Vietnam is one of the beautiful countries in Southeast Asia with an anciently culture. Vietnam’s terrain is very diverse according to the natural areas. Also, Vietnam has a tropical monsoon climate in the south with only two seasons: rain season from mid May to mid September, and the dry season from mid October to mid April, and monsoon climate in the north with four seasons :spring, summer, autumn and winter. And Vietnam has a lot of famous places to visit.
Vietnam is a country with a curved shape like the letter “S”, is on the Southeast Asia. It adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the east, bordered with China in the north, Laos and Cambodia in the west, and the Gulf of Thailand in the south-west.
Vietnam has very diverse cultures, rich and imbued by 54 ethnic groups live together in a territory. Besides, Vietnam's culture was much influenced by the Chinese culture and the rice civilization of the people of Southeast Asia. Special point in this culture is the ancestor worship. It is the custom of worshiping of the people who is dead, especially the ancestors. For Vietnamese, it's almost become a religion; every family has an altar for their ancestor. In the Vietnamese people, to ancestral worship is very seriously. When building a house, in a wedding day, having a child, go to a different place to live and to go to an examination ,..., Vietnamese people are burning incense, making offerings to ancestors and to report to ancestors and ask for bless, or to give thanks when the job has been finished successfully. The essence of ancestor worship from the Vietnamese people is the trust of living as well as the deaths are closely related and support each other. Progeny visit, and report to the ancestors. While their ancestors protecti...
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.... Another scenic from the north is the One Pillar Pagoda. Every time you travel to the north, you’ll always want to go to this pagoda. The famous scenic in the Central that tourists at home and abroad visited are Ha Long Bay, Phong Nha Cavern, and Hue - the old capital of Vietnam. In the South, we have Nha Trang – where Miss Universe contest in 2008 has been hosted. Another famous place in the south is Da Lat. It is a very famous place to go in the hot and wet summer, because the weather is very nice. It’s always cool, sunny; sometimes there is a bit of shower, and foggy. It’s like a different world to everyone.
The landscapes of Vietnam are beautiful, Vietnamese people are friendly and hospitable. And Vietnam has a long-time culture tradition; it also has more than four thousand years of history. If you have a chance to go to Asia, don't forget to visit Vietnam.
they have some similarities and differences between Vietnam and the US, such as education, food and social rules. The education system in the United States put the students as the center, efforts and ensure student needs are supported. Food processing in Vietnam is an important indispensable in daily life, but Americans do not spend a lot of time to cook. Society in Vietnam many prejudices and have strict than Americans, they respect ism of personal freedom more than other countries.
The Vietnam War was a war over communism that started in 1950, when Ho Chi Minh, the national leader of Vietnam, introduced a communist government into North Vietnam. In 1954 it was decided to split the country at the 17th parallel, and was ruled under opposing governments, Bao Dai leading the south and Ho Chi Mihn the north. North Vietnam went to war with South Vietnam with the north being supported by Russia and China, as they were also Communist countries, and the south being supported by Britain and the USA.
Nguyễn, Văn Huy, and Laurel Kendall. Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit. Berkeley: U of California in Association with American Museum of Natural History, New York, and Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Hanoi, 2003. Print.
Ancestor worship was very important to the kings and nobles that ruled the Huang He River Valley civilization. They brought food and wine to temples as a sign of worship the ancestors and when a person died and their soul went to the afterlife (heaven) priests would write various peoples questions into oracle bones and hold a hold something hot over the bone to make cracks appear...
The Vietnam war was a war fought against the uprise of communism in South-East Asia from 1955 to 9175. The Soviet Union, China and other communist allies supported the North Vietnamese army against the South army who was allied with United States, South Korea, Australia and Thailand. The war affected Australia’s society as whole is many ways,
The story focuses on her great-grandfather, who was in disapproval of the French occupation of Vietnam, but still excelled at his job as a Mandarin under the puppet imperial court, fearing persecution of his family if he were to resign. In this section, the author also mentions more about the how the values of confusion had influenced the Vietnamese people in attempts to justify her great grandfather’s
Vietnam is a nation in southeast asia it is on the eastern edge of the Indochinese peninsula it had been under french colony since the 19th century. The Vietnam war started in 1954 but there conflict had stretched back several decades. After the communist forces had taken power in the north, armed conflict began between northern and southern armies it had continued until a prescient battle at Dien Bien Phu that ended in a victory for northern Viet minh forces. The french loss at
The colonialism of which the Vietnamese suffered for over a century was partially caused by their own intolerance. French interest in Vietnam began in the 16th century, as the rest of Europe began an obsession with Asian goods, and Christian missionaries were looking to convert natives. In Vietnam, priests and traders found their work to be impossible, as V...
