Sep
25
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Nam Dinh to celebrate royal heritage
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VietNamNet Bridge – A number of events beginning later this month will celebrate the 750th anniversary of Thien Truong, the old capital of the Tran dynasty (1225-1400) in the northern city of Nam Dinh.
People pray at Thien Truong Temple in the northern province of Nam Dinh,
which is celebrating the 750th anniversary of the old capital of the Tran dynasty.
A ceremony will be held at the heart of the city on October 5, including a military march and public parade, followed by a ceremony in which the Ho Chi Minh Order will be confered by the Prime Minister, as he recognises Nam Dinh as a first-class city.
The city's Tran Temple will also be officially recognised in the ceremony as an historical and architectural site, while Pho Minh Pagoda will be designated a special national relic.
A performance and fireworks show will take place that night, with the whole celebration throughout the day to be broadcast live on Viet Nam Television's VTV1.
As recorded by Ngo Sy Lien, in the Dai Viet Su Ky Toan Thu (Complete Annals of the Dai Viet), the Tran dynasty in 1225 took power from the Ly dynasty. In 1239, King Tran Thai Tong, whose birthplace was Tuc Mac Village, Thien Truong District, in the modern city of Nam Dinh, ordered a royal complex built here, called Tuc Mac, and a temple to worship ancestors, all of which were upgraded into the Thien Truong Palace complex in 1262. The complex, consisting of Trung Quang Palace and Trung Hoa Palace, acted as a special administrative and political centre south of the kingdom's capital city of Thang Long (Ha Noi).
During three wars against Mongol invaders in the 13th century, Tran kings stayed at the Thien Truong complex, where they stored provisions and trained the army. Under succeeding dynasties, the area played a key role in broadening the plain near the sea, reclaiming the land that makes up today's fertile Hong (Red) River delta plain.
In addition to its important place in the country's political history, the area has also been famed for its talented people and learning traditions. At the royal exam in 1247, 13-year-old local Nguyen Hien won the highest score and became one of the youngest to receive the doctoral title in the feudal period. In 1281, the Tran dynasty built an institute to recruit and train intellectuals. Since then, the locality has maintained the tradition of learning, nurturing such talents as Kings Tran Thai Tong, Tran Thanh Tong and Tran Nhan Tong, General Tran Quoc Tuan, and 20th-century revolutionaries like Truong Chinh, Tran Van Lan, Le Duc Tho, Tong Van Tran and Nguyen Co Thach.
In the 20th century, Nam Dinh was a cradle for nationalist and workers' movements, and locals made considerable contributions to the war against the Americans and the cause of building socialism.
In the run-up to the city's anniversary bash on October 5, a band contest was organised at the city's Culture House on Thursday, and a singing and dancing contest for State employees followed on Saturday.
An exhibition on the socio-economic development of the area will open tomorrow at Vi Xuyen Park in the city. A handicrafts and tourism fair will also kick off that night at Hoa Binh Square, and a bonsai exhibition gathering decorative plants by artisans from all over the Hong (Red) River region will open near the Tran Temple.
A few days later, on Saturday, the city will host an international conference on the culture of Mother God worship in Viet Nam and Asia. The next day, on Sunday, an antiques exhibition will be held at Nam Dinh Museum.
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Sep
25
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Elle Autumn-Winter Fashion Show 2012
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VietNamNet Bridge – Over 100 designs by Elise Kim, Hien Le, Duy Nguyen and Kelly Bui were performed on the catwalk of the Autumn-Winter Elle Fashion Show 2012 in HCM City on September 20.
Autumn-Winter Elle Fashion Show 2012 scheduled on Sept. 20
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Sep
25
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Hanoi’s autumn colors shine in Saigon
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VietNamNet Bridge - Vu Thai Binh, Ngo Duc Hoang and Tran Ngoc Hung have brought the colors of Hanoi’s quiet, fresh and romantic autumn to HCM City through 74 paintings.
Ngo Duc Hoang, Vu Thai Binh and Tran Ngoc Hung at the opening ceremony
at the Ho Chi Minh City Museum of Fine Arts on September 16.
The 3 Hanoi artists recently made an impressive trip to the South when they brought dozens of large-scale artworks to an exhibition in HCM City. Each of them has their own taste and creativeness.
The oldest artist is Ngo Duc Hoang, 38. Hoang’s paintings are oil and acrylic works that deliver the "heat" of original colors, which confront each other, with strongly visual impression. His paintings repeat the images of Bac Ninh love duet singers with kerchieves, basket-shaped bamboo hats, four-panel traditional dresses or Red Dao ethnic girls with heavy towels on their heads. These pictures also show the maximum simplicity in details.
That simplicity and lifestyle were learned from the Vietnamese folk paintings. Hoang has a mania for Dong Ho folk paintins and is a collector of paintings featuring the life of highlanders, especially the paintings about oracles and shamen. Hoang’s artworks are the harmony between traditional culture and modern beauty. This is an advantage makes his paintings to be favored by many foreign art-lovers.
Unlike Duc Hoang, Vu Thai Binh introduces his paintings about Buddhism to the audience of HCM City.
Most paintings by Thai Binh are large-sized works, which describe monks begging for alms, chanting, praying, and enjoying lotus blossom.
"I want to express something really deep and profound, which oppose to the vibrant life today and remind viewers to respect inner peace as well as to preserve the peace of life," Thanh Binh said.
Visitors see paintings depicting Buddhist activities by Vu Thai Binh.
Tran Ngoc Hung is the youngest artist in the group, who was born in 1983. Ngoc Hung pursues a harder and luxurious material - lacquer.
In Hung's paintings, the topics vary, from nature scenes to daily life, from the plains to the scenes of living and culture of ethnic groups. Besides artworks describing the surroundings, he also has lacquer paintings about emotion and the abstract state of mind. Gold and silver used in Hung’s paintings are real gold, silver, so it took him 1-2 months to complete a painting.
It is difficult but Hung loves this traditional material very much. "The first time exhibiting my works in HCM City, which I expect is to exchange experience with Southern artists as well as looking forward to sharing feelings, thoughts of the audience on my paintings ", Ngoc Hung said.
Painter Thanh Binh, deputy director of the HCM City Fine Arts Museum, said that the 3 artist as well as a lot of young painters in Hanoi now show their hardworking and strong creative sense.
"The exhibition called ‘The colors of autumn’ but it does not specifically describe the autumn in Hanoi. Autumn as an excuse to show a combination of improvisation among 3 personalities in the line of paintings by young authors from the capital city," he said.
The exhibition will last at the HCM City Fine Arts Museum until September 27.
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Vietnam wins two gold medals at Int’l Circus Festival
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Pens at the ready for prestigious national writing competition
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Hawaii guitar melodies touch hearts
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Hanoi hosts exhibition of Japanese KIRIGAMI
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Vietnamese-origin writer wins US National Book Award
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Nguyen Truong Son wins first prize at Davines hair show
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Elderly scholar determined to complete book
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Nexttop DJ 2012 launched
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Nha Trang – Khanh Hoa Sea Festival 2013 planning underway
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