Dzung Trinh
Dzung Trinh

Things You Should Know About Vietnamese Culture

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History

If the population counted since the presence of humans, Vietnam would have been tens of thousands of years BC, and since it formed the state structure, it has been around 700 BC.

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Archaeologists have found relics proving that humans had lived in Vietnam since the Paleolithic era of the cultures of Trang An, Nguom, Son Vi, and Soi Nhu. In the Neolithic period, the Hoa Binh – Bac Son culture in this region developed in livestock and agriculture, especially wet rice cultivation techniques.

Vietnam has more than 4000 years of history of establishment and development.

Vietnam has more than 4000 years of establishment and development.

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The prehistoric Vietnamese people on the Red River Delta – The civilization of the Red and Ma rivers reclaimed land to cultivate, created a system of dykes to tame floods of rivers, dig canals for rice cultivation, and created wet rice civilization and village culture.

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Legend has it that since 2879 BC, the Xich Dem state of the Vietnamese was formed, at the same time as the legend of the Three Emperor Ngu De in China. However, this is just a folk legend; archaeological studies have not found evidence that this state ever existed.

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Around the 8th century BC, the Iron Age appeared as the first Vietnamese state in today’s North Vietnam. According to history books, it was the Van Lang State of the Hung Kings. The period of King Hung was recognized by many as the first organized country of the Vietnamese, starting with the legend of the Dragon and the Fairy, which the Vietnamese proudly passed down orally from generation to generation.

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Vietnamese history is fascinating and exciting.

Vietnamese history is fascinating and exciting.

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Vietnam spent more than a thousand years under China’s rule. Only in 938 AD did Vietnamese history enter a period of development and decline of dynasties: Dinh, Le, Ly, Tran, Ho, Le So, Mac, Hau Le, Tay Son, Nguyen.

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From the 19th century, Vietnam’s history witnessed the French colonial invasions, which lasted until the first half of the 20th century. Heavily affected by the Second World War, Vietnam was the country that suffered. Severe consequences and becoming a colony of French colonialism.

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After that, the US jumped into the French position in the Vietnam War. The war for independence of Vietnam continued to last until 1975 completely ended. the Democratic Republic of Vietnam was born after independence in 1945. After the battle of liberation of the South, Vietnam officially unified the North and South.

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Vietnamese people have lose face like President Ho Chi Minh or Tran Hung Dao.

Population

According to the latest data from the United Nations, Vietnam’s current population was 98,034,849 as of May 3, 2021. Vietnam’s people are currently accounting for 1.25% of the world population. Vietnam is ranked 15th in the world in the rankings of countries and territories. The population density of Vietnam is 316 people / km2.

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With a total land area of 310,060 km2. 37.34% of the population lives in urban areas (36,346,227 people in 2019). The median age in Vietnam is 32.9 years old.

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Vietnam has 54 different ethnics groups.

Vietnam has 54 different ethnics groups.

Ethnic groups

Vietnam has 54 ethnic groups, of which the Kinh account for nearly 86%, concentrated in deltas and coastal plains. Ethnic minorities, except the Hoa Kieu, the Cham, and the Khmer, are focused mainly in the mountainous and highland areas. Among these, the most populous are the Tay, Thai, Muong and the O Du people.

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There are ethnic groups that have migrated to Vietnam for the past few hundred years, like the Hoa Kieu. The Hoa Kieu and the Ngai are the only two ethnic groups whose population decreased in 1999 – 2009.

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Viet Nam’s population is diverse with different traditions and customs. Viet Nam's population is diverse with different traditions and customs.

Religion

According to a survey by the General Statistics Office, the most populous region in Vietnam is the Red River Delta, with about 22.5 million people. About 20.1 million people follow the North Central and Souths Central Coast, 3rd is the Southeast with 17.8 million people, the 4th is the Mekong River Delta with about 17.2 million people.

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According to the IPS 2019, 34.4% of the Vietnamese population live in urban areas, and 65.6% live in rural areas.

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In terms of the average sex ratio in 2019, it is 99.1 males / 100 females. According to The Economist, the decline of the population due to declining fertility creates the prospect of aging in Vietnam. The proportion of elders over 60 years old is expected to increase from 12% (2018) to 21% ( 2040).

