Ngoc Ha flower village - a famous floriculture in Hanoi

Ngoc Ha is flowers village. Regarding to the floriculture, providing flowers for Hanoi to mentioning Ngoc Ha village the first, then to the village Huu Tiep, Dai Yen ... This village form long time ago ... Ancient books have recorded the last time Tran dynasty, Tran Chau general bring about Thang Long in 1526, has garrison troops in Hoang Hoa maket.
French time of the Ngoc Ha village flower very famous. It is not growing peach blossom as Nghi Tam, Quang Ba, Nhat Tan village, but is the flower of the year, during the month ... Roses, daisy, violet, gladious, butterflies, especially with lilies and Phăng flower (carnation) more ...

Often the morning, elegant the girls , first round wire chit tissue, mailed death, that is blue, the buff slippers, crooked deal as girls go Huong pagodas throughout the poet by Nguyen Nhuoc Phap , gently to carry flower into town.

Through the Western city, and old street, other city people, they sell flowers, often for the French official, Vietnam official, the ancient trading city ... Many of her acquaintances in the sale of Dong Xuan market, the Hom maket, or delivery of goods to shops selling flowers here ...

Specifically, the fifteenth of the lunar month, the first of the month, they often the goods harden for acquaintances. Packages are also flowers in the package is Rong- Dieng leaf, scroll or break square or round corner, forced by a bamboo string very thin and then suspended door at each home.

In the package also has flowers roses, Ylang ylang, magnolia and few flowers flower branch wood fibers or flowers ... just enough out in a small disk, with mediation perfume  incense insurgent spirit of Buddha and the first months or midway months ...
Flowers that the village is also where elegant boys than girls , is the time to convert each other, put together to visit, then purchase the gift a dozen beautiful roses bloom best, or ask a gladiolus for a wedding soon to ...

After this, the land of rare ... People sell the garden, field grown flowers, even fill pond then flowers beautiful ancient village hours only memories in the elderly. Ngoc Ha minutes remaining only a short side street outside the garden Bach Thao, the first Tay Son street, where a small market, also named Ngoc Ha market. Ngoc Ha Street not long to four, five hundred meters ...
Top of Ngoc Ha street is a one home to worship Huyen Thien Hac De, one to hold the northern communes. Ngoc Ha is also the vestiges of history. On 5-12-1898, the Ngoc Ha has with Nhue, Vong, Cot insurgent army, according to Nguyen Thanh and Nguyen Quang Hoan, occupy France military post in Ngoc Ha.
After the National resistance day, 20-12-1946 night, to self-defend the neighborhood and defend one's country make an ambush this military post again, break through french's plan attacks to expand the western city ...
In 12 day Dien Bien Phu in air, a part of the B52 was exposed at the sides of the lake in the Ngoc Ha village.

Van Phuc silk village - a famous trade village in Hanoi

As the silk weaving village of silk remotely famous is the ancient Nhue river of Ha Dong town.
Silk textile industry from the distant past of Vietnam .From 15 centuries, silk Vietnam leg of the merchant vessel to go to the visitors in nearly four remote communities. Silk textile industry in Vietnam is in many places, but can not say no to Van Phuc - an area the silk weaving craft long and celebrated in Vietnam.
“You come to Van Phuc with me
Silk clothing you wear elegant.”
Go to Van Phuc today, the first new village we hear all the silk and textile encountered an exciting atmosphere, the load of shops introduced Van Phuc village is set immediately with the first village colorful small cymbals . Van Phuc silk durable beautiful, to put on body that will find soft and gentle. The characteristic features and unique way is because sometimes the hand dexterity, the training, the people of Van Phuc.
Legend, Ms. La Thi Nga, a village girl, from Cao Bien made governor for my country. She has brought to the job with a textile raw product is silk russet, common. Later, she was a Royal citadel village. Go since the retina (16 centuries) Van Phuc textile trade is improving, developing strong and got a lot of unique, high quality as brocade, silk, gauze, ... with many lively, fine.

Until a host of Zac-ca, for the textile, silk, flowers are not easy, requiring people to Van Phuc research, explore, experiment more.

Who painted beautiful flowers, flower smart business, the textile goods to the same beautiful flowers real customers very popular, not weaving in time to sell. With flowers on the set, drawing any flower, what's, what word artists are Van Phuc do.

Before, until a server that Zac-camachine , Van Phuc artists phases flowers and flowers are the training and refinement. Currently, computer Zac-ca is only set of flowers with perforation-tone metal hook to pull up the flowers go, is still the principle set by the flowers of my money from hundreds of years, not only is someone pulling flowers same.
To create products Silk excellent, the Van Phuc operator has a process engineering complex includes many stages as I sew, sew a thread, sew textiles, dyeing stages. Each stage must be conducted in accordance with the regulations are quite stringent

Today, Van Phuc silk through generations, the artisans and textile workers have been constantly improved, advanced production techniques. By that, Van Phuc silk project in any category also reached the smooth, with soft colors that he, on the fine lines in the sunk, has elegant type, has brilliantly.

Over the generations, Van Phuc silk always kept the art of tradition. State, always decorated with matching, decorative street features plain, but always complex and anti-free mineral, final. Therefore, Van Phuc silk is not only popular in countries that have beyond the territory of Vietnam to the hands of the four trendy.

