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The national symbols of Vietnam are official and unofficial flags, icons or cultural expressions that are emblematic, representative or otherwise characteristic of Vietnam and of its culture. Symbol [ edit ]
nón cụ, often worn in weddings in South Vietnam; nón Ba tầm, popular in the North of Vietnam; nón bài thơ, a thin white conical hat with pictures or a few verses usually from in Huế; nón dấu, a cap with pointed tips of beast soldiers from the feudal period; nón gõ, a hat made of straw, grafted for soldiers in the feudal period
A mianguan in the Ding Ling Tomb Museum within the Ming Tombs. The mianguan (Chinese: 冕冠; pinyin: miǎnguān; lit. 'ceremonial headdress'), also called benkan in Japan, myeonlyugwan in Korea, and Miện quan in Vietnam, is a type of crown traditionally worn by the emperors of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, as well as other kings in the East Asia.
Thousands of mourners gathered in Hanoi on Friday for the second day of the funeral of the man who dominated Vietnamese politics for over a decade, Communist Party general secretary Nguyen Phu Trong.
Trong’s coffin, draped in the red and yellow of Vietnam’s flag, was laid beneath his smiling portrait and dozens of medals at the National Funeral House in Hanoi on Thursday. All flags in the southeast Asian nation flew at half mast during the two-day period of national mourning, while all sports and entertainment were suspended.
There are many symbols of Vietnam. Long ago, it was "Chim Lac", a kind of bird only found in stories. Chim Lac was the symbol found in the surface of "Bronze Drum"; it also was the symbol of the Vietnamese forbidden kingdom Lac Viet. (In Vietnamese, the word "Chim" means "Bird".) Nowadays, when thinking about Vietnam, people often think of the ...
Families will usually gather to carry out funeral rituals, in order both to show respect for the dead and to strengthen the bonds of the kin group. Those with closer relationships to the dead (i.e. sons and daughters) wear white garments, while more distant relatives wear garments in different colours of white, black, blue and green.
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