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Mẫu Thượng Ngàn
Lâm Cung Thánh Mẫu (Chữ Hán: ) or Mẫu Thượng Ngàn or Bà Chúa Thượng Ngàn (Princess of the Forest) is ruler of the Forest Palace among the spirits of the Four Palaces in Vietnamese indigenous religion. In legend the Princess of the Forest was the daughter of prince Tản Viên Sơn Thánh (Sơn Tinh) and Mỵ Nương King Hung's daughter from the legend of the rivalry between Sơn Tinh and the sea god Thủy Tinh. Many natural features around Vietnam feature shrines to her, such as the Suối Mỡ thermal springs area near the town of Bắc Giang Bắc Giang () is a city in Vietnam. It is the capital of Bắc Ninh Province. Its name, deriving from that of the Province Sino-Vietnamese, means "north of the river." The location is very convenient for transportation: it is 50 km north ....Minh trị Lưu ''Historical remains & beautiful places of Hanoi and the surrounding area'' Page 268 2000 "Suối Mơ Relics is in Nghia Phương commune, Lục Ngạn ...
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Hàng Trống Painting
Hàng Trống painting () is a genre of Vietnamese woodcut painting that originated from the area of Hàng Trống ( vi) and Hàng Nón streets in the Old Quarter of Hanoi, Vietnam. In the past, Hàng Trống painting was an essential element of the Tết Nguyên Đán holiday in Hanoi, but today this tradition almost has disappeared and authentic Hàng Trống paintings are found only in museums or fine art galleries. However, the art of making Hàng Trống paintings is always considered a symbol of traditional culture and aesthetic value of Vietnam. Themes and making The common themes in Hàng Trống paintings are spiritual and cultural symbols such as the white tiger (hổ trắng) or carp (cá chép), which indicate a stronger influence of Buddhism and Taoism than in Đông Hồ painting. However, besides the pictures of worshipping themes, Hàng Trống craftsmen also made paintings with folk themes like Đông Hồ such as ''Bịt mắt bắt dê'' (blind-man's buff), ''R ...
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Bắc Giang
Bắc Giang () is a city in Vietnam. It is the capital of Bắc Ninh Province. Its name, deriving from that of the Province Sino-Vietnamese, means "north of the river." The location is very convenient for transportation: it is 50 km north of Hanoi, in the middle position on major transportation routes (roads, international railway) connecting Hanoi with the Lạng Sơn City and Đồng Đăng international border gate; Bắc Giang is located in an important transportation hub. The Thương River runs through the town's southern part heading for Haiphong. Although the name of Bắc Giang (北江 "North River") Province is very old, established in its first form in 1466, there was historically no town of that name. The town was created out of the old Láng Thượng District after independence. The Suối Mỡ thermal springs area is 37 km from the town centre. Bắc Giang Peace Park was a sister city project with Madison, Wisconsin, United States.Friends journal - Vol ...
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Vietnamese Gods
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Vietnamese Folk Religion
Vietnamese folk religion () or Đạo Lương (道良) is a group of spiritual beliefs and practices adhered to by the Vietnamese people. About 86% of the population in Vietnam are reported irreligion, irreligious, but are associated with this tradition. Vietnamese folk religion is not an Organized religion, organized religious system, but a set of local worship traditions devoted to the "thần", a term which can be translated as "spirits", "gods" or with the more exhaustive locution "generative powers". These gods can be List of nature deities, nature deities or national god, national, community or kinship tutelary deity, tutelary deities or ancestral gods and the veneration of the dead, ancestral gods of a specific family. Ancestral gods are often deified heroic persons. Vietnamese mythology preserves narratives telling of the actions of many of the cosmic gods and cultural heroes. is a distinct form of Vietnamese shamanism, giving prominence to some mother goddesses into it ...