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Vietnam’s working population peak is in 2013, after which it will decrease. The young/old ratio is financially volatile to provide health and support services when 90% of seniors have no savings when the state budget only subsidizes people over 80 years old with an average of several USD / week.

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Vietnam is located in Southeast Asia.

Vietnam is located in Southeast Asia.

Geographical location

Vietnam is a country located on the Indochinese peninsula, Southeast Asia, along the Pacific coast. Vietnam has 4,550 km of land bordering China in the north, Laos, and Cambodia in the West, with the East sea bordering the east.

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On the map, the land strip of Vietnam is shaped like an S, stretching from latitude 23o23′ north to 8o27′ north, 1,650 km long in the north-south direction, the widest part of mainland about 500 km; and the narrowest place nearly 50 km.

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The average temperature in Vietnam ranges from 21oC to 27oC and increases gradually from North to South. In summer, the average temperature across the country is 25oC (23oC in Ha Noi, 25oC in Hue, and 26oC in Ho Chi Minh City). Winter in the North, the lowest temperature in December and January. In the northern mountainous areas, such as Sa Pa, Tam Dao, Hoang Lien Son, the temperature drops to 0 ° C with snow.

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Vietnamese geography consists of many different terrain types.

Vietnamese geography consists of many different terrain types.

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Vietnam has a vast amount of solar radiation, with sunny hours ranging from 1,400-3,000 hours/year. The average annual rainfall ranges from 1,500 to 2,000 mm. The air humidity is above 80%. Due to the influence of monsoons and the complexity of the topography, Vietnam often experiences disadvantages in weather such as storms, floods, and droughts.

Hanoi

Ha Noi is located on the left bank of the Da River and in the Red River Delta. It borders Vinh Phuc and Thai Nguyen provinces in the north, Hoa Binh province to the Southerns areas, Bac Ninh and Hung Yen to the east, and Vinh Phuc to the West.

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After being expanded, Ha Noi is in the top 17 capitals with the largest area in the world with 3,324.92 km2. With this favorable geographical location, this city readily becomes a significant economic, political, cultural, and scientific center, including 12 districts, one town, and 17 districts.

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Due to the humid monsoon tropical climate, traveling to Ha Noi, you can enjoy all four seasons of the year. Each season has its characteristics, giving you different feelings about lifestyle, scenery, and people here. Ha Noi is cold in the winter; it is also scalding in the hot summer, but not because it loses its beauty. But perhaps, especially the spring, in the autumn of Hanoi.

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Hanoi is the capital of Vietnam

Ha Noi is the capital of Vietnam.

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Since the time Hanoi was Thang Long Citadel, it has always been the largest cultural center of the country. This land has given birth to folklore with many legends, many verses, sayings, folk festivals and praised heroes, tangible and non-physical cultural relics—recognized objects.

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One thing when introducing Hanoi – a Hanoi is extraordinary when it comes to many different cultures, and nowhere to many cultural villages like this place. Along with that are villages with Buddhist architecture, folklore, French architecture scattered all over the place, giving visitors the pleasure of staying in a busy, developed city like Hanoi still finds cultural values thousands of years earlier.

Ho Chi Minh City

With ​​more than 2,095 km2, the city is divided into 19 districts and five districts with 322 wards – communes and towns. The distance from the city center to the sea is 50 km by way of flying birds and nearly 1,730km from Hanoi by road. The average altitude is 6m higher than sea level. The topographic surface is high in the North-East region and low in the South-Southwest region.

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Ho Chi Minh City has a dense network of rivers and canals spanning more than 2,900 hectares, making it convenient for irrigation and transportation. Located in the subtropical monsoon tropics, Ho Chi Minh City has two distinct seasons, the rainy season and the dry season.

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Ho Chi Minh is an economically developed city located in the South.

Ho Chi Minh is an economically developed city located in the South.

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The rainy season takes place from May to November with an average annual rainfall of 1,979 mm and the dry season from December to April of the following year with an average yearly temperature of 27,550C.

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Ho Chi Minh City is an economical, commercial, financial, and service center of the country and the nucleus of the southern key economic region in development and integration.

Languages

Vietnam’s national language is Vietnamese, belonging to the South Asian family. Currently, the Constitution does not regulate the national script. It used works of literature with China’s characters in administrative documents before the 20th century.

