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Happy Lunar New Year 🧧 everyone!!
#Chúcmừngnămmới
I am connecting with my Vietnamese roots and the people who I call home. One day I would like to visit Vietnam, China, or France (colonial rules) and experience Tết as it should be with flowers 🌸 , fruits 🍎, and pastries 🥮. Year of the dragon 🐉 also signifies a lot so let us celebrate 2024 in style with new life, good health, soul-enriching experiences, passionate love, and prosperity! 💐💖✨
#tet#tet2024#vietnamese lunar new year festival#lunar new year#vietnamese lunar new year#year of the dragon#new year#chuc mung nam moi
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Jesus man, relax.
#this was in response to me saying “lunar new year” on the rarity art#personal#delete later#what in insane nonproblem to get this angry about#i asked my parents (taiwanese immigrants) about this and they said we use either but prefer lunar new year#because it's inclusive to koreans and vietnamese people who celebrate on the same day#lunar new year is an umbrella term same as “happy holidays.” this person is basically getting mad i said happy holidays instead of#merry christmas.#my family and i identify more as taiwanese than chinese so. we're not gonna say chinese new year much anyways#i sent this to my mom btw and she replied with basically “die mad i guess.” love you ma#this literally doesn't matter anyways i could have said “chinese new year” to caption that post and it wouldn't have mattered#the only reason i didn't is because i plan on drawing another art including carol (coco pommel) who's korean and celebrates the same day#like. most people in china/taiwan don't care they just say “happy new year” cuz it's the fuckin new year. someone saying lunar new year is#not erasure it's not flattening asian identities into a monolith. it's just an umbrella term.#anyways happy lunar new year happy chinese new year happy tet happy spring festival happy seollal#like i cannot stress enough to you guys that these holidays are on the exact same day and celebrate basically the same exact thing.#this is not an issue.
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Google New Year Animations:
When you go on Google and type “[insert Asian country that celebrates Lunar New Year] New Year”, you will be greeted with a firework and a rabbit/cat animation (depending on the country). A rabbit for China and other countries that use the same animal zodiac and a cat for Vietnam since 2023 is the Year of the Cat there. It’s the little things…
Screenshots of animations that show up when you search “Chinese New Year” and “Korean New Year” respectively on Google. Since both countries share the same zodiac, it’s the year of the rabbit for both.
Screenshot of animation that shows up when you search “Vietnamese New Year” on Google. The Vietnamese zodiac replaces the rabbit for the cat as the fourth zodiac animal.
#chinese new year#korean new year#vietnamese new year#春节#spring festival#seollal#설날#tết nguyên Đán#lunar new year#google#asian culture#asia#it’s the little things#year of the rabbit#year of the cat
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Do you wanna see the outfit I have for the mid-autumn festival? 👀
@mlk082 @pieground @spoopy-fish-writes @evil-quartett @yanderepuck @kasumi-prenami @sange-de-romane @a-chaotic-fae
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Celebrating the Lunar New Year: Origins, Customs, Traditions, and Festivities
Celebrating the Lunar New Year: Origins, Customs, Traditions, and Festivities
The History and Significance of the Lunar New Year
The Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is a holiday that is celebrated by many East Asian and Southeast Asian countries. It is a time for families to come together and celebrate the new year, as well as pay respects to their ancestors.
The origins of the Lunar New Year can be traced back to ancient China, where it was a time to…
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#Ancestor veneration#Cultural performances#Customs and traditions#East Asian cultures#Festivities#Fireworks#Korean dance and music#Korean Seollal#Lion dance#Lunar New Year#New Year celebrations#Red envelopes#Southeast Asian cultures#Spring Festival#Traditional foods#Vietnamese Tet#Water puppets
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While the Chinese zodiac celebrates 2023 as the year of the rabbit, not all Asian cultures use the same animals to represent the years.
According to the Vietnamese zodiac and the Gurung zodiac observed in central Nepal, 2023 is the year of the cat, and according to the Malay zodiac, it is the year of the mouse deer.
