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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 ...
Pair of Cáo chín đuôi statues on the entrance to Lữ Gia temple, Gôi town, Vụ Bản, Nam Định. In the book Lĩnh Nam chích quái, the Hồ ly tinh (or Hồ tinh) is also mentioned with the image of an animal that causes harm to good people, then killed by Lạc Long Quân to eliminate harm to the people.
Thanh Giang sứ giả statue at An Dương Vương Temple A depiction of the legend of the Kim Qui and the Restored Sword (Hoan Kiem), on mural ceramics in Hoan Kiem temple Kim Quy ( Chữ Hán : 金龜) (“Gold Turtle”, also spelled Kim Qui ) or Thanh Giang sứ giả ( Chữ Hán : 清江使者) is a mythical golden turtle god appearing ...
Bình Thạnh is a district of Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.As of 2017, the district had a population of 490,618 and a total area of 21 km 2. [1]The name of the district was formed from the names of two wards in the old Gò Vấp district, Bình Hòa and Thạnh Mỹ Tây.
Thanh Xuân is an urban district (quận) of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. [3] The district currently has 11 wards , covering a total area of 9.09 square kilometres (3.51 sq mi). [ 1 ] As of 2019, [ 2 ] there were 293,524 people residing in the district, the population density is 32,000 inhabitants per square kilometer.
Hoàn Kiếm Lake (Vietnamese: Hồ Hoàn Kiếm, chữ Hán: 湖還劍, meaning "Lake of the Returned Sword" or "Lake of the Restored Sword"), also known as Sword Lake (Hồ Gươm) or Tả Vọng Lake (Hồ Tả Vọng), is a fresh water lake, measuring some 12 ha in the historical center of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam.
Although the Qingming Festival is not celebrated in Vietnam, the Qingming Festival is mentioned (under the name Thanh Minh) in the epic poem The Tale of Kieu (which takes place in Ming China during the reign of Jiajing), when the protagonist Thúy Kiều (翠翹) meets a ghost of a dead old lady.
Nowadays, after many geographical changes to the city layout, Quán Thánh Temple is located on the corner of Quán Thánh Street and Thanh Niên Street, facing West Lake. It is a short walk from Trúc Bạch Lake where pilot (and future United States senator) John McCain was shot down in October 1967.