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Truyen Kieu – a Nom poet, based on China’s material to record Vietnamese was formed from the 7th to the 13th century.) composed by Nguyen Du and written in Nôm.

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The Vietnamese script, a script that uses Latin characters to write Vietnamese, was developed in the 17th century by Jesuit missionaries Francisco de Pina and Alexandre de Rhodes based on the alphabets of the Roman group. Vietnamese disseminated it through the protection regulations of the colonial politicians and the Vietnamese movements during the French colonial period.

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The main language is "Vietnamese."

The main language is “Vietnamese.”

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Ethnic minority groups in Vietnam speak several languages ​​, such as Tay, Nung, Muong, H’Mong, Cham, and Khmer. The languages in Vietnam include Southerns Asia, Kra-Dai, Chinese-Tibeto, H’Mong-South, and Southern Islands. Several Vietnamese sign languages ​​were also formed in big cities.

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French is a legacy of colonialism. Vietnam remains a part of the Francophone Community, but French has weakened rapidly and has made room for English as the primary foreign language.

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English can be used as a second language with relations with Western countries changing and reforms in economic and educational governance. Learning English is now required in most countries as an adjacent or alternative school for French.

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Russian, German, Czech, and Polish are known to have been known to some northerners with connections to the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans are also more popular as the relationship between Vietnam and East Asian countries are strengthened.

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Government

Vietnam follows a socialist system with a single political party, the Communist Party of Vietnam. In 2016, the proportion of part who were Party members in the National Assembly was 95.8%, the heads of governments, ministries, and the National Assembly and judicial bodies were Party members and led by the Executive Committee. Central or Politburo nomination.

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The Communist Party of Vietnam is headed by the General Secretary, the de facto leader and the highest leader of Vietnam. Being the only Party to rule on the Vietnamese political scene, Lenin’s principles “centralized democracy” and not allowing multi-party.

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According to the Constitution, the Nation Assembly’snational 5-year term, headed by the President of the Nation Assembly, is the highest representative body of the people. Only the Nation Assembly has constitutional and legislative powers to oversee and decide on basic policies, principles of the State apparatus, and civil society relations. The Nation Assembly is not independent and complies with the majority of regulations from the Party, but after Doi Moi, the Nation Assembly’s role is pushed higher.

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Vietnam is a socialist country.

Vietnam is a socialist country.

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The State President is the head of state, has rights which: To announce the Constitution, laws, and ordinances; The Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces; propose to the Nation Assembly to elect and dismiss the Prime Minister, the Supreme Chief Justice, the Supreme Procuracy, on behalf of the state internally and externally.

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It is the executive body of the Nation Assembly, the highest administrative body, comprising the Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Ministers, Ministers, and Heads of ministerial agencies. The Politburo manages the organization of government personnel.

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The Supreme People’s Court is the judicial body, and the Supreme People’s Procuracy is the highest authority to prosecute and administer judicial activities in Vietnam. In addition, the Military Court has a unique power in matters of security.

Traditional dress

Ao Dai

The ao dai is a beautiful symbol of the nation’s culture and the pride of our Vietnamese people.

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Ao Dai was born a long time ago; it has undergone many modifications to achieve today’s aesthetics. The primitive style is a gentle dress, which the woman wears over a peach overall, a black silk skirt, and a loose belt.

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But for the sake of business, the farming work, the good clothes are reduced to a four-body shirt. After that, it is turned into a five-piece robe for the ladies to wear during the Spring Festival.

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Ao Dai is the unique costume of Vietnamese women.

Ao Dai is the unique costume of Vietnamese women.

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By Lord Nguyen of Dang Trong, Vu Vuong Nguyen Phuc Khoat issued a decree about the dress; the ao dai had a short-sleeved standing collar, cut the sleeves wide or narrow, the sides of the armpits were sewn up and stitched tightly. Since then, ao dai has been improved in many ways, becoming more and more beautiful and sleek.

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Ao dai is sewn with many materials such as brocade, velvet, and silk. Currently, clothing designers have created many modern styles of ao dai, but with buttons. The cuffs are beads, pearls, and buttons. Long sleeves do not have a shoulder, sewn together with the collar like a baa split flap. This feature makes the living of a woman’s breasts easy, and at the same time, creates an elegant, graceful, and graceful pose.

