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Tổ tôm or Tụ tam bài (chữ Hán: 聚三牌, chữ Nôm: 祖𩵽 [1]) is a draw-and-discard card game played in Vietnam, usually by men. [2] The game is often played at festivals. [ 3 ] It is derived from the Chinese game of Khanhoo .
Founded in 257 BCE by a figure called Thục Phán (King An Dương), it was a merger of Nam Cương (Âu Việt) and Văn Lang (Lạc Việt) but succumbed to the state of Nanyue in 179 BCE, which, itself was finally conquered by the Han dynasty. [8][9] Its capital was in Cổ Loa, present-day Hanoi, in the Red River Delta.
Tiến lên (Vietnamese: tiến lên, tiến: advance; lên: to go up, up; literally: "go forward"; also Romanized Tien Len) is a shedding -type card game originating in Vietnam. [1] It may be considered Vietnam's national card game, and is also played in the United States, sometimes under the names Viet Cong, [2] VC, [2] Thirteen, [2] Killer ...
Nam quốc sơn hà (chữ Hán: 南 國 山 河, lit. 'Mountains and Rivers of the Southern Country') is a famous 10th- to 11th-century Vietnamese patriotic poem. Dubbed "Vietnam's first Declaration of Independence", [1] it asserts the sovereignty of Vietnam 's rulers over its lands. The poem was first dictated to be read aloud before and ...
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The Golden Starfruit Tree. The Golden Starfruit Tree (Vietnamese: Ăn khế trả vàng, lit. 'Eating starfruit and paying with gold' or simply Vietnamese: Cây khế, lit. 'The starfruit tree') is a Vietnamese folktale. It tells the story of a poor farmer who is paid handsomely by a magical bird after letting it feed on his starfruit tree, and ...