The Festival In Vietnam

Vietnam National Wide Festival

Tet Nguyen Tieu

After the Lunar New Year (Tet Nguyen Dan), there will be a big festival of Tet Nguyen Tieu. Chinese people and Vietnamese people in the Cho Lon area 

Vu Lan Festival

Honoring: Showing gratitude to parents, ancestors. Time: 15th of seventh lunar month. Location: In the pagodas Feature: Vu Lan celebration is at the same time Vietnamese all Soul’s day.

Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-autumn festival is called Tet Trung Thu in Vietnam. It is organized in the middle of the Autumn which is the eighth lunar month of the year. Mid-autumn 

Lunar New Year [Tet Nguyen Dan]

Honoring: Grandparent, Kin, and Ancestor. Scale: Nation-wide. Time: The 30th day of the twelfth lunar month of the first lunar month of the new year.

North Vietnam Festival

Yen Phu Communel House Festival

Yen Phu communal house festival is a historical and cultural vestige which is listed in national vestiges since 1986. 

Mach Lung Temple Festival

Mieu Mach Lung (Mach Lung Temple) is located in the hill of 30,000sqm in Mach Lung hamlet, Dai Mach commune, Dong Anh district, Hanoi. The temple worships three Kings in the King Hung XVIII: Minh Lao Hung Dai Vuong, Minh Lao Hung Doan Dai Vuong and Minh Lao Hung Nghi Dai Vuong

Buffalo Fighting Festival in Phu Tho Province

The buffalo fighting of Phu Ninh district (Phu Tho province) is not only the oldest but holding deep traditional features of Hung Vuong era with the spirit of sportsmanship, and it is also the ritual to wish for proper climate and nice crop.

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rice is one of Vietnam's main export

vendors sit by their goods at a market in Vietnam

Hanoi is Vietnam's capital city

Ha Long Bay in northeast Vietnam consists of more

than 1,600 island and inlets

The story of Vietnam

NATURE of VIETNAM

Vietnam's mountainous terrain, forests, wetlands, and long coastline contain many different habitats that support a great variety of wildlife. Some 270 types of mammals, 180 reptiles, 80 amphibians, and 800 bird species reside in Vietnam.

Many rare and unusual animals live in Vietnam, including giant catfish, Indochinese tigers, Saola antelopes, and Sumatran rhinos. The government has set up 30 parks and reserves to protect its animals, but their survival is in doubt because much of their habitat has been cleared for lumber or to grow crops.

Tropical forests once covered most of Vietnam, but over the past few hundred years, logging has reduced the forest cover to only about 19 percent. The government has launched a replanting program in an attempt to restore these woodlands.

GEOGRARHY of VIETNAM

Vietnam is a long, narrow nation shaped like the letter s. It is in Southeast Asia on the eastern edge of the peninsula known as Indochina. Its neighbors include China to the north and Laosand Cambodia to the west. The South China Sea lies to the east and south. The mountains of the Annam Cordillera rise over most of the western side of Vietnam, while a thousand-mile (1,600-kilometer) coastline dominates the east.

At its narrowest point, Vietnam is only 30 miles (48 kilometers) wide. Two of Vietnam's largest rivers, the Mekong in the south and the Red in the north, end at the South China Sea in huge swampy plains called deltas. These regions are home to most of the country's people and provide fertile ground to grow rice and many other crops.

PEOPLE & CULTURE of VIETNAM

Most Vietnamese people live in the countryside, mainly in the river delta regions of the north and south. Recently though, people have begun to move to the main cities of Ho Chi Minh (formerly Saigon) and Hanoi.

The most popular sports in Vietnam include soccer, table tennis, volleyball, and martial arts.

Vietnamese food is a blend of Chinese and Thai styles and features seafood and homegrown fruits and vegetables.

As a communist country, Vietnam has no official religion. But people are free to worship if they want to, and many follow what's called the "Three Teachings" of Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.

GOVERNMENT & ECONOMY of VIETNAM

Vietnam is a socialist state governed by the Communist Party of Vietnam. A president, chosen by the National Assembly, is head of state and commander of the armed forces. An appointed prime minister runs the government.

Vietnam's main exports include crude oil, seafood, rice, shoes, wooden products, machinery, electronics, coffee, and clothing. Between 1975 and the late 1980s, Vietnam traded mainly with other communist countries, but since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, it has expanded trade with other nations.

HISTORY of VIETNAM

Vietnam's first civilizations arose in the Red River Valley some 5,000 years ago. These northern tribes flourished until 207 B.C., when their region was conquered by a Chinese lord, who established a kingdom called Nam Viet.

In 111 B.C., Nam Viet became part of the Chinese empire, which ruled the north until A.D. 939, when a Vietnamese commander named Ngo Quyen organized a revolt that drove the Chinese out. Later dynasties renamed the country Dai Viet and gradually extended their territory south. By the mid-1500s, Dai Viet was divided between rival kingdoms: the Trinh in the north and the Nguyen in the south.

In 1802, a Nguyen lord, with the help of the French, defeated the Trinh and renamed the country Vietnam. By 1890, however,France had taken over Vietnam.

Japan took control briefly during World War II, and when the war ended with Japan's defeat in 1945, Ho Chi Minh, the leader of the Vietnamese Communist Party, declared Vietnam an independent nation. French attempts to retake Vietnam led to war with the communist Vietnamese, called Viet Minh. Fighting ended in 1954 with the partition of the country into communist North and non-communist South Vietnam.

In 1957, communist rebels in the south, called Viet Cong, rose up. War between the North and South ensued, and other countries, including the United States, Russia, and China, soon became involved. The fighting lasted until 1975, when the communists overran the south and took its capital, Saigon.

The fast facts

Fast Facts of Vietnam

Continent: Asia

Official Name: Socialist

Form of Government: Socialist Republic

Capital City: Hanoi

Population: 93,421,835

Official Language: Vietnamese

Money: Dong

Area: 127,123 square miles 

          [329,247 square kilometer]

Major Mountain Range: Annam Cordilera

Major Rivers: Mekong, Red, Ma, and Perfume