Vong village - a famous trade village in Hanoi

Vong village

Belong Dich Vong Ward, Cau Giay district, center of Hanoi about 8km to the northwest.

Vong Village includes the villages: Vong Tien,Vong Hau,Vong So,Vong Trung but only two villages: Vong Hau and Vong So make delicious Cốm.
Come to Hanoi, who do not remember a famous appetite present that tender rice . The first gift has just recently that gracious called "Cốm of Vong village”
The early autumn, walking in the area we see sweet growing rice break season alternating with grass smell, smell of home. Village people go round and break the rice for 24 hours to hand in the processing of the paddy seeds to Cốm.Making Com is not simple. Method of communication is always confidential: only the parents transmitted to the son, not to most people for the daughter because when you go get her husband's daughter will bring method to cook the other.
Talk about how make Cốm, of course many areas of the country that must recognize that no where do seeds cốm flexible and delicious in the Vong villages. People of Vong village who cook very elaborately. Type rice snow rise seeds that type make Com.There are many types: sticky fat varieties, Japanese sticky, flowers yellow sticky, sticky stations first, then ... Rice's daughter and then exposed to color. Then wait to ensure the rice grains (but is certainly green, not red, yellow) on the cut. Rice cutting on absolute or may not be beating, but pluck to golden paddy seeds leave. People that: secrets of the time with cốm take in the island said. All skill plus experience helped traditional village for cốm Vong very flexible, always have a fire, especially wood heater must be first special wood not used to wood or wood straw spots. The consequent need to lastly mirror light, thoroughly; pestle is not too heavy, which is all hands must not be delayed because cốm calming.

Making cốm

After completed, it will take to improve in the light most seeds cốm (cốm is the first fork). While the second cốm cốm is often all but three is not to complete the food is right, need to go through a stage is a more.
They get the rise seeding grind , socialize with water make a product green color and leaves them to cốm true for all hands. Once they finished, com is in a very thin piece of the banana leaves or lotus leaves and then assigned to bins load going to sell. Blue natural cốm plus artificial blue as a blue village for cốm Loop. Com village with a very thin, and the number of hands is appeased for the flavor of the rice.

Making cốm

Making cốm industry is very hard, a late, two early. The girls soon every Vong village the full Com load for sale. Com Vong cosset be sold from the hands pair of her village by village women as the salty, aromatic flavor com.
To enjoy the full flavor of cốm we must eat com, not include anythings. And not cốm have long been a popular food can not be lacking. In addition to eat, people still processing cốm many other dishes. First cốm itself. Cốm because a food may not be long to think of how compressed cốm, not to cốm landmark but still flexible and delicious.

Cốm

After this, people do the pie, grilled job media has thought out and a cốm grilled (pig grilled with cốm) eat dust, fat and fragrant. It is said that father cốm time to eat hot new enjoy the taste of it.

Bat Trang Pottery Village - A famous trade village in Vietnam

According to legend, the village of Bo Bat (Thanh Hoa) from the Ly, the Thang Long in the Bat Trang pottery ward along Red river.

First, the village is named Bach Tho Phuong, and then change the name of Bat Trang Ward, open a new later called Bat Trang. Pottery career here was prosperous from the Ly, Tran dynasty. According to the address of Nguyen Trai has noted: "Bat Trang village potter. Hue Cau village dye cloth ....". and "Bat Trang appertain Gia Lam district - Hue Cau appertain Van Giang district, two villages that supply it with state China is seventy of porcelain bowls, two plates and add hundreds of ..." .

A long time, Bat Trang pottery is export value. Surveys by the neck, is now the Ly, Tran dynasty, the Bat Trang has been exported to many places such as Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Portugal, France ... Dug through the port in Van Don (Quang Ninh), Hien stress (Hung Yen )..., we also met many kind Bat Trang ceramics.

Pottery items gem glaze, orchids glaze, solid men of Bat Trang is special. Such as bowls, dishes, monitor, pots, candlestick ... Bat Trang's past from a special style, and not with pottery as Tho Ha, Phu Lang, Huong Canh ...

From the remote past until today, Bat Trang is still hundreds of ceramic stove smoke release. Living labor commercial production here, from the life, always exciting. River station, boat crowded friend carrying coal, wood, clay is the raw material production to Bat Trang. The same boat in a series of product Bat Trang pottery from other nearby provinces, provincial distance. At the village, in any lane or hamlet , are found to enable all the employees, the mouse's, a glaze, transfer the product to the furnace, a grate.
Products rich pottery are presented in this house, the other hourse, this lane, other lane . Bat Trang is a manual of my most exciting of Thang Long ancient and present.

Villages are located along rivers, source of distasteful here to go exploring from Son Tay, Phuc Yen, Dong Trieu . Clay sources in Ho Lao, Truc Thon very good, white clay, smooth, under high temperature. Just say the individual processing clay for ceramics in Bat Trang have seen very elaborately. Carry on clay, because the system dipping tank containing filter tank. Clay is soaked in water for a few months of separation, to level nine, to it, fine in a tank containing, removing the filter down polished tank, filter that organic substances in the un-hot. Section clay fine, clean to deposit been transferred to the exposure tank. To here, white clay, smooth, viscidity as rice powder, bring new production on the pottery.