The Cat is the 4th animal symbol in the 12-year cycle of the Vietnamese zodiac and Gurung zodiac, taking place of the Rabbit in the Chinese zodiac.
As such, the traits associated with the Rabbit are attributed to the Cat. Cats are in conflict with the Rat.
Legends relating to the order of the Chinese zodiac often include stories as to why the cat was not included among the twelve. Because the Rat tricked the cat into missing the banquet with the Jade Emperor, the cat was not included and was not aware that the banquet was going on and was not given a year, thus began the antipathy between cats and rats. It is possible domesticated cats had not proliferated through China at the zodiac's induction.
Another legend known as "The Great Race" tells that all the animals in the zodiac were headed to the Jade Emperor. The Cat and Rat were the most intelligent of the animals, however they were both also poor swimmers and came across a river. They both tricked the kind, naïve Ox to assist them by letting them ride on its back over the river. As the Ox was approaching the other side of the river, the Rat pushed the Cat into the river, then jumped off the Ox and rushed to the Jade Emperor, becoming the first in the zodiac. All the other animals made it to the Jade Emperor, while the Cat was left to drown in the river after being sabotaged by the Rat. It is said that this is also the reason cats always hunt rats.
There have been various explanations of why the Vietnamese, unlike all other countries who follow the Chinese calendar, have the cat instead of the Rabbit as a zodiac animal.
The most common explanation is that in the ordering system (Earthly Branches) that is used for lunar year, the word for used for the "rabbit zodiac" 卯 (Mão ~ Mẹo) sounds like the Vietnamese word for "cat" 貓 (con mèo). 🐈🐇
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The Quintessence of Tonkin Hanoi Vietnam
The Quintessence of Tonkin Hanoi Vietnam
Quintessence of Tonkin – travelvietnam
The Quintessence of Tonkin (Tinh Hoa Bac Bo) show is a magnificent visual feast, but getting there and back to Hoan Kiem wasn’t easy. Somehow, advertisements boasting the show’s intention of – “bringing Vietnam culture out to the world and helping nudge local culture closer to international friends” – didn’t quite ring true…
Quintessence of Tonkin –…
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#Brass Gongs#Director Hoang Nhat Nam#Dragon Boat Racing#Hanoi Vietnam#Hoàn Kiếm#Lunar New Year Festival#Ly Dynasty Buddhist Monk Tu Dao Hanh#Quoc Oai District#Red River Delta Region#Sai Mountain#The Quintessence of Tonkin#Thy Pagoda#Tinh Hoa Bac Bo#Tuan Chau Hanoi JSC#Vietnamese Water Puppetry#Wooden Drums
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Happy Lunar New Year!
It's the Year of the Dragon!!
I've seen the new Dislyte banner and it just reminded me about some fun thing about how we talk about Lunar New Year and some things surrounding it.
So as a primer, the Lunar New Year is based on the Harvest Calendar 农历 (Nong Li) as opposed to the Gregorian calendar that we use in most of the world today. The Nong Li Calender follows the cycles of the moon, hence the reason it's known as the Lunar Calendar in english and other western languages.
So when we mention Spring Festival 春节 Chun Jie it encapsulates the entirety of the first 7 or 15 days of the Lunar New Year (16, if we count New Years Eve). All 15 days are significant and depending on how big or how close your family is, there's slightly differing tradition.
New Year's Eve - 除夕 Chu Xi - Everyone arrives home and we have a big reunion dinner with our immediate family.
New Year's Day - 大年初一 Da Nian Chu Yi - Officially Chinese New Year, we'll go around visiting our eldest relatives to wish them a happy new year bai nian. Families tend to congregate at the home of the eldest living relative (great-grandparents' homes, grandparents' homes, eldest uncles homes)
Wearing red, Firecrackers, Dragon Dances and Lion dances are all common parts of the celebration! By legend it is used to scare away the evil monster Nian who used to eat people!
