moon cake and fruits….. View more
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Vietnamese literature
Vietnamese literature includes two major components: folk literature and written literature. The two forms developed simultaneously and are profoundly interrelated.
Vietnamese folk literature came into being very early and had a profound effect on the spiritual life of the Viet. The folk literature contributed to the formation of Vietnam's national identity with praising beauty, humanism, and the love of goodness. Legends, fairy tales, humorous stories, folk songs, epic poems have a tremendous vitality and have lived on until today….. View more
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The traditional music instruments
Viet Nam has 54 tribal in around the country. There are many kinds of traditional music instruments from those tribes. There are “ Dan Nhi” , “ Dan Nguyet”, “ Dan Co” …in the South. Specially, in the Mekong Delta as they go with the Southern traditional song such as “ Ca Co”, “ Cai Luong”..( the old style of song).
This text introduces just a part of them but the special one and most of them are the instruments of people in the hill tribes….. View more
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Lion dance in Vietnam
Lion dance is a form of traditional dance in Chinese culture, in which performers mimic a lion's movements in a lion costume. The lion dance is often mistakenly referred to as dragon dance. An easy way to tell the difference is that a lion is operated by two people, while a dragon needs many people…. View more
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