Tool production of furnaces include the table is turning. Talk to rotate the selected land, the workers sit , stamp table legs rotate, each hand to let the land, mouse over the comments into the bottle, bowl, plate. Mechanic's language as if they do manually, so that the products have the same high, as have to bury campus. Tomorrow this industry as very fine clay, and then pouring the gypsum mold to create the rustic ceramic products, is a network technology with ceramic village. Currently, the number of rows in ceramic hand mouse Bat Trang is maintained, but less. Most goods pouring molds, so create a high capacity for village hamlet. When pottery is wood dried, passed through the paint and glaze. Operator Bat Trang pottery has hand painted flowers, flowers leaves, birds, the material to decorate pottery on it increased beauty. Bat Trang pottery men this past rated the best in comparison with the other pottery in our country. Gem glaze, flowers glaze, solid glaze ... were the culture in Bat Trang. Secret phase glaze here do not easily pottery workers elsewhere are clones.
Through each of the producers, the workers Bat Trang improvements created different type of pottery kiln appropriate. From traditional style fireplace stove is ancient frog, to link, elected furnace, box furnace ... each kiln to suit each different product. Materials burn in furnace also changed according to each period. From the burning furnace with dry grass, then the wood, coal, is burning furnace experiments with electricity, by gas, has gradually improved product quality and lowering cost.
Today, techniques have been applied in many phases of pottery production, but private business is still burning stove to keep many faiths. Time burning furnace, come out the furnace, is the holy with pottery workers. Burn furnace technical decision quality pottery.
The ancient fork song said of Bat Trang bricks, those bricks which are classified as current in the furnace. As is made from good quality clay is in the bottle burn are ripe, so the Bat Trang bricks on very ancient swallowing, aged nine. Bat Trang Ceramic ancient usually for house construction, building pagodas, the turn shore wells, the village pond. The good bricks, ceiling construction, under the rainy and dry years, no fog, not erode, technical know enough of how the pottery workers.

Vietnamese Water Puppet - A form popular art in Vietnam

If you are ever in Hanoi it will be regretful to miss the Water Puppet Theater - even if you think you are not a puppet kind of person. Water Puppets literally means “puppets that dance on the water”. This show is not just geared for kids, but meant to delight adults as well.
History: 

Vietnamese Water Puppet originated from the Red River Delta of Vietnam in the tenth century. Some of the earliest troupes are in Nguyen Xa commune, Đông Hưng district, Thai Binh province. Water puppetry is deeply imbued with the cultural characteristics of the people of this area. This unique art first appeared around the 15th century, when post-harvest, artists who were also farmers would gather to perform and relax. The custom remains today in many localities in the Red River Delta such as Dao Thuc, Phu Da, Dong Ca, Nguyen Xa, Dong Ngu, Nhan Hoa and Nam Chan.
In ancient Vietnam, the rural Vietnamese believed that spirits controlled all aspects of their life, from the kitchen to the rice paddies. That is the reason why the farmers in this region devised a form of entertainment and worship to satisfy these spirits. Water puppetry is the lively creation of farmers who spent their days in flooded rice fields. At some point, they discovered that the water was an excellent medium for puppetry: it not only concealed the puppeteers' rod and string mechanisms, but it also provided exciting effects like waves and splashes.
When water puppetry became more popular, villages competed against each other with their puppet shows. This led puppet societies to be secretive and exclusive, including an initiation ceremony that involved drinking rooster blood.
So far this art form has been unique to North Vietnam. Tourists can enjoy this kind of art all days in a week at Thang Long Puppet Theatre, which is the most well known one in Ha Noi.

Performance

For over a thousand years, performers in Vietnamese Water Puppet Theater’s feet have always suffered in cold and wet condition. Water puppetry is performed in a chest-deep pool of water, with the water's surface as a stage. The puppeteers stand behind a screen and control the puppets using long bamboo rods and string mechanism hidden beneath the water surface.
The puppet is carved out of wood and often weighs up to 15 kg. A large rod supports the puppet under the water and is used by the puppeteers to control them. The appearance is of the puppets moving over the water. The puppets enter from either side of the stage, or emerge from the murky depths of the water. In the past when the rice fields were flooded the villagers would entertain each other using this puppet form.
A traditional Vietnamese orchestra provides background music accompaniment. Singers of Cheo (a form of opera) with origin in North Vietnam sing the songs which tell the story being acted out by the puppets. Performances of up to 18 short scenes are usually introduced by a pig-tailed bumpkin known as Teu, and accompanied by a small folk orchestra. The musicians and the puppets interact during performance; the musicians may yell a word of warning to a puppet in danger or a word of encouragement to a puppet in need.
Along with singing the atmosphere, while the decorations set the stage for each particula, traditional musical instruments like drums, wooden bells, cymbals, horns, two-string Chinese violins and flutes create r style of water puppetry. Researcher Nguyen Huy Hong believes that water puppetry combines sculpture, architecture, painting, music, stage and literature.

