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Emperor Tu Duc enjoyed the longest reign of any monarch of the Nguyễn dynasty, ruling from 1848 to 1883. [1] Although he had 104 wives and concubines, he was unable to father a son (possibly he became sterile after contracting smallpox). Thus, it fell to him to write his own epitaph on the deeds of his reign.
The nodes are the notes of the first seven overtones, or flageolets, similar to guitar harmonics at the string positions above the octave (1/2), the perfect fifth (2/3), the perfect fourth (3/4), the just major third (4/5), the just minor third (5/6) and two tones not present on the Western musical scale: the septimal minor third (6/7) and the ...
[2] [4] The colours of paint using in printing are refined from various kinds of natural materials which are easily found in Vietnam. For instance, the red colour is taken from red gravel in Thiên Thai Mountain, while the black comes from charcoal of burned bamboo leaves. In that way, a Đông Hồ painting can keep its colours for a long time ...
This expedition, conducted between April 10 and 14, 2009, performed a survey of the cave and gave its volume as 38,500,000 m 3 (1.36 × 10 9 cu ft). [ 10 ] [ 9 ] Their progress in exploring the cave's full length was stopped by a large, 60-metre (200 ft) high flowstone -coated wall, which the expedition named the Great Wall of Vietnam. [ 10 ]
Sơn Đoòng cave doline. During the 1990s, Hồ Khanh was living as a very poor man, trying to earn an honest living in Bố Trạch.During a jungle expedition to extract agarwood in 1991, Hồ Khanh reportedly discovered an enormous cave entrance, with a wide river flowing out of it.
Li Bai was also noted as a master of the jueju, or cut-verse. [50] Ming-dynasty poet Li Pan Long thought Li Bai was the greatest jueju master of the Tang dynasty. [51] Li Bai was noted for his mastery of the lüshi, or "regulated verse", the formally most demanding verse form of the times. Watson notes, however, that his poem "Seeing a Friend ...
The core zone of this national park covers 857.54 km 2 and a buffer zone of 1,954 km 2. [1] The park was created to protect one of the world's two largest karst regions with 300 caves and grottoes and also protects the ecosystem of limestone forest of the Annamite Range region in North Central Coast of Vietnam. [2] [3]
Lü Dongbin is a legendary Chinese scholar and poet who lived during the Tang dynasty whose lifetime supposedly spanned two hundred and twenty years. Elevated to the status of an immortal in the Chinese cultural sphere by Daoists, he is one of the most widely known of the group of deities known as the Eight Immortals.