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Vietnamese dragons (Vietnamese: Rồng; chữ Nôm: 蠪; Sino-Vietnamese: Long; chữ Hán: 龍) are symbolic creatures in Vietnamese folklore and mythology. According to an ancient origin myth, the Vietnamese people are descended from a dragon and an Immortal. The dragon was symbolic of bringing rain, essential for agriculture.
A vè poem or song consists of rhyming couplets, in which the final syllable of every other row rhymes with the final syllable in the next row. [7] The rhyme scheme (Vietnamese: Nhịp đuổi) is therefore : The following is an example of vè, in which the words that rhyme are highlighted. [8] Some examples:
Ca dao is a Sino-Vietnamese term, 歌謠, the term is derived from the Classic of Poetry (Kinh Thi). Ca dao poems generally tell stories of everyday life. Most ca dao poems tend to be short, at most one couplet of fourteen syllables. But ca dao poems longer than that do exist. Ca dao can consist of four-syllable lines, five-syllable lines, six ...
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The most known variant of the story can be summarized as follows: [1] [2] In a certain village, there was a rich man with two sons. After the man died, the sons split his fortune. The greedy older son took most of the fortune, leaving his kind younger brother with just a starfruit tree. The younger son took care of the tree and it soon became ...
Our Lady of La Vang (Vietnamese: Đức Mẹ La Vang) refers to a reported Marian apparition at a time when Catholics were persecuted and killed in Vietnam.The Shrine of our Lady of La Vang (Basilica of Our Lady of La Vang) is situated in what is today Hải Phú commune in Hải Lăng District of Quảng Trị Province in Central Vietnam.
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Bầu cua cá cọp (lit. 'gourd crab fish tiger'; also Bầu cua tôm cá or Lắc bầu cua) is a Vietnamese gambling game using three dice. [1][2] The game is often played at Vietnamese New Year. Instead of showing one to six pips, the sides of the dice have pictures of a fish; a prawn; a crab; a cock; a calabash; and a stag (or a tiger).