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A Vietnamese mythic history states that in the spring of 1789, after marching to Ngọc Hồi and then winning a great victory against invaders from the Qing dynasty of China, Emperor Quang Trung ordered a messenger to gallop to Phú Xuân citadel (now Huế) and deliver a flowering peach branch to the Empress Ngọc Hân. This took place on ...
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Vietnamese name; Vietnamese alphabet: Phúc Lộc Thọ ... He is recognized by his high, domed forehead and the peach which he carries as a symbol of immortality.
Yellow, beyond the meaning of a royal symbol, is the traditional colour of Vietnamese nation and the colour of Vietnamese skin, red is the colour of Vietnamese blood together is the "red blood, yellow skin" [note 1] of the Vietnamese. three red stripes symbolised the united Vietnam under three regions Northern Vietnam , Central Vietnam and ...
A Taoist charm that contains Taoist "magic writing" on display at the Museum of Ethnography, Sweden. Taoist coin charms (simplified Chinese: 道教品压生钱; traditional Chinese: 道教品壓生錢; pinyin: dào jiào pǐn yā shēng qián), or Daoist coin charms are a family of categories of Chinese and Vietnamese numismatic charms that incorporate elements of the Taoist religion.
Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary (Vietnamese: từ Hán Việt, Chữ Hán: 詞漢越, literally 'Chinese-Vietnamese words') is a layer of about 3,000 monosyllabic morphemes of the Vietnamese language borrowed from Literary Chinese with consistent pronunciations based on Middle Chinese. Compounds using these morphemes are used extensively in cultural ...
Tày customs were altered greatly due to Vietnamese and Confucian patriarchal structures, however some customs persisted. Polygamy with multiple equal wives and legitimacy of issue was practiced. Marriage was preferred to occur within the clan.
Phở gan cháy: meaning grilled liver pho, a specialty found in Bắc Ninh city. Phở trâu: Buffalo pho, a specialty of Nam Định and Hà Nam provinces. Phở dê: Goat pho, a specialty of Ninh Bình province. Vietnamese beef soup can also refer to bún bò Huế, which is a spicy beef noodle soup, is associated with Huế in central Vietnam.