Ha Long Bay
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Farmers in Ho Village in Bac Ninh Province north of Hanoi have a traditional secondary occupation: drawing pictures and printing them on the occasion of Tet. These brightly coloured pictures are drawn, engraved on wood, and printed with rudimentary
21/07/2014 15:30:00
Tay Nguyen (the Central Highlands) today comprises 4 provinces: Gia Lai, Kon Tum, Dac Lak and Lam Dong. Here live tribal peoples of Southern origin. There is a legend which says that their ancestors were drifted to this highland after the Deluge
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Potter refining a ceramic vessel using a potter's wheel. A brown-enameled jar with no enamel at the base. Ceramic products include simple artifacts such as a fired clay brick, an earthen jar for prickling vegetables
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The Ly dynasty moved its capital from Hoa Lu to Thang Long. It started the golden age of pagoda construction. Pagodas under this dynasty were most enormous. They were built by the government since Buddhism, thestate religion, was thriving.
21/07/2014 14:52:00
Here is a wood block; the characters and figures are intentionally engraved wrong side up on wood. Next is a page printed from this on paper with characters and figures now in their normal position.
21/07/2014 14:25:00
In more ancient times, on the drumheads of Dong Son bronze drums, we also see figures of large common houses with extremely curved roofs like those of communal houses (dinh lang).
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Scholars hold that it began when man knew how to make tools, at first in stone and later in bronze. The tiny statuettes (from 2cm to 20cm high) showed here used to be attached to objects for everyday use.
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Hundreds of years ago, it used to be the custom with the Vietnamese to hang Tet pictures on Lunar New Year holidays. "The nation's soul brightens on scallop paper". (Hoang Cam's poem).
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The lofty vault inside a Gothic Catholic cathedral often inspires a mystical sensation and evokes the presence of a supernatural power. It is just the reverse when we enter a Vietnamese "dinh" or village communal house.
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The Chinese excel in depicting life through novels, chronicles, historical books and pictures. Europeans are expert in precision measurement and detailed descriptions of things; they have a multitude of lifelike pictures and sculptures as real as photographs.