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The Gong Zither
21/05/2012 03:45
The special instrument often accompanies its player to the field, to festivals held at the communal long-house, or to a meeting place where the player reveals his feelings to his lover. The Gong Zither The body of the gong zither is made of a hollow bamboo pipe which is closed by its...
A unique musical instrument in the Central Highlands, Cong Chieng
21/05/2012 04:48
The Cong Chieng is a kind of musical instrument casted from mixed copper and belongs to the idiophonic family. In Vietnamese language, the word "Cong" points to a musical instrument with a bossed part in center (bossed gong) and "Chieng" without it (flat gong). Cong Chieng- Central...
Confucianism In Vietnam
14/05/2012 09:50
Confucianism was introduced into Vietnam early during the Chinese rule and has maintained its influence since that time. In 1072, there was a temple dedicated to Confucius and his leading 72 disciples. Located in Hanoi, this temple was called the Temple of Literature . If one of you has ever...
Ca Tru Singing
13/05/2012 02:50
Traveling to Vietnam , you will have a chance to enjoy Ca Tru performance and experience the Vietnamese traditional music and instruments . Ca tru music sounds strange to the uninitiated. Clicks and clacks accompany the centuries old ballads. It is not the kind of music that inspires toe...
Nourishing the soul of the baby with lullabies
09/05/2012 08:49
Lullaby songs are a sort of folk music often heard in Vietnam, especially in the countryside. They are used not only to lull small children to go to sleep but also to express human feelings such as homesickness, wife missing her husband... Vietnamese lullabies often consist of two or four...
Buddhism - The first largest religion in Vietnam
09/05/2012 02:10
Buddhism spread first from China to Vietnam 's Red River Delta region in approximately the second century A.D., and then from India to the southern Mekong Delta area at some time between the third and the sixth centuries. The Chinese version, Mahayana Buddhism, became the faith of most...
H’Mong Pen Pipe
09/05/2012 01:48
The Pen-pipe is a musical instrument of the wind family with the free vibrated reed, popular among almost all of Vietnam's ethnicity in different forms. The Kinh (Viet) group calls it Khen, while the Mong ethnic people call it the Kenh, and the Ede in the Central Highlands use a similar...