Content

The theme of the skits is rural and has a strong reference to Vietnamese folklore. It tells of day-to-day living in rural Vietnam and Vietnamese folk tales that are told older generation to younger generation. Of which stories of the harvest, of fishing and of festivals are highlighted.

The water also provides the best setting for the puppeteers' theme: day-to-day village life. Water puppets bring wry humor to scenes of farming, fishing, festival events such as buffalo fights, and children's games of marbles and coin-toss. Fishing turns into a game of wits between the fisherman and his prey, with the fisherman getting the short end (often capturing his surprised neighbor by mistake). Besides village life, scenes include legends and national history. Lion dogs romp like puppies while dragons exhale smoke and shoot sprays of water at the audience. Teu, a pig-tailed bumpkin, is the character who usually plays the role of introducing the performances. The introduction is always accompanied by a small folk orchestra. Spotlights and colorful flags adorn the stage and create a festive atmosphere.

Legends and national history are also told through short skits. Many of the skits, especially those involving the tales of day-to-day living, often have a humorous twist.
Water puppetry has always gone hand in hand with festivals. Each Lunar March 13, Bo Duong villagers hold village festival to commemorate their tutelary god. Aside from worship, the festival is also an opportunity for villagers to relax by watching water puppetry, taking in fireworks displays, flying kites and entering cock-fighting contests. The festival always attracts thousands of attendants. Village festivals are great wind down for farmers and artists alike.

Source: Vietnam-beauty

Festival "Run pigs" - festivals of the Vietnamese new year beginning

History festival running pig

The area of the festival "Run pigs" is told from the Hung Vuong. Then Cao Son Dai Vuong (the media and the brother of the Son Tản Vienna Thánh) to deploy it vision, with foot rest in the village. The aged in the villages would be presented recently to the military longing spirit tướng agree with this a condition to be very fast to do that is a military battlefield. So people have a complete dinner meals in a period as quickly as possible. Khao meals per day than whether it has met all the food in the region, especially with many pork. Once completed, except sight, Cao Son Dai Vuong on heaven. To please remember the spirit of the Prime Minister, where he farms and people have built temples called temple or temple Cao Son Dai Vuong. From then onwards, mồng seven days in January, the organization of the temple, in a ceremony on the Ministry of heaven. Ceremony "pigs Run" was held to remember the soldiers languish. "Run" here is the contest see any larger, biên ceremony in the fastest.
The changes of history, Le "Run pig" may have been forgotten. But from 1991 to present, Dien village (often known by the name Duyen yet) restored and maintained regularly with the two this one is not. Until 1999 the house is often ranked historical cultural national level, historical resistance. And in 2009 the first "pig run" to be a list of cultural values-free objects need to be preserved to celebrate 1000 years of Thang Long - Hanoi
"Running pigs" past and present
In formula signed by the old man, a "pig run" usually occur between 5 Giáp: North, Sanskrit, Nguyen, đoái, East - 5 Hamlet equivalent today. Pigs are selected in the hamlet of selected purchased from the previous year, to a family and is quite prestigious for breeding weight reached nearly a dozen. Before a ceremony for the 10 days, animals eat porridge is sticky and fragrant bath water several times. Twenty-one man is chosen to be the team healthy, and if the wife had suffered life "isolation" from the previous festival.
To date in celebration, the year of Giap Rước in courtyard of house in front. Village selected two aged but healthy, the family crowded enough, well-off the product aged. Two of the aged in turn will try to lift each other up scholarships and then kick a coin into the trap of crowds. Who one is the money that the winner in both years. Then the team will contest "Running pigs" with the operation of the meat and placed offerings as quickly as possible. When the drumbeat of the store on time to complete only last for three minutes. Tray offering will include nine items: The pig tail hold covered a fat get in the stomach; TE shoulder (pork shoulder), TE butt (pork butt), Bear o (the Sun Co.), Bear abdomen (the cartilage in the abdomen), under; information, viscera and betel and areca a disk, incense, alcohol. All must be beautiful dexterity. After the ceremony the action is finished, the judges will sometimes pigs each to check for cuts. If the cut is made great points will be deducted. Individual pigs are broken guts the tray which has been considered as dirty and not be brought up in in the home.
Today, the "Run pigs" do not like to kì days. But still keep the celebration of identity, meaning and operation. No borders as 5 days before, the village divided into three teams with similar hamlet. The day before the official place name in the field house, the hamlet "drill" multiple times and eating together. "The goal of surgery is to try training skills, but actually it means apparent to the way she hamlet wonder, happy together, more united, says provost Mừng, the first treatment said of Hamlet 2. Available in hamlet 1, families with children in remote villages in all of this. Mr. Dong Minh Luc - University lecturers Architecture Hanoi sharing: "On New Year that we are family, their mac. Holidays also "Running pigs" are given the opportunity to strengthen still further the hamlet, not in my family is not enough of. "

This is one of "The pigs" are waiting for the ceremony

Perfume for the bathroom "he pigs"

The first product on the tray ceremony

Achievements after ... 1 minute 50 seconds!

Source:VNmedia and Report military people

Quan Ho Bac Ninh - The traditional vietnamese music

For the Bac Ninh people, festivals not only allow them to highlight their own village's specialties, such as ceramics, folk painting, wrestling, kite parades, or bird contest, among a great many other things, but also their common prized heritage, the quan ho singing tradition.

