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Nguyễn dynasty officials wearing formal clothing during Lễ tế Nam Giao. Vietnamese clothing is the traditional style of clothing worn in Vietnam by the Vietnamese people. The traditional style has both indigenous and foreign elements due to the diverse cultural exchanges during the history of Vietnam. This all eventually led to the birth ...
Damask. Damask ( /ˈdæməsk/; Arabic: دمشق) is a woven, reversible patterned fabric. Damasks are woven by periodically reversing the action of the warp and weft threads. [ 1] The pattern is most commonly created with a warp-faced satin weave and the ground with a weft-faced or sateen weave. [ 2] Fabrics used to create damasks include silk ...
Áo dài ( English: / ˈaʊˈdaɪ, ˈɔːˈdaɪ, ˈaʊˈzaɪ /; Vietnamese: [ʔaːw˧˦ zaːj˨˩] ( North), [ʔaːw˦˥ jaːj˨˩] ( South)) [ 1][ 2] is a modernized Vietnamese national garment consisting of a long split tunic worn over silk trousers. It can serve as formalwear for both men and women. Áo translates as shirt [ 3] and dài ...
Lê Duẩn ( Vietnamese: [lē zʷə̂n]; 7 April 1907 – 10 July 1986) was a Vietnamese communist politician. He rose in the party hierarchy in the late 1950s and became General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam (VCP) at the 3rd National Congress in 1960. He continued Hồ Chí Minh 's policy of ruling ...
Lý Thường Kiệt ( 李 常 傑; 1019–1105), real name Ngô Tuấn ( 吳 俊 ), was a Vietnamese general and admiral of the Lý dynasty. [ 1] He served as an official through the reign of Lý Thái Tông, Lý Thánh Tông and Lý Nhân Tông and was a general during the Song–Lý War. In Vietnamese history, he helped invade Champa (1069 ...
The Truyền kỳ mạn lục (傳奇漫錄, "Casual Records of Transmitted Strange Tales") is a 16th-century Vietnamese historical text, in part a collection of legends, by Nguyễn Dữ (阮嶼) composed in Classical Chinese. [1] The collection was translated into French by UNESCO in 1962. [2] [3] Nguyễn Thế Nghi (阮世儀) translated ...
The Viet Cong [nb 1] was an epithet and umbrella term to call the communist-driven armed movement and united front organization in South Vietnam.Formally organized as and led by the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam [nb 2] and nominally conducted military operations under the name of the Liberation Army of South Vietnam (LASV), the movement fought under the direction of North Vietnam ...
Nón lá. Nón lá ( chữ Nôm: 𥶄蘿; lit. 'Leaf hat') or nón tơi ( 𥶄𥵖) is a type of Vietnamese headwear used to shield the face from the sun and rain. [ 1] Nón lá is a typical symbol of the Vietnamese people. It is a common name for many types of hats in Vietnam, but now it is mainly used to refer to cones with pointed tips.