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Brown pattern and brown ceramics of Ly-Tran dynasties, 11th-14th century
  • 26/06/2015 09:51

Brown pattern and brown ceramics of Ly-Tran dynasties, 11th-14th century

The brown pattern ceramics of Ly-Tran dynasties were made carefully with thick bone and brown glazed patterns against ivory glazed ground or with brown glaze only. This included types of domestic wares and ceremonial purposes, such as: ewer, tureen, jar, bowl, vase, lamp-stand, basin, cup, plate, box, stupa, urn, stem-cup, statue...

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  • 15/06/2015 09:39

The long house in Ko Sia

In the past, Ko Sia was a small hamlet with long houses of the Ede ethnic people. It is one of four ancient hamlets which make up present-day Buon Me Thuot City. When the city was expanded, Ko Sia Hamlet in Tan Lap Ward was urbanised and the cultural features of the Ede people were gradually lost. In this situation, more than 10 years ago, village elder Ma Len gathered the senior people in the hamlet to set up a gong troupe of Ko Sia Hamlet to teach young villagers to play the gongs, a unique cultural identity of the Ede group in Tay Nguyen (the Central Highlands)

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  • 23/04/2015 14:30

Dak Lak Museum of Ethnology

(VOVworld) – Dak Lak Museum of Ethnology is a place that should not be missed if you visit the Central Highlands. This museum preserves and presents the culture quintessence of ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands. The museum has more than 10,000 objects and receives about 100,000 visitors a year, one third of whom are foreigners.

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Long tong festival of the Tay in Lang Son
  • 17/03/2015 15:01

Long tong festival of the Tay in Lang Son

(VOVworld) – At the beginning of the lunar year, about 200 Long tong, Going to the field, festivals are organized in Tay hamlets in Lang Son province. The festival takes place in the first lunar month to pray for the new crop.

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Bac Ha market in the early days of the lunar New Year
  • 17/03/2015 14:37

Bac Ha market in the early days of the lunar New Year

(VOVworld) – Bac Ha market in Lao Cai province is held every Sunday morning. The market, located at the center of Bac Ha district, the market is a trading center for ethnic minority people in Bac Ha district and neighboring areas. It offers a wide range of products, including clothes, farm tools, and housewares. The New Year’s session of the market is even more colorful and exciting than usual.

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Parallel Sentences in Vietnamese New Year
  • 18/02/2015 08:51

Parallel Sentences in Vietnamese New Year

Parallelism played an important role in Vietnamese classical literary style. It marks every literary genre from prose to poetry, including a kind of rhymed pose. It entirely governs a particular genre, call parallel sentences.

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  • 18/02/2015 08:47

Traditional New Year Painting

You may have seen them before. They adorn the walls of Vietnamese restaurants everywhere in the world and Vietnamese overseas hang them up as Lunar New Year approaches. In Vietnam, production of these folk paintings peaks right before Tet as merchants stock up in anticipation of heavy customer demand. These paintings are traditionally used to decorate homes for the New Year festival.

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The photographs of an unforgettable moment in the history of Vietnamese revolution
  • 19/01/2015 10:01

The photographs of an unforgettable moment in the history of Vietnamese revolution

Almost 70 years ago, the first diplomatic document or the Franco-Vietnam Agreement of March 6th, 1946 was signed in Hanoi by the Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Government of the French Republic.

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Beauty of the Ancient Architecture
  • 23/09/2014 10:05

Beauty of the Ancient Architecture

A part from Hoi An, Hanoi is Vietnam’s only city where ancient streets can be found. These streets still keep the same appearance that they had at the end of 19th century. According to historical sources,they have been the true core of Thang Long since its foundation nearly a thousand years ago.

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Tale of Vietnamese Dragon
  • 16/09/2014 09:09

Tale of Vietnamese Dragon

In Asian myths, no creature is as impressive as the dragon. For Vietnamese peasants, the dragon was a vivid symbol of the fourfold deity-clouds, rain, thunder and lighting. Represented by an S shape, dragons are depicted on artifacts dating back to the Dong Son-Au Lac culture, which existed in northern Vietnam in the first millennium B.C. Later came the cult of Tu Phap, or the Four Miracles. Long ago stargazers identified the Dragon constellation made up of seven stars arranged like an S. The brightest star is the Mind (Tam), also known as the Divine (Than) star. The word Than may also be read as Thin (Dragon), which denotes the third month of the lunar calendar and represents the Yang vital energy.

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