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  2. Public holidays in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Formerly held on April 8 (in Chinese calendar) until 1959. Buddhist festival, former public holiday of Vietnam until 1975 5 of 5th month: Tết Đoan Ngọ: Tết Đoan Ngọ: The day the sun is closest to the Earth - overlapping with the Summer solstice Also called the festival of eliminating insects and pests to protect the farms 15 of 7th month

  3. List of ethnic groups in Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    Make up those with Mandarin-speaking Chinese background. Not to be confused with the Ngái Hokkien, who are classified separately. Ngái <0.005%: 1,035 1,649: 4.66%: Thái Nguyên (800 people, constituting 48.51% of all Ngái in Vietnam), Bình Thuận (188 people, constituting 11.40% of all Ngái in Vietnam)

  4. Thích Nhất Hạnh - Wikipedia

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    Here he also learned Chinese, English and French. [6] Nhất Hạnh attended Báo Quốc Buddhist Academy. [ 13 ] [ 2 ] Dissatisfied with the focus at Báo Quốc Academy, which he found lacking in philosophy, literature, and foreign languages, Nhất Hạnh left in 1950 [ 13 ] and took up residence in the Ấn Quang Pagoda in Saigon, where he ...

  5. Chữ Nôm - Wikipedia

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    Chữ Nôm (𡨸喃, IPA: [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ nom˧˧]) [5] is a logographic writing system formerly used to write the Vietnamese language.It uses Chinese characters to represent Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary and some native Vietnamese words, with other words represented by new characters created using a variety of methods, including phono-semantic compounds. [6]

  6. Traditional Chinese timekeeping - Wikipedia

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    The Mahāsāṃghika, translated into Chinese as the Móhēsēngzhī Lǜ (Taishō Tripiṭaka 1425) describes several units of time, including shùn or shùnqǐng (瞬頃; 'blink moment') and niàn. According to this text, niàn is the smallest unit of time at 18 milliseconds and a shùn is 360 milliseconds. [8]

  7. Pháo - Wikipedia

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    Nguyễn Diệu Huyền (born 28 March 2003), commonly known by her stage name Pháo, is a Vietnamese rapper and producer. [1] She was born and raised in Tuyên Quang.The name Pháo was chosen by her as it symbolizes passion, [2] although in an earlier interview she stated that it was derived from the name of a character in the sitcom Kim Chi Cà Pháo (Eggplant Kimchi). [3]

  8. Golden Week (China) - Wikipedia

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    The Golden Week (simplified Chinese: 黄金周; traditional Chinese: 黃金週), in the People's Republic of China, is the name given to three separate 7-day or 8-day national holidays which were implemented in 2000: [1] Chunyun [disputed – discuss], the Golden Week around the Chinese New Year, begins in January or February.

  9. Tổ tôm - Wikipedia

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    It is similar to the Chinese game of Khanhoo. [ citation needed ] Literally, tổ-tôm means ‘nest of shrimps’; however, when written in Sino-Vietnamese characters ( Chữ Nôm ) it is read tụ tam (bài) (Chinese 聚 三 牌 ju san pai ), ‘gathering three cards’, [ 4 ] namely the three suits of Văn, Sách, and Vạn of the deck of cards.