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The ao dai has two main flaps: the front and the back. That is the part most stylized by fashion designers. Sometimes, the chiffon fabric is used, sometimes it is beaded, and the pearl shines. Ao dai is often paired with loose pants. Vietnamese women usually wear long-cut ao dai with white baggy pants because it creates an elegant and elegant look.

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Currently, ao dai has many different patterns, bearing a solid identity. Maybe flowers such as roses, orchids, lily buds. Maybe narcissus. It is also possible that there are many kinds of colorful flowers, evoking the graceful, elegant, and noble designs of young girls and young women.

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The ao dai is sewn with silk material and celebrates the beauty of the woman.

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The ao dai is forever the pride and pride of each of us Vietnamese. The beauty of the ao dai evokes the traditional beauty of the country and the people of Vietnam.

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On the way of integration, the clothes of each Vietnamese person can become rich, diversified, and modern. Still, the contemporary ao dai will forever stick with the Vietnamese woman’s soul, embellish the beautiful and graceful beauty of the girls, and young women in the festival.

Non-La

Non la has become a symbol of the land of many traditions. And also, for a long time, Non-La has become a symbol for Vietnamese women. The image of a Vietnamese woman with a gentle conical hat and delicate ao dai has entered poetry and music for many generations.

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Non la is an item to shade the sun, shade the rain, make a fan, conceal the face, smile, or add charm to Vietnamese women.

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Non-La is a beautiful image when coming to Vietnam.

Non-La is a beautiful image when coming to Vietnam.

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The material for the hat is palm leaves, silk thread, hook, and bamboo for the frame. The conical hat has a simple structure but also requires the ingenuity of the craftsman. The cone has a uniform pyramid shape, the wall surrounded by a ring curled into layers.

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The hat’s brim is made of bamboo, rounded like a frame to support the graceful hat shape. There is a curved rim at the base of the cone, more vigorous than the ones above. Hard or brittle cones will determine the toughness and durability of the cone.

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But an essential part of the hat is the two layers of palm leaves – the primary raw material for the cone. Palm leaves must be young leaves, entirely dried. Lined between two layers of palm leaves is a trench layer as the core, dried, taken with bamboo. All the materials that make up the hat must be waterproof, easy to splash with water to withstand the pouring rain, hot days.

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A soft silk strap is added to attach two cradles attached to the inside of the hat to increase the charm. The conical hat is woven with beautiful, durable silk threads. People can also decorate bold ethnic patterns inside the cap or paint a varnish on the outside.

Worship customs

Vietnam is a country with many religions and beliefs. Most Vietnamese people do not belong to any religious organizations but, at the same time, practice folk beliefs. Buddhisms introduced with Confucianism and Taoism (collectively referred to as three religions) influenced Vietnamese culture.

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Vietnamese Buddhisms Northerns is predominantly Mahayana and held the status of the state religion in the Ly and Tran dynasties. Confucianism gained a unique position under the Le prim and Nguyen dynasties. Some Confucian ideas up to now still play a certain role in the Vietnamese social order.

Vietnam has a belief in god worship.

Vietnam has a belief in god worship.

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The foundation of Vietnamese Catholicism, introduced in the 16th century, was firmly established in the 17th century by Portuguese and Italian Jesuit missionaries.

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The Gospel was appeared in Vietnam from the beginning of the 20th century by the Union for the Evangelization of the Union. Hinduism and later Islam spread to Champa. Besides world religions, Vietnam also has some endogenous beliefs such as Cao Dai and Hoa Hao.

Ancestor worship

Almost every Vietnamese family has an altar to their ancestors. Whether the altar is large or small depends on the conditions and circumstances of each family. Each altar, however, must contain at least a photograph of the deceased, incense burner, and incense stick. That is considered the most fundamental expression of an individual or a family according to ancestral beliefs.

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Worshiping ancestors is a fundamental belief in the Vietnamese spiritual life. Many opinions and views are surrounding the origin of this belief; some people think that this is a belief originating from the Han people of China.

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To worship ancestors is a beauty of the Vietnamese people.

To worship ancestors is a beauty of the Vietnamese people.

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Another opinion is that this belief is an endogenous problem of the ancient Vietnamese community. Although there are many different opinions about the origin, above all, we understand that ancestor worship is a practice that has been preserved and inherited from many generations now.

