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Born on 25 December 1910 as Nguyễn Thành Nam, he was born in a village in Truc Giang district, Kien Hoa province. He was the son of a rich family, whose father named Nguyễn Thành Trúc was a chief of the region and had a mother named Lê Thị Sen. In 1928, he went to Rouen, France, to study for seven years. When he graduated as a ...
Qwan Ki Do or Quán Khí Đạo is a Vietnamese martial art that was codified in France in 1981. Qwan Ki Do is practiced internationally, with schools in Asia and Europe. The practice combines the use of hand-to-hand techniques and weapons, with moves combined in both formalised combinations, termed Thao Quyen, and freeform settings.
The floating temple of the Coconut Religion, photographed in 1969. The Coconut Religion is a religion founded by Ông Đạo Dừa in Bến Tre, South Vietnam.It was one of many religions in the South until the new socialist government abolished it in 1975.
The Kien Trung palace was located at the far north of the Forbidden Purple City within the north–south axis (the so-called Dung Dao axis), behind the Can Thanh and Khon Thai palaces. [7] It was designed in eclectic style, mixing European styles (Italian Renaissance and French classicism) and ancient Vietnamese styles.
Before the creation of the universe there was the "dao", the infinite, nameless, formless, unchanging, eternal source. The negative and positive principles of the universe are the components of the eternal nature. [21] There are two main Gods, the Cao Đài ("Highest Lord") and the Diêu Trì Kim Mẫu or Đức Phật Mẫu ("Holy Buddha ...
Đông Hồ painting depicts Phù Đổng Thiên Vương Statue of little Thánh Gióng at Phù Đổng Six-Way Intersection, Ho Chi Minh City. Thánh Gióng (chữ Nôm: 聖揀), [1] also known as Phù Đổng Thiên Vương (chữ Hán: 扶董天王, Heavenly Prince of Phù Đổng), Sóc Thiên Vương (chữ Hán: 朔天王), Ông Gióng (翁揀, sir Gióng) [2] [3] and Xung Thiên Thần ...
The Way of the Five Pecks of Rice (Chinese: 五斗米道; pinyin: Wǔ Dǒu Mǐ Dào) or the Way of the Celestial Master, commonly abbreviated to simply The Celestial Masters, was a Chinese Taoist movement founded by the first Celestial Master Zhang Daoling in 142 CE.
Phan Thanh Giản (潘清簡; 1796–1867; Haicheng, Zhangzhou), the Grand Counsellor of the Nguyễn Dynasty in Vietnam. Negotiator of the Treaty of Saigon. Phan Thanh Liêm (潘清簾, 1833 – 1896),Son of Phan Thanh Giản. Vietnamese soldier, politician, nationalist and (anti-French) Vietnam independence activist.