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A retrieval lanyard is a nylon webbing lanyard used to raise and lower workers into confined spaces, such as storage tanks. An activation lanyard is a lanyard used to fire an artillery piece or arm the fuze on a bomb leaving an aircraft. [5] A deactivation lanyard is a dead man's switch, where pulling a lanyard free will disable a dangerous device.
Vietnamese designers created áo dài for the contestants in the Miss Universe beauty contest, which was held July 2008 in Nha Trang, Vietnam. [34] The most prominent annual Ao Dai Festival outside of Vietnam is held each year in San Jose, California, a city that is home to a large Vietnamese American community. [ 35 ]
The áo giao lĩnh was influenced from Han Chinese clothing. [1] It is a robe with a wrap collar closing on the right side. The wrap collar closing on the right side is known as jiaoling youren (Chinese: 交領右衽; lit. 'intersecting collar right lapel') in China; garments with this form of wrap collar originated in China and started to be worn at least since the Shang dynasty (c. 1600 BC ...
Chinese clothing in the form of trousers and tunic were mandated by the Nguyễn dynasty. As late as the 1920s, in Vietnam's north area in isolated hamlets skirts were still worn. [15] Ming, Tang, and Han dynasty-styled clothing was ordered to be adopted by Vietnamese military and bureaucrats by the Nguyễn lord Nguyễn Phúc Khoát. [16]
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 compounds. [6]
Bánh bao bánh vạc (also called white rose dumplings) are a regional specialty of Vietnamese cuisine unique to Hội An. The rice paper is translucent and wrapped to resemble a flower shape (the origin of the name "white rose"). It is said to be made with water from a certain well in Hội An, hence this dumpling is not found anywhere else.
Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary (Vietnamese: từ Hán Việt, Chữ Hán: 詞漢越, literally 'Chinese-Vietnamese words') is a layer of about 3,000 monosyllabic morphemes of the Vietnamese language borrowed from Literary Chinese with consistent pronunciations based on Middle Chinese.
A Bảo Đại period document issued by the Imperial Clan Court which mentions the Tết Trung Thu. Tết Trung Thu originated from Chinese culture, with three main legends that are associated with the festival: the story of Chang'e and Hou Yi, Emperor Tang Ming Huang's ascent to the moon in China, and the story of Uncle Cuội of Vietnam.