From the past till now…

Ca quan ho, also called quan ho Bac Ninh singing, originated around the 13th century, and has traditionally been associated with the spring festivals that follow the celebration of the Vietnamese New Year. According to the tradition, only young people used to sing quan ho songs, as the major body of song texts centers on the subject of love and sentimental desire among young adults. Nowadays, many elderly singers participate in the singing as well in response to the quan ho movement initiated by the provincial government. Originally, quan ho singing were exchange songs between two mandarins' families. Gradually, it spread out and became popular among the northern people. Groups were formed just for singing, and many marriages were formed at these get-together. After centuries, it became the most significant Vietnamese folk-song type.

Characteristics.

Unlike the simple lullabies, which were inspired by daily works, quan ho was always searching for new content and new reforms. Virtually, all songs heard in festivals express personal subject like addressing the beautiful nature and the satisfaction after harvesting crops together. Love in quan ho is not sad and pessimistic as it is in lullabies (ru) or in calls (hò). On the contrary, the tune of this type is rich in tunes and rhythms because it received all the influences of lullabies, poem recitation, etc.

There are four major airs in quan ho singing:

• Giọng sổng (transistor air)
• Giọng vặt (diverse air)
• Giọng hãm (recitative air)
• Giọng bỉ (tunes borrowed from other sources)

The most popular quan ho songs, "qua cau gio bay", "treo len quan doc" (also known as "ly cay da"), "se chi luon kim", were sung in Giọng vặt. (transistor air)

If you did listen or watch a quan ho performance, you will see that it is an antiphonal singing tradition in which men and women take turns singing in a challenge-and-response fashion drawing on a known repertoire of melodies. In general, an initial "challenge phrase" (câu ra) is sung by a pair of female singers, followed by a "matching phrase" (câu đối) from the men, which repeat the melody of the challenge phrase. Once the order is reversed, the men will issue their own challenge phrase with a different melody.

One of the quan ho features that have endured through time is the proper verbal and poetic introduction to every tune. Quan ho singers are not only appreciated for their singing ability, but also for their skill in leaving an impression of their gracefulness and literary adeptness on the audience. Usually, one of the singers will say something to praise the opposing pair and express how fortunate her/his pair has been to be allowed to sing with them before reciting the verses of the song. Not only provides listeners with the basic content of the song, the rhetoric used in the introduction contribute to create the impression of a theatrical act.

The singers also imitated the musical sound, the sound of rice grinding, crying as well as replying in the tunes that their opposing pair had used. The singing ends with songs in the farewell category- a feature that has never been changed as a sense of a completion.

Instrumental accompaniment is welcomed by quan ho singers in some villages. The mono chord is the most common instrument, followed by the bamboo flute and the 36-stringed hammered dulcimer.

Trying to make cultural sense of the quan ho tradition as it is practiced today is not an easy task. Quant ho singing has undergone several changes with regard both to its context and content as its practitioners continue to search for ways to put the puzzle together, while realizing that missing pieces may never be found. Yet, the Bac Ninh locals believe that quan ho singing has always been the window through which outside people can see who they really are- the director of the quan ho troupe maintains.

If you want to hear of them directly, you can of Lim on 13 January every year according to lunar calendar in Tien Du district, Bac Ninh province. With popular games such as champion, wrestling, chess struggle, enough money, and weaving, cooking rice.
Lim of the Association is a heaven of sound, poetry and music space to the thought of fermentation. The new seven new clothes, the three important hats, fringe hanging at both side of a connical hat,silk camisole range of gravel, composed of six cells, turban, shirt pairs of Gam ... as containing all the hidden spring of life of people and create things. How's the game of their regional Lim also is a unique game, each gesture has to communicate it in a shade higher culture. The Lim always leave in the heart of what a beautiful area lam. Cac old man Lim, Lim said that Vietnam is still conservation of Lim's past, but alternating the mark of cultural market. Lim who still sing them on the hills and under the boat Lim, but singing with microphone through broadcaster. Space is no longer grace the "cramped" in a limited space for both the song galaxy, all of heaven and hear the spring.

Source: Vietnam- beauty and some pages

Hanoi cream season - a hanoi culture feature

Summer to bring about the muggy heat, the hot wind made it easy to anger me eat the cream of 1 cooling solution is not bad. Cream long Hanoi still kept the ancient definition, have something to go to strangers. Now appear more different kinds of ice cream but the flavor of ice cream Trang Tien surely remain in the many Hanoi. Indeed, in the hot summer days walking through streets Trang Tien see the looks of it crowded. While no variety of ice cream: only Cốm cream, cocoa and cinnamon building but it must still sell the legs are always in hand when customers increasingly pulled into the east. Have no appetite for ice cream? Perhaps with Hanoi Trang Tien street has been associated with ice cream and only ice cream Trang Tien although recently appeared many kinds of ice cream and ice cream shops moi. Many people of the remote provinces to Hanoi are looking for money to the cream , the first ice-cream skin, taste sweeter. From young to old, all love each other, couples ... also different in the Trang Tien eat ice cream stands all sealed road. Perhaps in the air that people stop automatically find delicious ice cream more than cool (near the Ho Guom lake) and simply make it comfortable people do not hon.That comfortable when cream confection future give us more experience so exposed. The child laughs, join eat ice cream, the old man in mom occasionally eat the new 1 piece (too cold for sure) is far from the spouse and the other said laughing a corner. Looks like one too, but noise and light a peace between Hanoi noise changes by the minute is the second peace. I love a Hanoi, Hanoi a hot day in the summer season but has a sweeter cream, ice cream season is a fist someone ride, the drop on the long street noise and enliven ...

