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Roi Nuoc is a traditional Vietnamese performance art using colorfully painted and costumed wooden puppets. They most closely resemble marionett..
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Hat Quan Ho was born about the 13th century in the Bac Ninh province and was always heard during spring festivals, especially of the Buddhists...
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The Vietnamese are very religious but not fanatical. Compared to other categories, cult music was not widely developed. The most significant cu..
Hat Ru (Lullabies) are a sort of folk music often heard in Vietnam, especially in the countryside. Ru, certainly, are songs to lull babies, but vietnamese women use them to consign t..
Vietnamese martial arts have also assimilated elements of traditional Asian medicine. Confucianism and other Asian philosophies, as well as systems of ethics, military arts, and aest..
The Hat Cheo is a satirical musical theatre, a kind of popular opera with an entirely oral tradition.
Cheo is a specific and special art of Vietnam's cultural heritage, a
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Hat Xoan is a festive and custom folk-song performed in festivals and worshiping genie.
According to "Hung Vuong Legend", Hat Xoan began in the stage of building the country of V..
Hat Gheo is a kind of loving singing performed by boys and girls in the spring, autumn, festive season and nights with bright moonlights.
Hat Gheo of Phu Tho is performed most in ..
Two-stringed musical instrument (Dan Tinh) is the special folk musical instrument of Tay ethnic people.
Two-stringed musical instrument (Dan Tinh) is the special folk musical instru..
Then singing in Cao Bang is widely popular with plentiful different appearance in all aspects in every region, district.
It is easily seen that Then singing in the Eastern is more h..
Sli luon is a popular and unique folk song of Nung ethnic people.
Nung ethnic group has many groups and different names, which are closed with their old homeland or living style. S..
Ca Tru - an original art performance of academic character - has been preserved for the past 10 centuries.
Ca Tru appeared officially under Ly Dynasty (11th century). Originally, Ca..
This type of music originated from royal music at the beginning of the 19th century in the Nguyen Dynasty. It was well developed by the time of King Tu Duc.
By the end of the 19th c..
Cải Lương, VIETNAMESE OPERA or also known as VIETNAMESE RENOVATED OPERA is a type of theatre that was developed in the early 20th century.
It was first played by ama..
For more than three thousand years, members of the more than twenty ethenic minority cultures of the Tay Nguyen region of Vietnam- the centre highlands- have practiced gong music.
T..
Hat tuong, the Vietnamese classical opera, (called Boi in the southern part of Vietnam) has been considered a specific traditional art on Viet Nam.
Tuong was formed in the 17th and ..