Leaf painting is the process of painting with dyed leaves. Deriving from Japan, China or India, it became popular in Vietnam. Its two main forms are: Cutting and pasting dry leaf to make leaf paintings or using paint to draw onto the surface of dry leaf to make leaf paintings.
Every product is unique, quite different from the others because of the leaves' veins, the forms, and the colors before or after dying.
The đàn tranh or đàn thập lục is a plucked zither of Vietnam, based to the Chinese guzheng. The same root is also Japanese koto, the Korean gayageum and ajaeng, the Mongolian yatga, the Sundanese kacapi and the Kazakh jetigen. It has a long soundbox with the steel strings, movable bridges and tuning pegs positioned on its top.
Traditional Vietnamese musical instruments are the musical instruments used in the traditional and classical musics of Vietnam. They comprise a wide range of string, wind, and percussion instruments, used by both the Viet majority as well as the nation's ethnic minorities.
Ðông Hồ painting, full name Đông Hồ folk woodcut painting is a line of Vietnamese folk painting originating in Đông Hồ village.
In Vietnamese, the term bánh translates loosely as "cake" or "bread", but refers to a wide variety of prepared foods that can easily be eaten by hands or chopsticks. With the addition of qualifying adjectives, bánh refers to a wide variety of sweet or savoury, distinct cakes, buns, pastries, sandwiches, and other food items, which may be cooked by steaming, baking, frying, deep-frying, or boiling. Foods made from wheat flour or rice flour are generally called bánh, but the term may also refer to certain varieties of noodle and fish cake dishes, such as bánh canh and bánh hỏi.
Vietnamese poetry originated in the form of folk poetry and proverbs. Vietnamese poetic structures include six-eight, double-seven six-eight, and various styles shared with Classical Chinese poetry forms, such as are found in Tang poetry; examples include verse forms with "seven syllables each line for eight lines," "seven syllables each line for four lines", and "five syllables each line for eight lines." More recently there have been new poetry and free poetry.
Hanoi Ceramic Mosaic Mural, or Hanoi Ceramic Road, is a ceramic mosaic mural along the walls of the Red River dike system in the city of Hanoi, northern Vietnam.
Vietnam's Next Top Model is a Vietnamese reality television show in which contestants compete for the title of "Vietnam's Next Top Model." Contestants are given the opportunity to begin a career in the modeling industry, and the winner receives a cash prize and a feature article in a fashion magazine.
Tiếng gọi thanh niên and originally the March of the Students is a famous song of the musician Lưu Hữu Phước.
The Vietnamese animation began in 1959 when the Vietnam Animation Studio was formed by a group of young animators who were educated in the historical Soviet Union. Comics were normally referred to as truyện tranh, or the older name Mạn họa. Animation was referred to as hoạt hình.
Hợp ca tranh tài is a Vietnamese reality talent contest that will make its debut on VTV3 in Vietnam on February 24, 2012. There are about twelve episodes scheduled to air.
Four Palaces is a major denomination of the Mother Goddess religion, an indigenous polytheistic religion in Vietnam. This branch is popular in the North of Vietnam and has a profound association with the worship of Đức Thánh Trần.
Đào Sĩ Chu (1909-1974) was a Vietnamese painter who studied in France and was known for following the traditional style of the EBAI school. He was also an organizer of art exhibitions and writer on the history of art.
The Arbitrator is a 2017 Vietnamese crime drama series, based on the Israel crime drama series The Arbitrator (Ha-Borer).
Truyện tranh means comic in Vietnamese. This term has the English name Viet comics created by Floral Age Bimonthly magazine in the 1960s to refer to comics originating in Vietnam. It is sometimes called by the older name Mạn họa. In Vietnamese sometimes it will be called by longer names such as: "Truyện tranh Việt Nam", "truyện tranh Việt", "truyện tranh nội", "truyện tranh ta", "truyện tranh trong nước",... to distinguish it from other types of foreign comics such as: "Truyện tranh Âu Mỹ", "truyện tranh Nhật Bản" (Manga),...
The Vietnamese television mystery music game show Hidden Voices premiered the fourth season on HTV7 on 27 July 2019.
Vỡ Xương, also known as Vô Hữu Xương, is a Vietnamese war artist whose career documented the Second Indochina War. He joined the People's Army of Vietnam in 1964.
The abdication of Emperor Bảo Đại took place on 25 August 1945 and marked the end of the 143-year reign of the Nguyễn dynasty over Vietnam ending the Vietnamese monarchy. Bảo Đại abdicated in response to the August Revolution. A ceremony was held handing power over to the newly established Democratic Republic of Vietnam, which was established during the end of World War II in Asia as Vietnam had been occupied by French and later Japanese imperialists.
Little Sister Thuy, often referred as Little Thuy, is an oil painting created by painter Trần Văn Cẩn in 1943. Depicting the artist's 8-year-old niece, the painting is considered one of Tran Van Can's finest works as well as one of the typical portraits of 20th-century Vietnam. The painting has been recognized as a 'National Treasure' by the Socialist Republic of Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyễn Tấn Dũng in 2013.
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