Cheo, a popular traditional music performance

There’s a folk verse in Vietnam that tells about a lazy guy who does not want to do anything but could not resist the attraction of a Cheo play, which has played a very important role in Vietnamese cultural life for a long time and is considered the oldest and most popular folk music performance in Vietnam.

When did the Cheo appear?

Cheo is believed to have originated in the 11th century, and has its roots in village festivals in the Red River Delta.

After crops harvest, the farmers hold the festivals which include a series of activities such as plays, Cheo singing, etc. to exchange the information as well as to make new relationships. Since then, many national Cheo repertoires which are considered treasures of the traditional stage are created, expamples are Truong Vien, Kim Nhan, Luu Binh - Duong Le and Quan Am Thi Kinh…

Performance

Like many ancient performance arts, Cheo is an oral one with stories composed by anonymous author-performers and orally “passed on” to fellow performers. In this folk art performance, stories which can be legends, poetry, history or even daily life are the most important, “whenever there are stories, we have Cheo”.

Also, brought into the play are acrobatic scenes and magic. Cheo tells tales of chiefs, heroes and lovely maidens and offers an eclectic mix of romance, tragedy and comedy. These stories are performed by folk songs with pantomime, instrumental music and dances, combined with instructive or interpretative sketches.

Beside the stories, the characters are the soul of a play. Like Tuong, Cheo

Cheo buffoon

uses standard stock characters -usually a hero, a heroine and a clown- who are instantly recognizable to the audience. Cheo stories may sometimes be romantic or tragic but the clown or buffoon always comment on the action in an amusing or satirical way as well as to mock pompous, ridiculous or dishonest characters. Providing a link between the performers and the audience, he shoots shafts of satire at evil-doers, such as ignorant witchdoctors, greedy landlords, or arrogant mandarins. A couple of buffoons may appear on stage, for instance, the master in a flowing gown and his servant in a short coat and carrying a stick, each speaking the language and behaving in the ways of his class. The buffoon might perform right at the initial scene of a play, carrying a torch or a megaphone and provoking wild laughter of the audience. The clowns present a comic portrayal of social life, with ridiculous, satirical words and gestures, and reduce the audience to tears of laughter.

A Cheo play can not be complete without stage. The play could be put on the stage of a large theatre, but also be performed successfully on one or two bed mats spread in the middle of a communal house. The Cheo drum was traditionally used like a church bell with magical sounds. Upon hearing, villagers cannot resist coming to see the play. The costumes, make-up and gestures are very simple and base on each character of the play.

At present, Cheo is an integral part of Vietnamese theatre and attract not only people in the countryside and in towns but the foreign spectators as well.
Some intersting Cheo:

• Bài ca giữ nước
• Chu Mãi Thần
• Đồng tiền Vạn Lịch
• Hoàng Trìu kén vợ
• Kim Nham
• Lưu Bình Dương Lễ
• Nghêu sò ốc hến
• Quan Âm Thị Kính
• Tuần Ty Đào Huế
• Từ Thức gặp tiên
• Trần Tử Lệ
• Trương Viên

Source: VietNam Beauty and Wikipedia

Banh cuon Thanh Tri - famous food in Hanoi

Bánh cuốn (spring-rolls) Thanh Tri are made from rice fields hour, eight aromatic, make thin as paper. Food that has become a special favorite of this region's foreign.

Called spring-rolls but not rolling anything out, it is spring-rolls Thanh Tri. That only leaves the pure bread was thin as paper, tender as rise seeding ranked succinct short day each class to each class in a bin, on the train leaves lotus leaves or banana. Retailers are the bread basket on the top, on the hand that sometimes go around thirty-six city wards of Hanoi.

Department surely cake by rolling along the flat in Hanoi mượt attenuation is very fine grinding. The stone mortar on the face of transmission received glass stones, wooden handle meetings up in black water, from this life to the other variables are flexible aromatic rice grains into flour first white water course. Rice must Reserved hour type fields, eight aromatic. Not so with the certain not book from rice cakes imported most flexible Thailand. Stove rinse cake kitchen must be rolling than to be catch fire easily No one just north of a kitchen Code cake. At least three red kitchen fire. Bone rice flour are assessed carefully: crushed cake too wishy-washy, but special too, cake thickness you eat raw gas, such interest to a longer one. Items back salt powder, resulting fabrics are on campus. These cover the area. Then the second pot, which is the third. Back to the first pot, shake horizontal one, a sheet of raw rice fragile to be asked. Delete a billion fat for Balloons and fold again. Specifically continue. Bone meal with bread bins and any wires. Usually the driver, the Thanh Tri rinse fire in the wheel. Scratch cakes sold in the morning to Hanoi for the Day breakfast food. Lower down the barrel under lamppost street corner, vendors, inventor read his son. Eat people hunker around bread bins. Some smell of smooth green leaves, cinnamon pieces red grilled, opalescent cake pieces, all for profit in the country period.
Some Adress abou Thanh Tri's spring roll:

