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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 ...
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 ...
Lion dance with Thần Tài in Thăng Long Cổ trấn, Phú Quốc. Phú Quốc ( Vietnamese: [fǔ kǔə̯k]) is the largest island in Vietnam. Phú Quốc and nearby islands, along with the distant Thổ Chu Islands, are part of Kiên Giang Province as Phú Quốc City. The island has a total area of 589.27 km 2 (227.52 sq mi) and a permanent ...
In 2015, Vượng was listed as the richest person in Vietnam with assets totaling VNĐ 24.3 trillion (approximately US$1.1 billion), which more than quadrupled those of the second richest person, Trần Đình Long of Hanoi Hoa Phat Corporation. [11] His wife, Phạm Thu Hương and sister-in-law Phạm Thúy Hằng ranked third and fifth ...
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Instrument (s) Guitar. Years active. 1958–2001. Trịnh Công Sơn (February 28, 1939 – April 1, 2001) was a Vietnamese musician, songwriter, painter and poet. [1] [2] He is widely considered to be Vietnam's best songwriter. His music explores themes of love, loss, and anti-war sentiments during the Vietnam War ...
The Ministry of Industry and Trade ( MOIT, Vietnamese: Bộ Công thương) is the government ministry in Vietnam responsible for the advancement, promotion, governance, regulation, management and growth of industry and trade. The former Ministry of Trade has its origins in 1945 with the formation of the modern National Unification Cabinet, and ...
Khiem's oracular poetry has been compared to that of Nostradamus. It contains the earliest known use of the word "Vietnam." Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm ( chữ Hán: 阮 秉 謙; 1491–1585) was a Vietnamese administrator, confucianist, poet, prophet and later a saint of the Cao Dai religion and of the new religious movement known as School of ...
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 ...