Lifestyle

1,000-year-old ploughing festival restored
01/02/2009 05:00
The Tich Dien Doi Son Festival (King’s Ploughing Festival), which was initiated more than 1,000 years ago to promote agriculture, has been restored in northern Ha Nam province. Lookatvietnam - The Tich Dien Doi Son Festival (King’s Ploughing Festival),...
Buying luck at Vieng Market
01/02/2009 05:00
Lookatvietnam – As usual, from 10pm on the seventh day of the first lunar month, Vieng market in Nam Dinh is busy with visitors, who believe it will bring them luck throughout the year. A stall selling imitation bronze antiques....
Casting bronze drum in Thang Long ancient citadel
01/02/2009 05:00
Craftsmen from the Dong Son bronze casting village this morning started casting a Dong Son bronze drum in front of Kinh Thien palace inside the Thang Long ancient citadel. The starting ceremony. Artisans melting bronze....
Buddhist architecture tainted
01/02/2009 05:00
Lookatvietnam – Hue city Buddhism has its roots in a remote past, far back to the Tran dynasty of the 14th century, or possibly even earlier. Age-old traditions and culture that have been nurtured during such a long period have yielded a distinct architectural style...
Festivals brings color to the Year of the Ox
01/02/2009 05:00
The beginning of the Year of the Ox welcomed various cultural festivals, which remind people the spiritual values and history. Drummers perform their music to inspire the game ‘choi trau’ (buffalo fighting) in the festival Tich Dien Doi Son (Photo: VOV)...
The buffalo in Vietnamese culture
31/01/2009 05:00
As lunar New Year 2009 is the Year of the Buffalo, it will not be inappropriate to sit back and consider how much this zodiacal animal has pervaded the Vietnamese ethos and influenced language and expression. A Dong Ho painting. Lookatvietnam - As...
Museum puts on grand show of traditional performances
31/01/2009 05:00
Lookatvietnam - Parents flocked with their children to the Vietnam Museum of Ethnology in Ha Noi to watch traditional entertainment shows as the museum reopened January 29 after Tet. ’Mua sap,’ or Thai ethnic minority bamboo dancing, being performed as the...