Can Tho city is rich in culture and art with many famous artists and composers. Following that tradition, the source of ancient music composers in Can Tho is increasing significantly, contributing to the conservation and promotion of national music.
It is extremely vital to create and develop the reading movement, in an attempt to build a learning society, a beauty in our social life; raising awareness of all classes of citizens about the great significance and importance of reading for research, education and human personality formation.
“Writers and artists across the country have contributed significantly to Vietnam’s pandemic success. They are the “soldiers” on the cultural “front”. Furthermore, it is they who created and promoted many literary and artistic works that convey meaningful messages, raise public awareness on COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control, and spread positive energy in the community.
Currently, the city of Cần Thơ is joining hands to prevent and control the COVID-19 pandemic. Cần Thơ artists within their capacities also try to support the frontline against the COVID-19 pandemic. From emotional and true stories, many paintings and folk songs are born to spread the beauty of life during the pandemic of COVID-19.
The Five Deities (Ba Ngu Hanh or Ngu Hanh Nuong Nuong) symbolize the Five Elements: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth. Beyond their literal meanings, they have been used to consider the correlations of the cosmos. The worship of the Five Deities in Southern Vietnam demonstrates how adaptable Vietnamese people are when they tweak the Chinese philosophy to fit in their own religious values.
The Cần Thơ Association Of Photographic Artists is exhibiting the photo contest named “Cần Thơ rendezvous” at the Cần Thơ city branch of the Việt Nam Union of Literature and Arts Associations (No. 170, Ly Tu Trong Street, Ninh Kieu District). There are 111 photographic works in the exhibition, including 11 awarded ones, illustrating the beauty of Cần Thơ city today.
Families in Vietnam, particularly those in the South, usually worship Kitchen Gods (Ông Táo or Thần Bếp), and this practice is closely related to early fire-worshiping beliefs of primitive humans.
Passed down the precious culture from the ancestors, Can Tho people have been cherishing, preserving, and enhancing the heritage of their homeland. Consequently, home-grown vegetables, traditional music and stage performances of Hat Boi (classical Vietnamese opera) in communal houses keep a lot of miraculous charm. Specifically, Can Tho culture is "exported” to everywhere in a special way.
“Ho... o...
Hò... ơ... Trai nào bảnh bằng trai Nhơn Ái. (Nobody is as handsome as I am.)
Đầu thì hớt chải tóc tém bảy ba. (A Nhon Ai man with a haircut side part 7/3)
Mặc pi-ja-ma khăn bàn choàng cổ. (in the pajamas and scarf)
Thấy em gái Ba Xuyên ngồ ngộ muốn cùng ai thổ lộ đôi lời. (I fall for you, a Ba Xuyen lady, whom I can bear my soul to.)
Cấy cày cực lắm em ơi. (I know farming is arduous for you, so…)
Theo anh về vườn ăn trái... Hò... ơ... (Please, follow me to my orchard ...)
Theo anh về vườn ăn trái một đời ấm no... (Please, follow me to the orchard and live a fulfilled life with me)
No sooner has the singer finished his turn than the audience gives him a big round of applause. A twenty-year-old turned to their friends saying, “What a catchy chanty!”
As recorded, houses in the Mekong Delta rural areas had few changes in their space and structure until the 1945 - 1975 period. From 1986 onwards, due to Vietnam’s socio-economic development, there have been rapid shifts in houses’ structure, building materials, designs, and sizes. The better we understand the ancient Mekong River Delta countryside house space, the more we gain insight into nature and the working lives of local people.