Throughout Vietnam’s history geography has play a role during it and because of it’s location, climate, soil it was an ideal place for farming which would soon attract invaders. The Chinese, French ,and Japanese all wanted something from Vietnam which included agriculture abundance, colonial possessions, and natural resources. They all controlled Vietnam at this time. Japan surrendered when vietminh declared it’s independence and the United States did not support this independence. The French and Vietminh went into war where the french had lost and Vietnam was divided ( French took control of
As the sun set on the nineteenth century and the dawn of the twentieth century rose, the small, resource-rich country of Vietnam grew increasingly tired of French imperial rule in its homeland. For decades French colonialism had exploited the Vietnamese countryside to build up and provide for her own nation. “[These] colonizers declared that they were serving the Indochinese peoples by bringing material advancement and moral uplift - by performing, in short, a ‘civilizing mission.’” (Lawrence 11). However, only a small percent of Vietnamese elites actually benefited from these reforms. The rural Vietnamese peasantry, which accounted for the bulk of the nation’s total population, endured increasingly greater hardships, such as food shortages
Vietnam has a very rich and cultural diverse background dating all the way back to 1066 when William the Conqueror invaded and paved the way for English colonization. The French had been colonizing since the 19th century. The French role in Vietnams history is critical; they started out by bringing these simple peasants to the latest technology of farming and hunting (Yancey 37). The French helped these people out greatly in the beginning, but like all stories of occupation go they just got worse. They started forcing rules and laws on the people of Vietnam. Thus started the First Vietnam War, also known as the Indochina War between France and Vietnam. "The French possessed military superiority, but the Vietnamese had already the hearts and minds of the country. (38). Even from the beginning the Vietnamese had the odds to there favor. The French looked at the wars in numbers and how many lost on each side. They gathered from all the battles that they were winning because the Vietnamese casualties far outweighed the French; nonetheless they were wrong. To a certain point the French were fighting a game that they could not win at any cost. The French had the military superiority but the Vietnamese had the manpower and the Guerilla tactics. The Indochina War ended with French loosing terrible at Dienbienphu, where a whole French garrison was wiped out.
Indochina, modernly known as the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is located on the border of the eastern Indochinese peninsula and it occupies, according to the online encyclopedia (encyclopedia.com), about 331,000 kilometers squared, where in 1987, 25% of that land was under cultivation. Vietnam is bordered by the South China Sea, the Gulf of Thailand, and Gulf of Tonkin; and it is alongside China, Laos, and Cambodia. Hanoi, Vietnam’s capital since the nation’s reunification, is located in the northeast; and Vietnam’s largest city, Ho Chi Minh City, also known as Saigon, is located in the southeast of Vietnam. However, before becoming independent from Imperial China in 938 AD, Vietnam’s capital was “Đại La”, where it was located in present-day Hanoi. Additionally, the northern part of Vietnam is mainly composed of highlands and the Red River Delta; and the southern part of Vietnam is divided into coastal lowlands, large forests, and mountains of the “Annamite Range”. Vietnam’s official language is Vietnamese, and their largest ethnic group in Vietnam is the Kinh people, which takes about 86% of the nation’s population.
The French’s began to colonize Vietnam in 1874. The Vietnamese people gave the French a hard time during the “Pacification Period.” During this time the French tried to gain control of Vietnamese rebel groups and the Chinese, who also wanted to obtain Vietnam. The French divided Vietnam into three different parts. The southern part of Vietnam included two regions called Cochinchina and Annam. The northern part of Vietnam included a region called Tonking. Most of the rebellions took place in Tonking and Annam. The French were in Vietnam because of Economic reasons but, Catholic missionaries also wanted to convert all the people of Asia to Catholicism. Also the French wanted to spread their culture within Vietnam and teach the Vietnamese people about French literature, language, and history. After this period of time France focused on modernizing Vietnam and bringing in rail roads, bridges, and highways. They also forced labor and taxed the Vietnamese people.
The Vietnam War started from 1954 to 1975. The War was located in Southeast Asia in North and South of Vietnam. It was also known as the Indochina war. The battle was about the communist regime of North Vietnam and their southern allies,the Viet Cong. The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting of Vietnam. The South Vietnamese was supported by the U.S and the North was supported by the Soviet Union. (Spector, R. H. (n.d.). Vietnam War para 1) There are various causes of the Vietnam War, one is the Truman Doctrine that Harry Truman made, The Domino Theory,and Ho Chi Minh was the leader of the North Vietnam.
Turmoil for the small Southeastern-Asian country of Vietnam began in the early 1940’s with the spread of communism. Ho Chi Minh was a Vietnamese born man who found work early in life as a cook aboard a French steamer ship and later began to live on land in France. During his time in France, Minh was immersed into communist culture. In 1917 a young Minh received word of the Bolshevik revolution.