- 66 To Hien Thanh Street
- Hoe Nhai street and some treets in vietnam

Hanoi Tour
Take part in a hands-on cooking class in the heart of Hanoi's Old
Quarter. Visit the local market to learn about Vietnamese
ingredients before proceeding to the home of a true Hanoian who
learned her culinary skills from her grandmother, a cook for
the French elite in the 1930's. After visiting a local market
to buy the day's ingredients, learn how to prepare and cook
true northern Vietnamese cuisine before sitting down to enjoy a
delectable meal.

Tran Quoc Pagoda - Ancient pagoda in Hanoi - Vietnam

From the garden by Bach Thao, throught Hoang Hoa Tham - a streets dreaming of Hanoi capital: Co Ngu Road, now a Thanh Nien (Youth street) street , is located between every two plants and two green lake still waves. Two days this ancient lake is just one of many names: Xac Cao, Kim Nguu (buffalo Gold), Lang Bac (billow), Dam Dam (Mu Suong pond).
400 years ago, people built Co Ngu path (that is maintained after the reading of Co Ngu ) prevent a sometimes this is a small Truc Bach , the lake is a large West.


With an area of 466ha, 17km perimeter, around the many temples and pagodas, landscape, west, was a source of inspiration for many test doctor. In the XVIII century, Nguyen Duc Quy has poetry's West lake :
Boat containing lunar đài short that snow
Institute integrated Diep flower dew pond
Green lotus architecture in lunar wobble
Bluish green of yellow flowers and flat direction tomorrow.

The poem war written by Tay Ho Nguyen Huy is a the good poem warm national character and sing the praise Tay Son dynasty in inspiration before a beautiful West lake.
Musicians Trinh Cong Son in a way to Hanoi that encountered under a Western lake sunset images "Gold water quiver - shore is calling , curtain of dew miss, Sam Cam brid clap to fly sun" and creation a beautiful songs.
From Co Ngu way with lead to a gore is a west side edges, it's called qui beach turtles, also called Kim Ngu beach. On the main beach of this king of the Ly was built Thuy Hoa temple make holiday place. The king of the Tran built Ham Nguyen to the still landscape. Background to the temple is now the location of the temple to the oldest type of country: Tran Quoc pagoda.

This original pagoda is Khai Quoc Pagoda (Mo nuoc) from the morning, the Ly Nam De (544 - 548) in the Red river, northeast of Yen Hoa ward is Yen Hoa Phu, near the Long Bien bridge now. At the Khai Quoc pagoda, under the Ly Nhan Tong dynasty, Y Lan - queen mother - have open vegetarian regale the vereran bonze of hight vitues. She is often go to pagoda with all the monks converse.
To the Le Thai Tong (1434 - 1442) was renamed An Quoc Pagoda is. Every year on the Red river water to erode error waterfront. Therefore, in 1615, to the King Le Kinh Tong, Yen Phu village moved to the pagoda Kim Ngu hillock. Dynasty under King Le Hy Tong (1676 - 1705) contains all the renamed Tran Quoc pagoda, the horizontal lacquered broad with word "Tran Quoc Tu" hanging in the home's current main. Period Trinh Le, where is chosen as the Tran Quoc also chaplain for the rest when walking in a Western lake . Year 1842, King Thieu Tri visited the pagoda renamed Tran Bac, but people still familiar name was Tran Quoc Pagoda.
Tran Quoc Pagoda is not only proud of thickness of the historic building but also on the high growth and have attached to the temple. The bonze and powwow as Khuong Viet, Thao Duong, Thong Bien, Vien Hoc, Tinh Khong, Tran Tu Uyen acceptance of or are autonomous in this pagoda. Year 580, The bonze Tinidalu from India to Vietnam stoped at a time.
Year 1069, King Ly Thanh Tong to take military attack Chiem Thanh. Chiem king fishing is Che Cu and some prisoners, including a very knowledgeable professor of Buddhist business. Access to resources is the new Meditation outspan Jl. Ly Tong Thao room of the National Road and invited his place in the pagoda of Nations, which opens Meditation Gender Thao Street in our country. The pagoda is also the home of Meditation to create transmission of life in Vietnam Hau Le.
Since the move to the song Yellow, Tran Quoc pagoda has many times in the set and restored. Year 1624, under Le Dynasty king Spirit Tong, Tam court security, court directions and missing roads are built. By the year 1639, construction of three, logistics and road corridors described property. Right of to Dai Bai's home had stele recorded the restoration that set up by Nguyen Xuan Chinh - the firdr doctoral cadidate

After a time of war is destruction, by the broken beer by Dr. discipline convenience in 1815, the year 1813 to year 1815, Tran Quoc Pagoda is disposal is Khoan The organization restored the main electricity, the missing instructions, street money, corridors, steeple, road logistics, and đắp Buddha and a large cast bell. Tran Quoc Pagoda is one of the little temple in the North have pho-compatible import of wooden tables niet steel gold beautiful. Date Posted pagoda has two questions for:

Sallow coach through the Open face non-stop river to Meditation

Before the temple door seal for more than two columns:
- After the rain phen wind Asia Europe, became stable of stone, tennis last column trời Tran Quoc Pagoda.
- As an interesting talk flowers are perspicacity, soon the empty bell, wandering the Buddha's hand.