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(Lion Dancers will go up to people's homes and businesses as a troupe to usher in the new year! It's also a highly acrobatic sport with its own institutions, definitely check it out!)
Seventh day of New Year - 人日 Ren Ri - Day of Humans - we consider it the day where the first humans were created by Nuwa, so it's everyone's birthday! Festivities for most households tend to end on this day or on the eighth of New Years.
Fifteenth day of New Year - 元宵节 Yuan Xiao Jie - Lantern Festival marks the official end of the New Years/Spring Festival. In Hokkien we call it Chap Goh Mei 初十五 (literally 15th [of the new year])
You can read about the other days of Lunar New Year here: https://www.nypl.org/blog/2021/02/11/15-days-lunar-new-year !
Furthermore in my home city of Johor Bahru we have a special procession on the 21st of the new year's called the Chingay Parade.
So how should I wish people who celebrate Lunar New Year?
Happy Lunar New Year! is good (abbreviating to Happy LNY! is cool too) this is for consideration of for example Koreans, Vietnamese, Hmong, and other diasporic Chinese Lunar New Year celebrators!
In my country of Malaysia, Happy Chinese New Year is the norm because most people that celebrate Lunar New Year happen to be ethnically chinese.
恭喜發財 (Gōng xǐ fā cái) - Wish you wealth and prosperity
身體健康 (Shēn tǐ jiàn kāng) - Wishing you good health
萬事如意 (Wàn shì rú yì) - May everything go well for you
Bonus:
What are Red Packets and how do I get one? (lol) 🧧
It's also generally alright to go visit or 拜年 bai nian with your neighbours that celebrate Lunar New Year during this period of time, remember to bring a pair of mandarin oranges with you! (Remember to always bring mandarin oranges in pairs as it's seen as good luck.) You might want to contact them ahead to see if they're around XD
Unmarried folks can get a red packet from the hosting family for wishing them a happy new year. It's kind of like trick-or-treating lol.
新年快乐！！
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Lunar New Year 2023
Happy Lunar New Year to all who celebrate! Lunar New Year is celebrated in countries all over the world, though it is largely celebrated in Asia and is sometimes called Chinese New Year or Korean New Year or Vietnamese New Year, etc. depending on which country’s celebrations one is referring to. In Chinese, it is most often called the Spring Festival.
This lunar year is the year of the Rabbit (although in Vietnam is it the year of the Cat!), so we are sharing these stories of Brer Rabbit’s adventures as told by Ennis Rees and illustrated by Edward Gorey. More of Brer Rabbit’s Tricks was published in 1968 by Young Scott Books.
Brer Rabbit stories originate in the African diaspora and were told widely among enslaved people in the American South. The stories were then co-opted by white American authors, for example in the “Uncle Remus” tales written by Joel Chandler Harris and Disney’s film Song of the South. The stories in More of Brer Rabbits Tricks were developed based on Harris’s tellings of the stories.
-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager
#Brer Rabbit#Br'er Rabbit#Lunar New Year#Chinese New Year#Ennis Rees#Edward Gorey#More of Brer Rabbit's Tricks#tricksters#Uncle Remus#Joel Chandler Harris#Song of the South#Young Scott Books#Alice
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Half-a-ween Special: A Full Calendar of Spookiness!
Friends, today is Half-a-ween—the day of the year on the exact opposite side of the calendar from our beloved Halloween—and I thought, what better time to remind ourselves that All Hallows is a year-round celebration of the dark and spooky side of life! Operating the whole year, of course, means having to contend with other holidays as they arise. I touched on the crossover potential between Halloween and Christmas a while back, but holidays have a habit of cropping up in every season, and it seems only fitting to fill the All Hallows calendar with appropriately spooky twists on them all!
For our first shake-up, we’re starting this calendar not in January, but in November—right after Halloween itself, and just when we might be wondering what else we could do with All Hallows now that it’s raison d’être is past.
