VIETNAM

Question 1

VIETNAM National language:

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Quoc-ngu

Question 2

VIETNAM Religion:

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Combination of three religions: Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism

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VIETNAM Government:

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Socialist State Socialist Republic of Vietnam

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VIETNAM National traditional dress:

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Ao Dai

Question 5

Vietnamese culture is one of the oldest in Southeast Asia and is heavily influenced by the __

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Chinese culture

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French colonial rule introduced __ and __ to Vietnam

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Catholicism and Latin alphabet.

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VIET CULTURE

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Value of Reputation
Elders are respected
Their war history is sacrosanct
Ghosts are real
No tipping culture
Family and clan are valued over individualism

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VIET CUISINE

Answer 8

Rice, Pho

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a very well-developed tradition of martial arts that is heavily influenced by
Chinese martial arts

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Vovinam – Viet Vo Dao

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genuine Vietnamese Martial Art

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Vovinam – Viet Vo Dao

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“Vo” means “__”; “Vinam” stands for “__”)

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(“Vo” means “Martial Arts”; “Vinam” stands for “Vietnam”)

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“Tết Trung Thu” MEANS

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Full Moon Festival/ Mid-Autumn Festival

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Celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth month of the Chinese Han and
Vietnamese calendars

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Full Moon Festival or “Tết Trung Thu” (in Viet)

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the festival commemorating Buddha’s birth, enlightenment and death

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Vesak

Question 15

Vesak the holiday is known as Phật Đản and will widely be observed on __

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May 29th.

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candles are lit on floating lotus flowers and sent out into rivers around Vietnam

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VESAK

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the most important festival of the year in Vietnam

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“Tet Festival” OR Tet Nguyen Dan

Question 18

Celebrated as a time of renewal, __ serves as an opportunity for Vietnamese people to pay homage to their ancestors and have family reunions

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“Tet Festival” OR Tet Nguyen Dan

Question 19

the language of literature and government, employing Chinese characters.

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Sino-Vietnamese

Question 20

Quoc-ngu, is a relatively recent invention, becoming established in the __

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19TH CENTURY

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Vietnamese Literature
Folk Literature:

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Myths, Epics, Legends , Fairy tales, Folk Ballads, Proverbs, sayings, Narrative verses, Folk theatre: puppet theatre,

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ca dao

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VIET Folk verse

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tục ngữ

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VIET SAYINGS

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"Man, when you bring a bowl full of rice Each tasty seed equals to thousands of bitterness"

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Folk verse (ca dao)

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"If you go to a banquet, go ahead, but if you go to muddy place, go after"

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Sayings (tục ngữ)

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In the hundred-year span of a human life, Talent and destiny are always apt to strife. Through experience of a harrowing change, What we witnessed filled our hearts with tearing pain. ‘Tis not a wonder that Heaven gives then takes, And with the fair sex He used to be jealous.

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The tale of Kieu (beginning part)

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Vietnamese Literature, closely linked to the country’s ongoing political struggles.

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Modern literature

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Voices and sentiments in literature (__ declaration and the disappointment of writer’s from South Vietnam)

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Ho Chi Minh’s declaration

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Resistance against French and American forces

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VIET Modern literature

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French Romanticism

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 The New Poetry  Realism

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Post-war & Post-Reform literature

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 Memories of the war  Female writers and the expressions of gender and sexuality  Writings of/ about ethnic minorities  Depictions of daily life in peace time  Internationalization and travel writings

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Internationalization and travel writings

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Viet kieu

Question 33

The Cherished Daughter Written in __

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1700s

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The Cherished Daughter is a __ poem

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 A folk poem

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The Cherished Daughter: based on __

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work chants, love chants, ballads, riddles, and sayings

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The Cherished Daughter: themes __

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love, marriage, religion, work, and nature

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- family have a major voice in the selection of wives and husbands of their children - Consulting horoscopes

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Marriage (viet)

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a private expression of emotion by an individual speaker. It is also highly musical and can feature poetic devices like rhyme and meter

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Lyric Poem

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Poem Structure of The Cherished Daughter:

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Lyric Poetry

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Literary/Sound Device: THE CHERISHED DAUGHTER

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REPETITION

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The Forest Act categorized the Brunei’s forests into five functional classifications, as follows:

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protection, production, recreation, conservation and national park.

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the largest of the major world religions in Vietnam, with about ten million followers.

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Buddhism

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considered the “three pillars” of ancient Chinese society

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Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism

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Vietnam is a socialist republic with a one-party system led by thE

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Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV

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The combination of the three main religions in Vietnam (Daoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism) is referred to as

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Tam Giao

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simple blouse with a scoop neck and buttons in the center, often worn with a conical hat

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ao ba ba

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In the northern part of the country, the traditional dress is called ___, which means 'dress of four parts.' It is made with four panels of fabric, a long sash in the front, and is worn with a large, flat, round hat.

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ao tu than

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a noodle soup originating in North Vietnam is a noted Vietnamese dish and features rice noodles with beef or chicken soup and scallions or bean sprouts as accompaniments.

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phở

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most important social unit in the country and each clan features a patriarch heading the clan and a clan altar. the tradition of clan members living together in longhouses is quite prevalent. It is also not uncommon to see three to four generations of a family living under the same roof

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CLAN

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Originally built as a university in 1070 dedicated to Confucius, scholars and sages, the building is extremely well preserved and is a superb example of traditional-style Vietnamese architecture.

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Temple of literature

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is considered a masterpiece of Vietnamese literature. It is a lengthy poem about a woman of talent and beauty, which is enhanced by aspects of Chinese tradition and syncretic spiritual beliefs.

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Tale of Lady Kieu (Written by Nguyen Du Date of issue 1820)a period in literary history which started around the early 1900s and continued until the early 1940s.

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a period in literary history which started around the early 1900s and continued until the early 1940s.

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Modernism

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arose after World War II as a reaction to the perceived failings of modernism, whose radical artistic projects had come to be associated with totalitarianism or had been assimilated into mainstream culture

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Postmodernism