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Religion
 Language
 Clothing
 Cuisine
 customs
 Performing arts
 Literature
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Religion
Vietnam has a diverse mix of major
religions with a large number of
followers, religious figures, and monks
such as Buddhism, Christianity and Islam
and some indigenous religions
such as Caodaism and Hoa Hao and so on.
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Caodaism is a syncretistic religion
which combines elements from many
of the world's main religions,
including Buddhism, Confucianism,
Christianity, Hinduism, Islam,
Judaism, Taoism.
Meantime ,many larges of people
respect Buddhism.
54 ethnic groups in Vietnam
have different languages, 24
ethnic groups have their own
scripts such as Thai, Hmong,
Tay, Nung, and Khmer. The
Vietnamese language has
been selected as the common
language for the education
system from pre- school to
tertiary education.
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The French language, a legacy of colonial
rule, is still spoken by some older
Vietnamese as a second language, but has
declined in popularity. In recent years, as
Vietnam's contacts with Western nations
have increased, English has become more
popular as a second language.
Clothing
The áo dài（奥黛） is a Vietnamese national
costume, now most commonly worn by women.
In its current form, it is a tight-fitting silk tunic
worn over pantaloons. The word is pronounced
ow zai in the North and ow yai in the South of the
country. Áo is derived from a Middle Chinese
word meaning "padded coat" (袄 ). Dài means
"long".
奥黛
Ao Dai
Ao dai is also the uniform of
high school in vietnam
Vietnamese cooking
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Traditional Vietnamese cooking is
greatly admired for its fresh
ingredients, minimal use of oil, and
reliance on herbs and vegetables.
Vietnamese food is often ranked as
one of the healthiest cuisines in the
world.
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fresh herbs
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Fish sauce
Cuisine
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Vietnamese cuisine is the cooking
and baking of various foods and
beverages developed in Vietnam.
Regular ingredients include Fish
sauce(鱼露), shrimp paste（虾酱）,
soy sauce（豆酱）, rice, fresh
herbs（香草）, fruits and
vegetables.
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The most common meats used in
Vietnamese cuisine are fish, chicken, pork,
beef, and various kinds of seafood. The
Vietnamese also have a strong vegetarian
tradition influenced by Buddhist values.
Balut
Superstition in Vietnam
A certain necklace wards off evil spirits
A young man born in "the Year of the
Tiger," cannot marry his beloved from
"the Year of the Horse"
The hoot of an owl is regarded as a bad
omen announcing death or illness
A large number of fortune-tellers
Superstition in Vietnam
Avoid public displays of affection with a member of the opposite sex.
Do not touch someone's head.
Pass items with both hands.
Do not point with your finger - use your hand.
Do not cross your arms on your chest.
Do not pass anything over someone's head.
Do not touch anyone on the shoulder.
Do not touch a member of the opposite sex.
Shorts should only be worn at the beach.
Performing arts：music
•Vietnamese music varies slightly in the three regions:
Bắc or North, Trung or Central, and Nam or South.
Northern classical music is Vietnam's oldest and is
traditionally more formal.
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Vietnamese classical music
can be traced to the Mongol
invasions（蒙古入侵）,
when the Vietnamese captured
a Chinese opera troupe.
Central classical music shows
the influences of Champa（占
城--印度支那古国） culture
with its melancholic melodies
（忧郁的曲调）.
Vietnamese Drama
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越南戏剧的产生发展较为复杂。根据现状
推测，是以中国元杂剧为基础，吸收了一
些越南流行的歌曲后形成的，是传统的古
代戏，兼用韵文和散文，分折演出。唱词
和说白全用越汉音。唱腔缠绵悱恻,舞蹈性
较强
所演多为忠臣孝子等故事。
剧种：□剧、嘲剧、改良剧、话剧
Water puppetry水上木偶戏
•Water Puppetry is a distinct Vietnamese art which had its
origins in the 10th century. In Water Puppetry a splitbamboo screen obscures puppets which stand in water, and
are manipulated using long poles hidden beneath the water.
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Epic story lines are played out with
many different puppets, often using
traditional scenes of Vietnamese life.
The puppets are made from quality
wood, such as the South East Asian
Jackfruit tree（波罗蜜果树）. Each
puppet is carefully carved, and then
painted with numerous successive
layers of paint to protect the puppets.
Literature
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Vietnamese literature includes two major
components: folk literature and written
literature. The two forms developed
simultaneously and are profoundly interrelated.
Literature
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folk literature: Vietnamese folk literature came
into being very early and had a profound effect on the
spiritual life of the Viet. The folk literature
contributed to the formation of Vietnam's national
identity with praising beauty, humanism, and the love
of goodness. Legends, fairy tales, humorous stories,
folk songs, epic poems have a tremendous vitality and
have lived on until today.
Literature
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Written literature： was
born roughly in the 10th
century. Up until the 21th
century, there had been two
components existing at the
same time: works written in the
Han characters (with poems
and prose demonstrating the
Vietnamese soul and realities;
thus, they were still regarded as
Vietnamese literature) and
works written in the Nom
character(喃字) (mostly poems;
many great works were handed
down to the later generations).
"Mysterious tales of the Southern
Realm"