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Traditional puppetry confronts new challenges
Lack of audience is the biggest problem for most traditional arts like Cheo, Tuong, Cai Luong, but not for puppetry, which in confronted by a lack of manpower. Compared to other traditional arts, puppetry, especially water puppetry, is attractive to audiences. But this art is only attractive to foreigners and child audiences, not Vietnamese adults. [...]
Cai luong singer feels the love
Both veteran and younger actors performed at the Artists’ Pagoda, also known as the Nhat Quang Tu (Sunlight Pagoda), to celebrate the birthday of People’s Artist Phung Ha and wish her a long life. The pagoda, located in the city’s Go Vap District and now owned by Ha, was the setting for cai luong (reformed [...]
Thanh Hoa to cast bronze drum, sword as presents for General Giap
The central province of Thanh Hoa on May 22 will cast a bronze drum and a sword under traditional rites to present to top-ranking General Vo Nguyen Giap on the 60th anniversary of his brevet and 97th birthday. Chairman of Thanh Hoa province’s Vietnam Cultural Heritage Branch, Ho Quang Son, said the casting ceremony is [...]
Book on Buddhist temples published to welcome Vesak
Vietnam has especially published an English language version of the best selling book “Buddhist Temples” to welcome the UN Day of Vesak, which is slated to begin in Ha Noi on May 14. The book features 52 popular pagodas from around the nation, in words and pictures, conveying a Vietnamese Party and Government message of [...]
Dragon boats to race in Chau Doc
In love with Vietnamese traditional culture? Excited by Vietnamese folk games? Do not walk away. You’re invited to join a festival in a sacred place in Chau Doc, An Giang Province. The fourth “Dragon Boat Races” will begin on May 25 near the Chau Doc Sports Center and Victoria Hotels and Resorts to promote Chau [...]