Buddhism

Vietnamese Buddhism is localized when imported to Vietnam; Vietnamese Buddhism has similarities and differences with Buddhism in other countries. Vietnam was located in the area of ​​influence of ancient Chinese culture, especially religion.

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Buddhism is the most influential religion in Vietnam, with many influences from the Northern Buddhism sect. However, in the South, the Southern Buddhism sect also has a significant impact, especially in the Khmer community in the South.

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Buddhism is prevalent in this country.

Buddhism is prevalent in this country.

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According to the Vietnam Government Committee for Religious Affairs statistics, in 2020, there are more than 4,600,000 Buddhists, and according to statistics of the Vietnam Buddhist Church, there are nearly 45 million followers nationwide. There are 1002 Buddhist family units and about 44,498 monks and nuns, more than 14,775 monks and nuns, nuns, nuns, monasteries, and reciting Buddhist temples.

Vietnamese Cuisine & Food

The country of Vietnam is an agricultural country belonging to a hot, tropical monsoon region. Moreover, our territory is divided into three distinct areas: North, Central, and South, along with 54 ethnic groups.

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It is geographical and climatic characteristics that define the specific aspects of the cuisine of each region or region. Every part has a typical taste.

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That contributes to making Vietnam’s cuisine diverse and rich. That is an eating culture that uses many vegetables (boiled, fried, made melon, eaten raw); The noodle soups are abundant, especially the sour soup, while the number of nutritious animal foods is often less. They commonly used kinds of meat (e.g., pork, beef, chicken, goose, duck, shrimps, fish, crabs, snails, mussels, clams).

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Today, with the introduction of cultures from the West and countries such as Japan, Korea, Thailand, and many Vietnamese cuisines retain their inherent quintessence and creativity, transforming into novel and attractive flavors and emphasizing eye-catching food interpretation.

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Vietnam has a diverse and rich cuisine.

Vietnam has a diverse and rich cuisine.

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With a humid subtropical climate, with four distinct seasons: Spring, Autumn, and Winter, the taste of Northerns cuisine becomes salty, rich, often not as spicy, fatty, or sweet as other regions. Mainly use thin fish sauces, shrimp paste, ketchup, hot vinegar.

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Favorable with vegetables and other easy-to-find freshwater aquatic products such as shrimp, crab, fish, clams, and general. Due to the ancient tradition of poor agriculture, the cuisine in the Northerns used to be less popular with the main ingredients of meat and fish.

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The central region has a sunny and windy climate, so Central cuisine has more intense flavors, more spicy and savory dishes than northern and southern foods; the colors are mixed richly, vibrant in favor of color—red and dark brown.

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Another reason, with the soil not having many products, but royal cuisine requires many dishes, so each ingredient is processed in a variety of different dishes.

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Southern palate often likes the sweet and sour taste. Chinese, Cambodian, and Thai cuisine often add sugar and often use coconut milk (coconut milk and juice).

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Specialties are usually dried fish sauces and more seafood than Northern cuisine. But the most prominent is the rustic dishes, typical of a period of expansion: the hamster, the coconut water, the steamed crow bats, the ground cobra cook the green bean porridge, the coconut weevils, the weevils or the weevils, grilled snakehead fish, crested snakehead fish.

Rice

Rice is a type of food made from “hat gao” by cooking with just the right amount of water for cooking. Rice (white), usually consisting of non-glutinous rice / sticky and without added spices, is an almost daily staple food of Southeast Asians and East Asians.

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Rice (white) is also an ingredient for various processed dishes. To change the taste, after cooking, we can use rice to fry with chopped dishes such as sausages, fried eggs to make fried rice.

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Daily family meals in Vietnam

Daily family meals in Vietnam

Fish sauce

It is the “nation-soul and essence” dish of the Vietnamese people, making Vietnamese cuisine differentiated from the rest of world cuisine. Perhaps that is why the “followers of fish sauces” of Vietnamese origin have loudly affirmed that “fish sauce is the ‘unique’ product of the Vietnamese”!

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It is a spice but also a food with high nutritional value. It is indispensable in the daily meals of Vietnamese people. Fish sauces made from fish and salt are widely used in Vietnam and popular in many other countries around the world.

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Have you tried fish sauce yet?

Have you tried fish sauce yet?

