Tay Bac (the Northwest) has always seduced me as the Shangrila of my old dreams, [...]
Last autumn when I was in Sweden my friend E. Dahlstrom who is a professor [...]
The French film Indochine starring Catherine Deneuve, paid renewed tribute in magnificent photography to the [...]
In “The Birth of Vietnam” the author, American historian Keith W. Taylor, insists on the [...]
I was thrilled by my discovery in autumn of Yen Hung, a district southwest of [...]
I came back from an excursion to the ruins of the Castle of Palatine Electors [...]
The traveler getting out of Hanoi and going south takes National Highway One, the former [...]
I was born in the Old Quarter of Hanoi, in Hemp Street where lived retired [...]
In the scorching heat of the 5th and 6th lunar months in Hanoi people like [...]
They have been there, on my desk, for several days now in November 1994 – [...]
After first visiting the south of Vietnam, and before traveling to the north of the [...]
Nghe is abbreviation of Nghe An, and Tinh one of Ha Tinh. These two provinces [...]
Luu Binh and Duong Le is a famous cheo play about two young men. One [...]
The Vietnam Association of Historical Sciences has just commemorated the 20th anniversary of the death [...]
From the popular cheo play Kim Nham, Kim Nham is a native of Xuan Truong [...]
The expression comes from the cheo play Thi Kinh, the Goddess of Mercy (Quan Am [...]
Chu Ma Than is a strong- willed man. He earns his living by gathering firewood [...]
One of the favorite themes of anti-Vietnamese press campaigns in the seventies and eighties was: [...]
The mission of the Vietnam Cheo Theatre Company, which was established in 1951, is to [...]
A disturbing question remained as the curtain descended after Vietnam’s first National Traditional Cheo Festival [...]
Vietnamese people, especially those living in rural areas, have not turned their backs on tuong, [...]
Thiet Tru Village Troupe, Binh Minh Commune (Hung Yen Province), sixty kilometers southeast of Hanoi. [...]
Khuoc is one of the three famous cheo villages in Thai Binh Province. In turn, [...]
Vietnamese operas always have background music. The traditional instruments used on a cheo san dinh [...]
Actors and actresses performing cheo – whether as central characters, heroes, heroines, buffoons, or villains [...]
In Vietnam’s distant past, song and dance ceremonies honored deities with special melodies describing their [...]
Subtle dramatic changes in lyrics and melodies are an outstanding feature of cheo. Classical cheo [...]
Diem Loc. Audiences familiar with cheo will recall the actress Diem Loc for her many [...]
Eminent Artist Thanh Tram and the young actresses, Van Quyen, An Chinh, and Hoai Thu, [...]
Ha Van Cau. He taught himself French and Chinese scripts and is now fluent in [...]
People’s Artist Nguyen Thi Minh Ly, Born in 1912 in former Hai Hung Province. She [...]
Hoa Tam. During the 1940s, Buoi villagers often talked lovingly about her. Hoa Tam was [...]
Tao Mat (the stage name of Nguyen Dang Thuc) was born into a poor peasant [...]
Actress Thanh Hoai of the Vietnam Cheo Theatre Company is a well-known name on the [...]
Narrative Cheo gives voice to the farmers of the Red River Delta. Its stories differ [...]
Stereotyping the characters in cheo is conventional and standardized. Unlike the characters in spoken drama [...]
Since the first millennium B.c., the Red River Delta has been the cradle of the [...]
Cheo and water puppetry are unique products of the Red River Delta civilization but cheo [...]
Tuong and Cheo are both Vietnamese traditional theatrical art forms. Vietnamese Tuong originated in China [...]
Cheo hasn’t always been as popular as it was at the First National Traditional Cheo [...]
Whole villages take part in Cheo. Traditionally, the stage is a sedge mat spread in [...]
This is the recipes for making Quick Banana Coconut Cake – Banh Chuoi Nuong in [...]
Slush lce Lychee in Coconut Milk (Lychee fruit is growned a lot in the north [...]
This is the recipe making Steamed Rice Flour and Mung Bean Cakes with Coconut Sauce [...]
Nha Xa silk weaving village (Moc Nam commune, Duy Tien district, Ha Nam province) sit [...]
Going through many ups and downs and even plastic mold-making technology has developed but now [...]
A Vietnamese folk verse tells us: Three young girls carry baskets of rice on their [...]
The wind blows in from all directions, Arriving to flood my soul, The “The Blue [...]
Visit Van Phuc Village in Ha Dong Town (Ha Tay Province) for a taste of [...]
The “modern” tunic came in during the 1930s, although Vietnamese women in the countryside still [...]
Ao tu than (Four-part dress in English) is the traditional dress of women in Northern [...]
The most popular and recognized national dress of Vietnam, the Ao dai is a symbol [...]
The dragon in Western myth and folklore is often a monster and a symbol of [...]
Twenty years ago, Dam Thi Ngoc Tho, then principal of Ho Thi Ky High School, [...]
Among the factors differentiating the world’s peoples are language, housing, and dress. According to Vietnamese [...]
This might be a good summary: “Beautiful, but not for every woman and every occasion.” [...]
Below is a personal experience by writer Ngoc Hien: I was at a Vietnamese wedding [...]
In 2001, for the first time, models presented the Vietnamese women’s .ao dai – a [...]
Women wore the traditional Vietnamese tunic when they were not working in the fields. Urban [...]
Traditional Confucian culture extolled community and family. Women were not considered as individuals but only [...]
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