Folk paintings are a combination of traditional cultural values with ancient artistic methods that have been created through the labour of past generations. There are two types of Vietnamese folk paintings, Tet (Lunar New Year Festival) paintings and worshiping paintings.
Huong Son Tourist Area covers an area of a thousand hectares and includes a complex of mountains, rivers and streams, villages, pagodas, and grottoes surrounded by the Huong Tich Mountain Range, north of the Truong Son Range.
Hue has chosen to be the capital city of the Southern Kingdom by all Nguyen Lords and officially became the capital under Tay Son'reign. For approximately 400 years,
The Space of Gong culture is recognized as a masterpiece of the humanity, indicating immense significance, especially in the skillful arts of performance. It is also be regarded as the icon of the Central Highlands and its peoples
The year 2008 will be designated as “Visit Mekong Delta Year”, promoting unforgettable impressions of the Mekong Delta Region, such as the legendary Mekong River, the immense rice fields, fertile delta, fruitful gardens, diversified bio-system, unique rice culture, ancient traditions and festivals, historical and cultural relics of the peoples of Viet, Hoa, Khmer and Cham
Van Mieu - Quoc Tu Giam is a famous historical and cultural relic consisting of the Temple of Literature and Vietnam's first university. The Temple of Literature was built in 1070 in honour of Confucius, his followers and Chu Van An, a moral figure in Vietnamese education.
In the system of national museums, the National Museum of Vietnam History was early founded on the material basis of the Louis Finot, a museum of the Ecole Française d'Extreme-Orient which was built in 1926 and completed in 1932. In 1958, the Vietnam Government officially took over this cultural building and started to research, collect and supplement materials and objects, converting the contents from eastern arts into national history. On 3 September 1958, the National Museum of Vietnam History was officially opened for visitors