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Vietnamese Mythology
Vietnamese mythology () comprises folklore, national myths, legends, or fairy tales from the Vietnamese people with aspects of folk religion in Vietnam. Vietnamese folklore and oral traditions may have also been influenced by historical contact with neighbouring Tai-speaking populations, other Austroasiatic-speaking peoples, as well as with people from the region now known as Greater China. Myth of national origin The mythology of the ethnic Vietnamese people (the ''Việt,'') has been transferred through oral traditions and in writing. The story of Lạc Long Quân and Âu Cơ has been cited as the common creation myth of the Vietnamese people. The story details how two progenitors, the man known as the Lạc Long Quân and the woman known as the Âu Cơ, gave birth to a "hundred eggs, fifty of which hatched, settled on land and eventually became the Vietnamese people". However, the story, dubbed ''Con rồng cháu tiên'' ("Descendants of the Dragon and the Immortal") ...
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Quế Mỵ Nương
Quế is a township () and capital of Kim Bảng District, Hà Nam Province, Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ....Ministry of Public Information in Vietnam


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Lady Lord Of Forestry
''Lady'' is a term for a woman who behaves in a polite way. Once used to describe only women of a high social class or status, the female counterpart of lord, now it may refer to any adult woman, as gentleman can be used for men. "Lady" is also a formal title in the United Kingdom. "Lady" is used before the family name or peerage of a woman with a title of nobility or honorary title ''suo jure'' (in her own right), such as female members of the Order of the Garter and Order of the Thistle, or the wife of a lord, a baronet, Scottish feudal baron, laird, or a knight, and also before the first name of the daughter of a duke, marquess, or earl. Etymology The word comes from Old English '; the first part of the word is a mutated form of ', "loaf, bread", also seen in the corresponding ', "lord". The second part is usually taken to be from the root ''dig-'', "to knead", seen also in dough; the sense development from bread-kneader, or bread-maker, or bread-shaper, to the ordinary ...
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Sơn Tinh – Thủy Tinh
Sơn Tinh – Thủy Tinh (''The Mountain God vs. The Lord of the Waters'') is a Vietnamese myth. It explains the practice of tidal irrigation and devastating floods in Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ... as a result of monsoon—a seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South Asia, South and Southeast Asia, blowing from the southwest between May and September and bringing rain (the ''wet monsoon''), or from the northeast between October and April (the ''dry monsoon''). Sơn Tinh is also one of the Four Immortals, specifically ''Tản Viên Sơn Thánh''. Myth Hùng Duệ Vương, the 18th king of the Hồng Bàng dynasty, had a very beautiful daughter named Mỵ Nương. When she became a woman, the King began his search to arrange for her marriage. He ...
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Tản Viên Sơn Thánh
Tản Viên Sơn Thánh (Chữ Hán: 傘圓山聖, 304 BCE - ?), or Sơn Tinh (山精) is one of The Four Immortals in traditional Vietnamese mythology. He is the god of the Ba Vì mountain range and figures also in the romance of Sơn Tinh - Thủy Tinh ("the God of the Mountain and the God of the Water"). Temples are dedicated to him in most towns, for example the Và Temple in Sơn Tây, Hanoi. Mythology Tản Viên Sơn Thánh was one of the 50 children who followed Lạc Long Quân to the sea, and later returned to the mainland. He sailed from Thần Phù sea gate (Nam Định) along the Red River to Long Biên Long Biên (Vietnamese), also known as Longbian ( < : *''lioŋ-pian/pen'';Schuessler, ...
citadel, but then he criticized this place for being too bustling and left for Phúc Lộc ri ...
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King Hung
King is a royal title given to a male monarch. A king is an Absolute monarchy, absolute monarch if he holds unrestricted Government, governmental power or exercises full sovereignty over a nation. Conversely, he is a Constitutional monarchy, constitutional monarch if his power is restrained by fixed laws. Kings are Hereditary monarchy, hereditary monarchs when they inherit power by birthright and Elective monarchy, elective monarchs when chosen to ascend the throne. *In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the title may refer to tribal kingship. Germanic kingship is cognate with Indo-European languages, Indo-European traditions of tribal rulership (cf. Indic ''rājan'', Gothic ''reiks'', and Old Irish ''rí'', etc.). *In the context of classical antiquity, king may translate in Latin as ''rex (king), rex'' and in Greek as ''archon'' or ''basileus''. *In classical European feudalism, the title of ''king'' as the ruler of a ''kingdom'' is und ...
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