enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Vietnamese alphabet - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_alphabet

    Vietnamese uses 22 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet.The 4 remaining letters aren't considered part of the Vietnamese alphabet although they are used to write loanwords, languages of other ethnic groups in the country based on Vietnamese phonetics to differentiate the meanings or even Vietnamese dialects, for example: dz or z for southerner pronunciation of v in standard Vietnamese.

  3. Vietnamese poetry - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_poetry

    Vietnamese poetry originated in the form of folk poetry and proverbs. Vietnamese poetic structures include Lục bát, Song thất lục bát, 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" (a type of quatrain), and "five ...

  4. Cải lương - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cải_lương

    This term literally means "nostalgia for the past", it is a special type of singing with the background music often being the đàn tranh zither or the đàn ghi-ta (Vietnamized guitar). In a typical cải lương play, the actresses and actors would use a combination of regular spoken dialogue and vọng cổ to express their thoughts and ...

  5. Vietnamese folk religion - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_folk_religion

    Vietnamese temples are generically called miếu (meaning "temple") in Vietnamese language. In the northern regions, the miếu are temples hosting the "main worship" of a deity and usually located at secluded places, [ 37 ] while đình, đền, điện, đài or tịnh are temples for "emissary" or "secondary worship" located nearer or within ...

  6. Vietnamese people - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_people

    The Vietnamese people (Vietnamese: người Việt , lit. ' Việt people ' or ' Việt humans ') or the Kinh people (Vietnamese: người Kinh , lit. 'Metropolitan people'), also recognized as the Viet people [67] or the Viets, are a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to modern-day northern Vietnam and southern China who speak Vietnamese, the most widely spoken Austroasiatic language.

  7. Táng (surname) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Táng_(surname)

    People with this surname mainly have three originations: [6] From the clan name Tao-Tang (or Taotang, Tao Tang) . Tao-Tang was the clan name for Emperor Yao's tribe, so Yao is also known as Tang Yao (唐堯/唐尧) or Tang Fangxun (唐放勛/唐放勋) (Fangxun literally means great meritorious service or contribution).

  8. Da Tang Nü Xun An - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Tang_Nü_Xun_An

    Da Tang Nü Xun An is a Chinese television series about Xie Yaohuan (谢瑶环), a fictional Tang dynasty female detective-official who solves several mysterious cases during the reign of the empress Wu Zetian.

  9. Annan (Tang protectorate) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annan_(Tang_protectorate)

    In 845, a Tang official reported to the throne that "Annan has produced no more than eight imperial officials; senior graduates have not exceeded ten." Liêu Hữu Phương was the only recorded student from Annan to have passed the classical exams in 816 in the Tang capital of Chang'an. He succeeded on his second attempt and became a librarian ...