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Vietnam Travel - The hiden charm

Vietnam Travel - The hiden charm

Vietnam is a beautiful country with friendly people and ancient culture.

Religion and Belief - The major religious traditions in Vietnam are Buddhism (which fuses forms of Taoism and Confusianism), Christianity (Catholicism and Protestantism), Islam, Caodaism and the Hoa Hao sect.

Worship of Ancestor Custom - A very popular belief among Vietnamese is the custom of the ancestor cult. In every household, an ancestor altar is installed in the most solemn location.

Villages Guilds - The Vietnamese culture has always evolved on the basis of the wet rice civilization. Thus, the lifestyle of the Vietnamese population is closely related to its village and native lands.

Customs of Chewing Betel and Areca Nuts and smoking thuoc lao - According to legends, chewing quid of betel and areca has been a custom since the Hung Vuong period and is connected to the antique legend of betel and areca.

Wedding Ceremony - Getting married is an important event in a Vietnamese's life. The procedure of the ancient wedding ceremony was very complicated. Current wedding ceremony procedures include the following steps: the search for a husband or wife, the proposal, the registration, and finally the wedding.

Funeral Ceremony - "The sense of the dead is that of the final," says a Vietnamese proverb, meaning that funeral ceremonies must be solemnly organized.

Language and Scripts - Among the 54 Vietnamese ethnic groups some have had their own scripts for a long time and some have not preserved their ancient scripts. As a matter of fact, some ethnic groups consisting of some hundreds of individuals living in remote areas have their own languages.

Modern Literature - Vietnamese literary tradition has evolved through the multiple events that have marked the country's history. New literary movements can usually be observed every ten years but in the last century, Vietnamese literature underwent several literary transitions.

Folk Literature - Since coming into existence, Vietnamese literature has been rich in folklore and proverbs; tales that have been handed down from generation to generation, gradually becoming valuable treasures.

Overview of traditional festivals - Festive activities are living museums in which typical cultural values of the nation have been preserved for centuries.

Festival rituals - Festivals require many compulsory rituals, which are carried out in a strict order from the preparation to the ending of a festival. In general, a festival has the following rituals:

Rice cooking competitions (thi thoi com) - During Tet, a number of villages in northern and central Vietnam hold cooking contests that may sound simple, but follow strict and complex rules: Cooking in the wind and rain. Tu Trong Village, Thanh Hoa Province has a temple dedicated to the 11th century warrior Le Phung Hieu.

Visiting Vietnam will bring you different experiences and wonderful.




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