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Lạc bird. Lạc bird ( Vietnamese: chim Lạc, Lạc điểu, Chinese: 雒鳥) [1] is a mythical creature in Vietnamese culture and a national bird of Vietnam. [2] [3] [4]
Tam quan. Chữ Hán. 三關. A typical Tam quan of folk architecture. Tam quan of Thượng Temple (built in the style of Láng Temple) A Tam quan ( chữ Hán: 三關) or Tam môn ( chữ Hán: 三門) is a style of traditional gateway symbolic of Vietnamese Buddhism. It has three aisles (traditionally, the middle aisle is the largest and the ...
In the United States, Vietnamese is the sixth most spoken language, with over 1.5 million speakers, who are concentrated in a handful of states. It is the third-most spoken language in Texas and Washington; fourth-most in Georgia, Louisiana, and Virginia; and fifth-most in Arkansas and California. [42]
Hồng Lĩnh ( Chữ Hán: 鴻嶺) is a mountain range in Hà Tĩnh Province, Vietnam. Hồng Lĩnh is the tên chữ Sino-Vietnamese name (literally "red mountain range"); the demotic tên nôm folk name is Rú Hống. [1] [2] The mountains famously have 99 peaks. Nguyễn Huệ built the Trung Đô Citadel on Hồng Lĩnh mountain. [3] [4] [5 ...
Tam thiên tự ( chữ Hán: 三千字; literally 'three thousand characters') is a Vietnamese text that was used in the past to teach young children Chinese characters ( chữ Hán) and chữ Nôm. [1] [2] It was written around the 19th century. [3] The original title of the text was originally Tự học toản yếu ( chữ Hán ...
Chữ Nôm is the logographic writing system of the Vietnamese language. It is based on the Chinese writing system but adds a large number of new characters to make it fit the Vietnamese language. Common historical terms for chữ Nôm were Quốc Âm ( 國音, 'national sound') and Quốc ngữ ( 國語, 'national language').
A trống cơm, literally "rice drum", is a kind of traditional barrel-shaped Vietnamese drum, similar to the Chinese yaogu, and the Khmer skor sang na. It is used in the hát bội orchestra. Hát chèo also uses the drum in its repertoire. [1] [2] Trống cơm is a long cylindrical drum with percussional surfaces at both ends.
Tết (Vietnamese:), short for Tết Nguyên Đán (lit. ' Festival of the first day '), is the most important celebration in Vietnamese culture.Tết celebrates the arrival of spring based on the Vietnamese calendar and usually has the date in January or February in the Gregorian calendar.