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Literature
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Vietnamese literature was developed at an early date. It includes two major components which have developed simultaneously and are profoundly interrelated : Folk literature and written literature. Vietnamese folk literature came into being very early and had a profound effect on the spiritual life of the Viets. The folk literature always praised beauty, humanism, love of godness, and contributed to the formation of a national sense. Legends, fairy tales, humorous stories, folk songs, epics... have a tremendous vitality and have lived on today. Written literature first appeared around the 10th century. It had a leading role and bore the main traits of Vietnamese literature. From the 10th to the 15th century, literary works were written in Han (classical Chinese) and Chu Nom. But since the 16th century, Chu Nom literature became increasingly popular, and held a prime position by the early 18th century. Well-known works written in Chu Nom included Chinh Phu Ngam by female poet Doan Thi Diem, Kieu Story by Nguyen Du and the Chu Nom poems of female poet Ho Xuan Huong. These works were the cream of Vietnamese literature. In the 20th century, the country's literature was written in Vietnamese Quoc Ngu (Romanized national language). Vietnamese literature thereby developed quickly in terms of quantity, genre and form. Prominent in prose were Tat Den by Ngo Tat To, Bi Vo by Nguyen Hong, Buoc Duong Cung and short stories by Nguyen Cong Hoan, short stories by Nam Cao, Giong To and other novels by Vu Trong Phung. Poetry also developed vigorously, culminating in the new poetry movement with a generation of famous authors such as : The Lu, Pham Huy Thong, Xuan Dieu, Luu Trong Lu, Huy Can, To Huu.... Traditionally, Vietnamese literature always featured patriotism, national pride and humanism. It was not by chance that great cultural personalities such as Nguyen Trai, Nguyen Du and Ho Chi Minh were also humanists.
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Vovinam - Viet vo dao
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The founder of Vovinam - Martial arts Viet is master Loc Nguyen. In his younger years he was training traditional Vietnamese martial arts. He read books about history, arts, health, philosophy and religion. He united all his experiences in a new martial art and philosophy. The variety of the sources is reflected in the variety of the techniques. In 1938, master Loc Nguyen introduced Vovinam to the public. Vovinam spread the world by Vietnamese emigrating from Vietnam mostly over France. After master Loc Nguyen death, 1960 master Sang Le took worldwide responsible for the further development and the worldwide distribution of Vovinam.
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Geomancy
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Today, feng shui is practiced not only at Asia, but also by Westerners. However, with the passage of time and feng shui's popularization in the West, much of the knowledge behind it has been lost in translation, not paid proper attention to, frowned upon, or scorned.Robert T. Carroll sums up what feng shui has become in some cases:"... feng shui has become an aspect of interior decorating in the Western world and alleged masters of feng shui now hire themselves out for hefty sums to tell people such as Donald Trump which way his doors and other things should hang. Feng shui has also become another New Age "energy" scam with arrays of metaphysical products ... offered for sale to help you improve your health, maximize your potential, and guarantee fulfillment of some fortune cookie philosophy."
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Tropical landscape
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HaLong Bay (literally: "Descending Dragon Bay"; Vietnamese: Vịnh Hạ Long) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and a popular travel destination, located in QuangNinh province, Vietnam. Administratively, the bay belongs to HaLong City, CamPha town, and part of VanDon district. The bay features thousands of limestone karsts and isles in various sizes and shapes. HaLong bay is a center of a larger zone which includes BaituLong bay to the northeast, and Catba islands to the southwest. These larger zones share similar geological, geographical, geomorphological, climate, and cultural characters. HaLong Bay has an area of around 1,553 km2, including 1,960 islets, most of which are limestone. The core of the bay has an area of 334 km2 with a high density of 775 islets. The limestone in this bay has gone through 500 million years of formation in different conditions and environments. The evolution of the karst in this bay has taken 20 million years under the impact of the tropical wet climate. The geo-diversity of the environment in the area has created biodiversity, including a tropical evergreen biosystem, oceanic and sea shore biosystem. HaLong Bay is home to 14 endemic floral species and 60 endemic faunal species.