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Noodles (Pho/Bun)

Pho is a traditional Vietnamese dish and can also be considered one of the most typical dishes for Vietnamese cuisine. Pho’s main ingredients are rice noodles and broth (or broth as the Southern way of calling), thin-sliced ​​beef or chicken, and any spices such as soy sauce, pepper, and lemon chili.

They eat Pho often as breakfast or dinner. These spices are added due to the taste of each person. In the South of Vietnam, Pho is displayed with additional ingredients called herbs such as onions, bean sprouts, and fragrant leaves, basil. Cilantro is the typical leaf of Pho. Pho is usually beef noodle soup, chicken noodle soup, pork noodle soup, shrimp noodle soup.

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Noodle soup is generally made by stewing beef bones; the meat used for Pho is beef or chicken, and spices including cinnamon, anise, ginger, cardamom, cloves, coriander seeds.

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Italy has spaghetti, Vietnam has Pho.

Italy has spaghetti, Vietnam has Pho.

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Vietnamese noodle shops still keep the habit of rarely bringing menus to customers, but customers will have to choose what kind of Pho (e.g., beef noodle soup, chicken noodle soup). Pho is stored in a bowl. Usually, the tables are numbered to serve, on which there are chopsticks, spoons, and spices accompanied by Pho such as soy sauce, lemon, chili.

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Like Pho, Bun Vietnam is also very diverse from Bun Bo Hue, Bun Rieu, Bun Thang. Each type of vermicelli has its flavor, a specific characteristic of the region.

Family traditions in the culture of Vietnam

Vietnamese culture is not abstract and general but is expressed in vivid detail in the lifestyle, activities, thoughts, and feelings of every member of it. That is the order of the clan. Its good tradition is often referred to by folk as having a lifestyle.

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Vietnamese traditions are heavily influenced and produced by Eastern culture; Which is directly from the doctrine, religion: Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, but Confucianism.

Generations living

Up to now, in general, Vietnamese families, with their traditions, organization, and regulations of order, respect, and loving-kindness lifestyle, have helped keep the family stable in four generations. This system also prescribes, not in writing, laws, but by heart, the roles, and obligations of the husband, wife, and children, to the family members.

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In general, when entering life, people understand that they no longer take care of themselves, but for “that person.” Everything belongs to each other and never thought of a way to prevent uncertainty, separation, or divorce. Everyone in the home strives to cultivate according to their position and position.

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Vietnamese people live together for generations.

Vietnamese people live together for generations.

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Parents do not give birth to support their old age, although filial piety is strictly bound. Parents forever do things for themselves and their children. Parents are always awake so that when they can no longer work, they will have food to give to their children and grandchildren.

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On the contrary, children and grandchildren do not, because of that, but appear defiant, bold, but endeavor to preserve and nurture the legacy of their fathers. Children are aware that their parents’ heritage and property are the scent of fire that needs to be maintained and developed.

Daily life

Vietnamese people are familiar with agricultural lives, living together, close to heaven and earth, nature, and things. The house of the Vietnamese families is nestled by a stream, riverbank, under a banyan tree, foliage, protected by green bamboo, golden rice fields, always looking for dependence on nature, heaven, and earth.

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Vietnamese people are always aware of their heads; in alleyways, rivers, mountains, and the ocean, divine forces dominate their well-being. This religious sentiment is deeply rooted in Vietnamese family culture.

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God-worshipping rituals are always reflected in families and villages. Belief in divine truth is the reason that God always urges people to live rightly, to do good and to gain merit, to do evil with retribution.

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Vietnamese people live together in a house.

Vietnamese people live together in a house.

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Literature and Arts

Vietnam has a diverse culture: from the Red River Delta and Thanh-Nghe region with village culture and wet rice civilization to the cultural nuances of the mountainous ethnics groups in the Northwest and Northeast to the Champa culture of the Cham people in the South Central Coast, the Central Highlands tribes, the same new land in the South combined with the cultures of the ethnics Hoa Kieu and Khmer.

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In terms of tradition, the mainstream culture of the Vietnamese is considered to be a cultural region of East Asia. With thousands of years, from indigenous Hong Bang culture to Chinese and Southeast Asian influences to 19th-century French influences, 20th century West and 21st-century globalization Vietnam has undergone cultural changes according to historical periods.

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Fifty-four ethnics groups have customs and festivals that mean community activities, beliefs, tolerance in religious thought, rigor, and metaphor in the languages of literatures and art.

