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According to Confucianism, a woman having but a passive role, must follow three obediences: at [...]
Three Social Ties is the Ethical and social concept in Confucianism. “Tam” is three and [...]
Piece of scholarly classical opera from the 18th century, composed of three acts. It relates [...]
According to popular belief, thunder is a god of the sky (Thiên Lôi); lightning is [...]
Also called hùm, cọp, kễnh, khái, or ông Ba Mươi (Lord Thirty). Tigers live about [...]
In the past, when an epidemic broke out in a village, people tried to appease [...]
Toad meat is used in traditional medicine to treat childhood illnesses and malnutrition. The liver [...]
For Vietnamese people, a tomb is built three years after exhumation with the help of [...]
Waterspout of dragon, as in popular imagination. Very violent wind storm at sea or on [...]
Vietnamese tops have a body of wood or of buffalo horn with a foot (nail) [...]
The making objects in tortoise shell has existed in Hà Tiên, on Phú Quốc Island [...]
In ancient Vietnam, there were no medical schools. Candidates who failed the triennal competitive examination [...]
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Essentially melodic is based on the pentatonic scale and Vietnamese traditional music must be modeled [...]
Trang Quynh is the hero of a series of popular satiric tales. Some of them [...]
An Sinh Village (Đông Triều District, Quảng Ninh) is considered the cradle of the Tran [...]
On Tran Thua Road (Loc Vuong Commune, Nam Dinh City). This is the native district [...]
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Vietnamese traditional costumes for men, generally, are in cotton cloth without folds, with large upper [...]
Mountains stretching from Quang Binh to the Central Highlands in a north-south direction. In some [...]
Tu Thuc Cave is located in Thanh Hóa Province. According to legend, Tu Thuc lived [...]
Turmeric (nghe: Curcuma aromatic rhizome). Cylindrical or fusiform tuber with orange-yellow flesh. It serves in [...]
Tuong – Vietnamese Opera is one of the genres of the Vietnamese traditional theatre. It [...]
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In the past, only the well-to-do used umbrellas. Common saying: Sáng vác ô đi, tối [...]
Like other Asian languages, Vietnamese has several terms for aunts and uncles. “Bác” is used [...]
Along with vital force (khí or qi), one of the fundamental concepts of Neo-Confucianism during [...]
In Buddhism, the place on the right of the palace of the tenth King of [...]
Buddhists abstain from eating meat (even eggs) to avoid killing living beings. Monks follow a [...]
The village is the basic unit of rural society, divided into hamlets (thôn, xóm). It [...]
Van chi means an outdoor altar in the shape of a brickwork platform; a văn [...]
The traditional village hierarchy comprises, in order of seniority, the first notable (tiên chỉ), the [...]
Village Crier was a man responsible for making announcements concerning communal decisions. He attracted people’s [...]
Each village traditionally decided on its own customs and rules governing local activities, from worship [...]
A chapel where village elders were worshipped after their death. As with village altars, “thọ [...]
Mo Trach Village (Hai Duong Province) produced 36 doctoral laureates at civil-service examinations from the [...]
Social standing in the traditional village was based on titles obtained in the civil-service examination [...]
The person who supervised village conventions and contracts relating to bridges, roads, irrigation canals, harvests, [...]
Many candidates who could not pass civil-service examinations or only passed minor examinations became village [...]
In ancient times, a village watchman was elected by the villagers to attend to general [...]
Virtue is the concept in ancient Sino-Vietnamese philosophy. In the ordinary sense, it means good [...]
Vital force is the concept in ancient Sino-Vietnamese thought. In its proper sense, it designates [...]
The ancients believed that vitality abounds in the earth and in the east (where the [...]
Vong Co (Lamenting the past) is the dominant theme of Cai Luong theater, marked by [...]
What is Votive Paper – Hang Ma? Based on the popular belief that the dead [...]
It was no doubt Nguyen Duc Binh who, in 1962, sang the highest praise of [...]
Nguyen Duc Binh’s article was violently criticized at that time and its author accused of [...]
Yet, certain authors refrain both from enthusiasm and outright rejection. This is the case of [...]
It is not easy to try to retrace Ho Xuan Huong’s life. Even her very [...]
Ho Xuan Huong was successively the second ranked wife of the Prefect of Vinh Tuong, [...]
Banter Addressed to Chieu Ho Poet: Ho Xuan Huong Is this student out of his [...]
Besides poetry, Ho Xuan Huong had another passion: contemplating landscapes. A free woman without husband [...]
For Ho Xuan Huong poetic contests are not futile rhetorical exercises. In those times, literature [...]
In the following poem, she sketches the caricature of the bonze who must, in principle, [...]
Ho Xuan Huong denies the male’s superiority consecrated by Confucian ethics. She complains of the [...]
Banished by Confucianism, the nude is absent from ancient Vietnamese art, except for a certain [...]
The Mountain of Ba Doi Poet: Ho Xuan Huong A gap, a pass and still [...]
The Grotto of Cac Co Poet: Ho Xuan Huong Heaven and earth gave birth to [...]
The Mount of Husband and Wife Poet: Ho Xuan Huong What a funny sight the [...]
The Swing Poet: Ho Xuan Huong Glory be to whoever so pleasantly placed the four [...]
The Fan Poet: Ho Xuan Huong Seventeen, eighteen… what is the proper number? Never mind, [...]
Troi Cakes Poet: Ho Xuan Huong My body is white, my shape, round, Many and [...]
Ho Xuan Huong is feminine not only in her fight for woman’s rights against interdictions, [...]
The King’s Cat and The People’s Cat Poet: Doan Thi Diem When the tom-tom resounds, [...]
Autumn Evening Poet: Doan Thi Diem The rain falls drop by drop on the banana [...]
Evening of Regret Poet: Doan Thi Diem In the sky at dusk lingers the sun’s [...]
A middle-aged Parisian is bored to death. He doesn’t have to work for a living [...]
Many foreign visitors on Vietnam vacation packages, as well as many Vietnamese, have been thrown [...]
Walking On Stilts (Di Ca Kheo) is the traditional folk game of Vietnamese people. The inhabitants [...]
War Memorial (Lệ Đàn). A chapel built by royal order on a battlefield, dedicated to [...]
Water Chestnut (Củ Ấu) is an aquatic plant with white flowers. The cooked fruit has [...]
There are in Vietnam several picturesque waterfalls such as Ban Gioc Waterfall (Cao Bang Province) [...]
Watermelon is the annual trailing plant producing a large fruit with a hard rind that may [...]
Vietnam has a hot and humid climate, influenced by seasonal monsoons. The climate in the [...]
Weaving Competition Festival is the traditional festival in Thi Cam Village (Hanoi). A bamboo tent [...]
Traditionally, weddings take place at the home of the bride’s family. The groom’s family comes [...]
Custom holds that one may not get married during the three years’ mourning period for [...]
Along with the bamboo hedge, a common symbol of the Vietnamese village. Wells are generally [...]
Well of Fairies is the water gushes from the karst rocks at this well in [...]
West Lake is the large lake (500 hectares in area) in the northwest of Hanoi, [...]
The country of Buddha is said to lie to the west of Mt Bà. It [...]
Western Region (Xu Doai) is the area to the west of Hanoi, which includes the [...]
Wild Boar is larger than the domestic pig, boars have stiff grey or reddish-brown fur. [...]
Wild Buffalo is the ancestor of the domestic buffalo, with a larger body, thick, long [...]
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