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Bai Choi
Bài Chòi (aka Bài tới in Huế) is a combination of arts in Central Vietnam including music, poetry, acting, painting and literature, providing recreation, entertainment and socialising within village communities. It was inscribed on the UNESCO's UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists, Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity list in 2017. Bài Chòi was recognised as Vietnam's national intangible cultural heritage during 2014-2016 by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Bài Chòi games and performances involve a card game similar to bingo, played with songs and music performed by Hieu artists, during the Tết Nguyên Đán. In Hội An, Quảng Nam province, Quang Nam, Bai Choi singing classes have been opened for secondary school students. The bài chòi culture has also been introduced in Japan and in Germany. Origin In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, many wild animals in the forest often came to destroy crops and disturb the lives of innocent peo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinese Playing Cards
Playing cards () were most likely invented in China during the Southern Song dynasty (1127–1279). They were certainly in existence by the Mongol Yuan dynasty (1271-1368).Lo, Andrew. (2000)The Game of Leaves: An Inquiry into the Origin of Chinese Playing Cards Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 63(3), 389–406. Chinese use the word ''pái'' (), meaning "plaque", to refer to both playing cards and tiles.Lo, Andrew (2004) 'China's Passion for Pai: Playing Cards, Dominoes, and Mahjong.' In: Mackenzie, C. and Finkel, I., (eds.), Asian Games: The Art of Contest. New York: Asia Society, pp. 217-231. Many early sources are ambiguous, and do not specifically refer to paper ''pái'' (cards) or bone ''pái'' (tiles); but there is no difference in play between these, as either serves to hide one face from the other players with identical backs. Many western scholars, like William Henry Wilkinson, Stewart Culin, Thomas F. Carter, and Michael Dumme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Đà Nẵng
Da Nang or DanangSee also Danang Dragons (, ) is the list of cities in Vietnam, fifth-largest city in Vietnam by municipal population. It lies on the coast of the Western Pacific Ocean of Vietnam at the mouth of the Hàn River (Vietnam), Hàn River, and is one of Vietnam's most important port cities. As one of the country's six direct-controlled municipality, direct-controlled municipalities, it falls under the administration of the politics of Vietnam, central government. The city was known as Cửa Hàn during early Đại Việt settlement, and as Tourane (or Turon) during French Indochina, French colonial rule. Before 1997, the city was part of Quang Nam – Da Nang Province. On 1 January 1997, Da Nang was separated from Quảng Nam Province to become one of four centrally controlled municipalities in Vietnam. Da Nang is designated as a List of cities in Vietnam, first class city, and has a higher urbanization ratio than any of Vietnam's other provinces of Vietnam, provinces ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ca Dao
Vietnamese poetry originated in the form of folk poetry and proverbs. Vietnamese poetic structures include ''Lục bát'', ''Song thất lục bát'', and various styles shared with Classical Chinese poetry forms, such as are found in Tang poetry; examples include verse forms with "seven syllables each line for eight lines," "seven syllables each line for four lines" (a type of quatrain), and "five syllables each line for eight lines." More recently there have been ''new poetry'' and ''free poetry''. With the exception of free poetry, a form with no distinct structure, other forms all have a certain structure. The tightest and most rigid structure was that of the Tang dynasty poetry, in which structures of content, number of syllables per line, lines per poem, rhythm rule determined the form of the poem. This stringent structure restricted Tang poetry to the middle and upper classes and academia. History Beginnings The first indication of Vietnamese literary activity dates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
String Of Cash Coins (currency Unit)
A string of cash coins (Traditional Chinese: , , ; ) refers to a historical China, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Ryukyu Kingdom, Ryukyuan, and Vietnamese currency unit that was used as a superunit of the Cash (Chinese coin), Chinese cash, Japanese mon (currency), Japanese mon, Korean mun, Ryukyuan mon, and Vietnamese cash, Vietnamese văn currencies. The square hole in the middle of cash coins served to allow for them to be strung together in strings. The term would later also be used on banknotes and served there as a superunit of ''Chinese cash (currency unit), wén'' (). Prior to the Song dynasty strings of cash coins were called (), (), or (), while during the Ming dynasty, Ming and Qing dynasty, Qing dynasties they were called () or ().Chinesecoins.lyq.dWeights and units in Chinese coinageSection: "Guan 貫, Suo 索, Min 緡, Diao 吊, Chuan 串." by Lars Bo Christensen. Retrieved: 05 February 2018. In Japan and Vietnam the term would continue to be used until the aboliti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myriad
In the context of numeric naming systems for powers of ten, myriad is the quantity ten thousand ( 10,000). Idiomatically, in English, ''myriad'' is an adjective used to mean that a group of things has indefinitely large quantity. ''Myriad'' derives from the ancient Greek for ten thousand () and is used with this meaning in literal translations from Greek, Latin or Sinospheric languages ( Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese), and in reference to ancient Greek numerals. The term ''myriad'' is also used in the form "a myriad" for a 100 km × 100 km square (10,000 km²) the grid size of the British Ordnance Survey National Grid and the US Military Grid Reference System. It contains 100 hectads. History The Aegean numerals of the Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations included a symbol composed of a circle with four dashes to denote tens of thousands. In classical Greek numerals, myriad was written as a capital mu: Μ. To distinguish this numeral from letters, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cash (Chinese Coin)
The cash or ''qian'' was a type of coin of China and the East Asian cultural sphere, Sinosphere, used from the 4th century BCE until the 20th century, characterised by their round outer shape and a square center hole ( zh, c=方穿, poj=hong-chhoan, j=fong1 cyun1, p=fāng chuān). Originally cast during the Warring States period, these coins continued to be used for the entirety of Imperial China. The last Chinese cash coins were cast in the first year of the Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China. Generally most cash coins were made from copper or bronze alloys, with iron, lead, and zinc coins occasionally used less often throughout Chinese history. Rare silver and gold cash coins were also produced. During most of their production, cash coins were Cast coinage, cast, but during the late Qing dynasty, Milled coinage, machine-struck cash coins began to be made. As the cash coins produced over Chinese history were similar, thousand year old cash coins produced during the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tết
Tết (, ), short for (; ), is the most important celebration in Vietnamese culture. Tết celebrates the arrival of spring based on the Vietnamese calendar and usually falls on January or February in the Gregorian calendar. is not to be confused with Tết Trung Thu, which is also known as Children's Festival in Vietnam. "'" itself only means festival but it would generally refer to the Lunar New Year in Vietnamese, as it is often seen as the most important festival amongst the Vietnamese and the Vietnamese diaspora, with regarded as the second-most important. Vietnamese people celebrate annually, which is based on a lunisolar calendar (calculating both the motions of Earth around the Sun and of the Moon around Earth). Tết is generally celebrated on the same day as Chinese New Year (also called Spring Festival), with the one-hour time difference between Vietnam and China resulting in the new moon occurring on different days. Rarely, the dates of Vietnamese and Chine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival
A festival is an event celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristic aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as a local or national holiday, Melā, mela, or Muslim holidays, eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agriculture, agricultural. Food is such a vital resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious commemoration and thanksgiving for good harvests are blended in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern. Festivals often serve to fulfill specific communal purposes, especially in regard to commemoration or thanking to the gods, goddesses or saints: they are called patronal festivals. They may also provide entertainment, which was particularly important to local communities before the adven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
