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Chử was born in an extremely poor fishing family. He and his father possessed nothing but a single loincloth. When his father died, Chử Đồng Tử did not want to bury his father while naked.
Từ Thức's tale is adapted by scriptwriters Quy Sắc and Mộng Long into a cải lương play called Từ Thức Lên Tiên (lit. ' Từ Thức Ascending to Godly Realm '). The play introduces a new character name Yến Nhi or Ý Nhi, who is the fiancée of Từ Thức before he marries Giáng Hương and is still alive as a very old woman ...
Vietnamese temples are generically called miếu (meaning "temple") in Vietnamese language. In the northern regions, the miếu are temples hosting the "main worship" of a deity and usually located at secluded places, [ 37 ] while đình, đền, điện, đài or tịnh are temples for "emissary" or "secondary worship" located nearer or within ...
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 common in communities where Vietnamese migration has occoured.
The sapèqueries of Đại Nam under Emperor Tự Đức were operated by the Hanoi Office of Current Money (河內通寶局, "Hà-Nội Thông Bảo Cục") which replaced the former Office of Currency (Bảo Tuyền Cục) and the Capital Office of Currency (Bảo Hoá Kinh Cục), and the main sapèqueries were located in Huế while mints were also in operation in Hanoi, Sơn Tây, and ...
After the use of the Zimbabwean dollar ceased on 12 April 2009, [47] the dong was the second least valued currency unit after the Iranian rial as of 28 November 2014. Since 19 June 2014, the Vietnamese dong has been devalued a total of five times in an effort to help spur exports and to ensure the stability of the currency. [48]
In 1445, Le Nhan Tong issued a decree and conferred Le Tu Thanh as Prince of Binh Nguyen (Bình Nguyên Vương), and sent to kinh sư, to study with other kings in Kinh Dien. Officials in Kinh Dien such as Tran Phong noticed that Binh Nguyen Vuong had a dignified appearance and was more intelligent than other people, so they considered him an ...
Whitehead Refugee Camp, HK disused in 2008 The old RAF headquarters on Kwun Tong Road, Kai Tak, which housed boat people until 1997. Bat lau dung laai (Chinese: 不漏洞拉 or 北漏洞拉 [1]; Jyutping: bat1 lau6 dung6 laai1) is a Hong Kong Cantonese corruption of the Vietnamese phrase bắt đầu từ nay, meaning "from now on" (bắt đầu = begin, start; từ = "from", nay = "now ...