Garden pagoda, along with the written many trees in cool, a linden was provined from the branches of which 25 centuries before the Buddha-like of Qingdao, is India's R. Prasat bring a gift to Vietnam in 1958.
Natural landscape surrounding the silent temple lotus bloom season between white, red on the face of a Western country to call for people to air each of the feedback is stored in the lines of poetry Ba Huyen Thanh Quan:
Tran Bac with weed oil
Chanh our country, trying to think that pain
What a shower cast repatriation Ngu
May clouds of sticky clothes in style!

Nostalgia about hanoi peddled wares

For people living away from home, it sure no one country one breed. When someone referred to his memory, they image to customs, customs, festivals ... remember that the landscape, where their people have born and raised. I own, when memory of the homeland, I always remember to taste sweeter, simple peddled wares, of empty, where I have lived 30 years ago.

Born in Hanoi, since I was little I grew up with the herald of the hawker. The retail hours that not simply as the herald, it has become a tone, a part of life where I have lived the childhood.

If anyone lived in the surely have used the last good bridesmaid - shrimp paste. On the summer , streets shade of Sau trees, the sound of cicada the rich as a summer with the broken rice, Simple carry soft noodle , succinct. Under the original plans of selling her goods with broken rice, noodle place rattan or bamboo frame. A side of mud, beans, shrimp paste, aromatic vegetables, a side of the pan, bowls, spoons small. Just a few thousand now you have a lunch appetite, to eat. The short white thread broken rice, noodle, flexible software with the paste to squessze lemon juice, chilli scented very difficult forgotten. Fry bridesmaid pieces to the outside to the gold the bowel top, soft and fat. Just a cheap food, just delicious but full of nutrition.


Who has the age of poetry in Hanoi still sure you buy your candy sweeter drag. I also remember the small, I often supplication for his father spit hair deep prize cents to buy candy. Every hear the herald's first medical candy drag street children is flood radiate coil, be in an eager bustle. Many request, requiring 10 is but the child may only have 2 child is money to buy candy. Taste of the delicious candy new, attractive young flood us how! Now every time I think to feel the sweetness of the sugar, circuit house, fragrance of ginger in the candy.

Then the summer. Lotus flowers bloom all over the lake surface. The smooth leaves of green lotus spread across the lake. When it is time to Cốm season. Perhaps the individual, the character of Ha Thanh is carry cốm. Rattan or bamboo frame sometimes with a few flounder on the mix of her and bring her cốm fragrant incense go across 36 wards uproarious city. The seeds cốm flat, flat. He that color, smooth cốm by those who look like gems makes it difficult to forget the dishes cốm Hanoi. Government's green cốm have a concept of color, blue com. Cốm appetite and want to be long packages in lotus leaves picked fresh from the morning. Now that the leaves are closed the morning dew grain glitter, reagent of heaven. Cốm packages in lotus leaves 2 times and the external force in the fiber straw yellow sticky him. Cốm is not only a gift but dissipated into a gift to bring the full flavor of the very individual Hanoi.

The Hanoi still wandering outside the city and then to the marijuana to carouse simple. To winter, the cold - frozen to the bone. Until now I still remember the long cold last winter in Hanoi. The cold cut the skin, cut meat. But the Hanoi still wandering outside the city and then to the marijuana to carouse simple. Only a small table, two chairs, three things, a few cups and a jug of that you have a warm tea. Tea were raped to be to the average, in my skin with water only straw should always hot. The heat has just enough moisture to enjoy but do water and only in comparison. Clothes, caps, towels, two hand embracing the tea cup for moisture, slot whimper as the cold, find the sweet-fat candy bar at last, all the animals that drink the tea cup.

"Hanoi street, Hanoi human will know how sad you are missing out peddled wares".

Of spring, growing fruit trees . Hanoi flowers bloom the same race, showing the flowers throughout the village along the lake west. At this town Hanoi as flaring with oddments load color. I would dare sure that one will not have a place in Vietnam and the world as a type of flower sales very poetic, very romantic as in Hanoi. Fresh flowers full color, all types hold loads at the end of carrying village girls, village like the full color butterflies flying around town eel crowded. And many, many of the items in the peddled wares. Each item has its attractive features of their own, but all create beautiful soft, ancient Hanoi in the eyes of people in Vietnam as well as international guests. Street, Hanoi people will know how sad you are missing out peddled wares.

Hanoi Tour

Theses pecially-designed Hanoi day trips focus on the diversity and
history of this fascinating city and coincide with the 1000
year celebration of the capital in 2010. Led by a history
professor or a local university student, you will gain insight
in the past millennium of Hanoi and glimpse into what is in
store for the future.