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Pixie cut. A pixie cut is a short hairstyle, generally short on the back and sides of the head and slightly longer on the top, with very short bangs. It is a variant of a crop. The name is derived from the mythological pixie. [citation needed]
A buzz cut, or wiffle cut, whereby the hair is very short and typically cut with manual hair clippers. Caesar cut: The Caesar cut is a men's hairstyle that is cut to a regular fade with the bangs or fringe left longer than the top length. Chonmage: A variation on the traditional topknot and tonsure of samurai in Feudal Japan, today worn by sumo ...
History of the Loss of Vietnam (越南亡國史), is a Vietnamese book written in chữ Hán, written by Phan Bội Châu while he was in Japan. It was published by Liang Qichao, a leading Chinese nationalist revolutionary scholar then in Japan. After the conquest of Nanyue (Vietnamese: Nam Việt; chữ Hán: 南越), parts of modern-day ...
Later, in 1920, French-Polish linguist Jean Przyluski found that Mường is more closely related to Vietnamese than other Mon–Khmer languages, and a Viet–Muong subgrouping was established, also including Thavung, Chut, Cuoi, etc. [11] The term "Vietic" was proposed by Hayes (1992), [12] who proposed to redefine Viet–Muong as referring to ...
Coordinates: 21°1′43″N105°50′8″E21.02861°N 105.83556°E. Văn Miếu (Vietnamese: Văn Miếu, chữ Hán: 文廟 [ 1 ][ 2 ]), literally translated as Temple of Literature (although a more accurate name should be Temple of Confucius, as Văn refers to Confucius), is a temple dedicated to Confucius in Hanoi, northern Vietnam.
Chữ Nôm (𡨸喃, IPA: [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ nom˧˧]) [5] is a logographic writing system formerly used to write the Vietnamese language. It uses Chinese characters to represent Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary and some native Vietnamese words, with other words represented by new characters created using a variety of methods, including phono-semantic ...
Đám cưới chuột (Rat's wedding), a popular example of Đông Hồ painting. Ðông Hồ painting (Vietnamese: Tranh Đông Hồ or Tranh làng Hồ), full name Đông Hồ folk woodcut painting (Tranh khắc gỗ dân gian Đông Hồ) is a line of Vietnamese folk painting originating in Đông Hồ village (Song Hồ commune, Thuận Thành District, Bắc Ninh Province).
Female figure with elaborate coiffure and hairpins, West Bengal, 1st century BC. Hopi woman dressing hair, ca. 1900. A hairstyle, hairdo, haircut, or coiffure refers to the styling of hair, usually on the human head but sometimes on the face or body. The fashioning of hair can be considered an aspect of personal grooming, fashion, and cosmetics ...