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Customs and Habits - Vietnam Culture

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Vietnamese customs describe habitual practices through life line of Vietnamese people such as: Pregnancy and birth customs, Vietnamese wedding customs...

Nung in Quang Ninh

The Nung mainly worship their ancestors, spirits, saints, Confucius, and Kwan Yin. Nung villages are often built on hillsides.Language: The Nung language resembles the Tay belongs ...

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Tay in Quang Ninh

They live in villages and hamlets, either along stream shores or in plains and valleys. Houses were formerly built on stilts, but today modern changes can be seen in construction

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San Chay in Quang Ninh

They live in villages and hamlets, either along stream shores or in plains and valleys. Houses were formerly built on stilts, but today modern changes can be seen in construction. For the San Chỉ, religious practises for death ceremonies are extremely important.

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San Diu in Quang Ninh

They can mainly be found living in villages and hamlets. Houses feature walls and roofs of hooked tiles. The San Diu practices the cult of ancestors, and also worship their own particular genies.

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Why a Newborn Baby is not Given a Name

There are many reasons why Vietnamese do not name their newborn babies when they were born. The reasons are belief, olden government policy in the old society and family customs.

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Funeral Ceremony

A person's death is followed by funeral ceremony. The body was washed and dressed; then a le ngam ham, or chopstick, was laid between the teeth and a pinch of rice and three coins were dropped in the mouth. Then the body was put on a grass mat laid on the ground according ...

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Wedding Ceremony

Wedding is very important to Vietnamese, not only to the couple involved, but also for both families. Thus, it is usually including quite a few formal ritual observances. The Wedding day is usually chosen well in advance by the groom and the bride's parents (in the old ...

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Engagement Ceremony

In Vietnam, the engagement is a festive ceremony involving the fiance's and fiancee's families, and arranged in advance by the parents. The engagement is considered very important, and in some areas, even more important than the ...

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Betel Leaf and Areca Nut

Betel leaf and Areca Nut have important socio-cultural and ceremonial uses in Vietnam. In ancient times, the Vietnamese habit to chew Betel could be compared to the western habit of drinking coffee or smoking cigarettes. The betel leaf (La Trau) belong to the Pepper ...

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Paper figures of doctoral laureates

During the Mid-Autumn season, markets, parties, and homes display paper figures of successful students at the highest royal administrative examination. This tradition relates to the tough selection of Confucian scholars for the king's administration. During Viet Nam's ...

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The Lion Dance

Why do people perform the Lion Dance? Once upon a time, there was a woodcutter who lived in a forest. On one moonlit Mid-Autumn night, he saw a big lion playing with the moonlight by the forest stream. The lion jumped into the stream to catch the reflection of the moon in ...

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A brief introduction Vietnam village culture

Village culture is an important component taking part in creating Viet Nam cultural identity. Being a typical agricultural country, people's lives must depend much on natural conditions, thus, for existence and development, owners of Viet Nam villages that are peasants ...

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Celebrating Tet

For centuries, Vietnamese people have celebrated Tet, the lunar new year. As they welcome the coming year and bid farewell to the past, they draw on traditional customs to mark this special day.

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Streets alive

Street snacks abolind in Vietnam and the cries of the hawkers who sell them evoke powerful emotions in people who associate them with childhood treats and thoughts of home. The young woman selling roasted meat and noodles uses a thin wisp of smoke from the grill tied ...

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Match makers

Generations ago, marriage was a family affair, as parents select their child’s spouse. In the past, the weddings of  Kinh people - Vietnam's ethnic majority - were arranged by matchmakers. Before marriage, the betrothed were not allowed to touch each other. If the ...

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The wedding march

Will you marry me? For the Pa Then, a minority group in northern Vietnam, popping the question is anything but simple. One marries only once in life, One is buried only once after death. -Pa Then proverbIntroduction There are some 4,000 Pa Then people scattered in ...

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