Martial arts

The art scene started with the ancient sculpture shown on the Dong Son bronze drum of Lac Viet residents, through periods with external influences created the Vietnamese sculpture to flourish.

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The Ly, Tran, and Le dynasties through religious works and palaces of the dynasty. In addition to the Vietnamese architectural and sculptural works, the Vietnamese architectural sculpture is supplemented with sophisticated techniques in constructing religious works of the Cham and the Khmer in the South.

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Beauty in Vietnamese art

Beauty in Vietnamese art

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The painting appeared later with silk paintings, deity paintings, worship paintings, portraits, lacquer paintings, wood carvings, royal paintings, and Vietnamese folk paintings, including Tet paintings, Dong Ho paintings, Hang paintings.

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Folk paintings are often close and straightforward to the folklife; each picture has a symbolic meaning and is stylized in recent years. Along with other modern arts, Vietnamese contemporary art has also made great strides since the early 20th century with the influence of Western art under the French colonial period, with the romantic, realistic, and imprint schools. Abstract, surreal; although influenced by the West, Vietnam’s modern art tendencies are still associated with the country’s histories.

Literature

Like other countries in the world, Vietnamese pieces of literatures include two parts that are folk and written literature. Folklore is the oral beauty of the traditional culture of literatures, and written works include Chinese, Nom, and Quoc script.

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Vietnamese folklore treasures are vibrant and diverse to preserve the nation’s precious traditions and preserve the production experiences of Vietnamese generations when they are great. The number of people in feudal times who could not know Chinese characters, a form of oral folklore, was born and passed down from generation to generation in Vietnam.

Festivals

Like many other countries, Vietnam is a country with many folk festivals, a form of community activities. The religious rituals, customs, and community activities have been vividly recreated during the festival. The festival is held at different times of the year, depending on the traditions of each ethnic group, but the festival is still primarily concentrated in the spring.

Lunar New Year

Tet Nguyen Dan is the biggest festival in the traditional celebrations of Vietnam, is the intersection point between the old year and the new year, between a working cycle of heaven and earth, everything, plants.

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Tet Nguyen Dan is the biggest festival of the year.

Tet Nguyen Dan is the biggest festival of the year.

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The Vietnamese Lunar New Year has a profound humanistic meaning, expressing the longevity of life, the human desire for harmony between Heaven and Earth. The Lunar New Year is an expression of the relationship between man and nature in the spirit of agricultural culture. The clan and village in the ethnic community, with spiritual faith, greatness in spiritual life.

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Tet Nguyen Dan (also known as Lunar New Year, or: Tet) is the most important holiday in Vietnamese culture and some people. Ethnic Chinese influenced by others.

Mid-Autumn

Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the traditional festivals of Vietnam, recognized as “Children’s New Year.” Hence, on this occasion, people often see many lanterns, lanterns, drums, and masks are toys for children.

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Besides, Mid-Autumn Festival is also a reunion festival, a traditional culture of the Vietnamese people, because it gives me exciting origins and meanings. But perhaps not all of us know the mystical tale and the customs of the Mid-Autumn Festival; just know that the moon is the brightest, most full-bodied, and everyone gathered around the tray on this day.

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Mid-Autumn Festival takes place in the 8th lunar month of each year.

Mid-Autumn Festival takes place in the 8th lunar month of each year.

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Hung’s King Death Anniversary

Hung Temple Festival, also known as Hung Vuong’s death anniversary, is a great festival to commemorate and express gratitude for the nation-making merits of Hung Kings, the first kings of the nation.

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Hung Vuong’s death anniversary occurs on the 10th day of the third month of the lunar calendar every year at Hung Temple, Viet Tri, Phu Tho. Before that, every week, the festival took place with many folk culture activities and ended on March 10 of the lunar calendar with the procession and incense offering ceremony at Thuong Temple.

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Hung Vuong's death anniversary takes place in the third lunar month.

Hung Vuong’s death anniversary takes place in the third lunar month.

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Conclusions

The beauty of Vietnamese traditional culture goes back thousands of times. Our country has 54 different ethnic groups, each with its own unique and impressive culture and identity. In the article below, I will briefly introduce some of the beauty of the traditional culture of Vietnam through the customs, habits, and people here.

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Let’s come to Vietnam and explore!

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