Dia de Los Muertos: Let’s be clear—Dia de los Muertos is not just “Mexican Halloween,” and I don’t think it’s right to go around poaching bits of other people’s cultures for entertainment. That said, there are some similar themes between the Day of the Dead and Halloween, and if a special event could be done respectfully and with full permission and consultation by the Mexican-American community, it could be a good way to ease the park down from the full-blown frenzy of Halloween itself. Dia de los Muertos events would be located in Ghoul City, and in the expanded version of the park, Croaker Creek (for the Southwestern aesthetic) and History of Horror (for the educational aspect).
Thanksgiving: Pumpkin Acres is our Thanksgiving hub, what with already exemplifying the harvest aspect of Halloween with its cornstalks, scarecrows, pumpkin and apple pies, and other bits of cozy rural Americana. For Thanksgiving, live turkeys are added to Harry Palmer’s Petting Farm, Country Costumes adds Pilgrim garb and turkey suits to its wares, and the pumpkin patch transforms into a farmer’s market selling actual edible produce (including pumpkins, still...but now they're explicitly for pies). Make a reservation for a genuine turkey dinner at Granny McGillicuddy's Pie Barn...and if slots run out, similar meal events are available in other park restaurants!
Christmas: A couple years ago, I devoted a whole post to Christmas possibilities for All Hallows. I still stand by all of it. Hexmas imagery forms the backbone of the Yuletide festivities, with spooky black evergreens in the Entry Plaza, Trick-or-Treat Village, and Ghoul City. Goblin Woods and County Drakul host folkloric monsters as walkaround characters. Meanwhile, people who prefer a more conventional Christmas can head into Pumpkin Acres, where things are a bit more mainstream. All across the park, you can shop for Christmas-themed costumes, and Grave Goods stocks a few bona-fide Christmas decorations alongside the more typical Hexmas ones.
New Year’s: Interestingly enough, the ancient Celts marked the turning of the year at Samhain and many neopagans still observe it as their religious New Year. That said, raucous New Year celebrations are generally considered an urban phenomenon, so head to Ghoul City for the special events (and Baby New Year/Father Time costumes, if you think you need them). Strange things happen when the clock counts down to midnight...and nothing new can start without something else meeting its end...
Lunar New Year: Lunar New Year, as its name suggests, is tied to the phases of the moon. That alone suggests some interesting crossover ideas, but there's more content to be had in focusing on the East Asian cultural aspect with its deep well of horror lore. Chinese hopping vampires, Japanese youkai, Vietnamese ghosts and monsters...expect to see them all wandering the place, along with the animals of the Eastern zodiac itself.
Valentine’s Day: Not to be crass about it, but “monsterfucking” became the Tumblr equivalent of a household word for a reason. Quite a few people seem to fantasize about romance with one or more creatures of the night. Valentine's Day festivities are more touchy-feely than other occasions at All Hallows...or any theme park, really. In this adults-only special event, roaming characters are fully empowered to flirt with guests and even engage in some low-level physical contact (e.g. hugging, hand-holding). The interactions range from the sultry to the silly and everything in-between (but nothing too intense).
Carnavale/Mardi Gras: This one isn't a big deal where I live, so I don't have any firm ideas for specific events or attractions, but I'll just point out two things. First, this holiday shares with Halloween a tradition of masks and costumes, so expect to see a lot more colorful sequins and feathers on the shelves of the costume stores. Second, the etymology of the word “carnival” apparently comes from the Latin root for “flesh.” There's probably something we can do with that.
Easter: What do Easter and Halloween have in common? CANDY! What else do they have in common? Um...things rising from the dead...no, I'm sorry, I can't. I'm not Christian but I'm not about to make a mockery of their holiest day like that. Better stick with the candy. The Easter celebrations in All Hallows can be found in Trick-or-Treat Village, where the characters sport bunny ears and hand out trick-or-treat prizes inside specially patterned plastic eggs.
May Day/Half-a-ween: On this, the polar opposite day to Samhain, the Seelie and Unseelie faeries are said to do battle with each other for control of the natural world! If you dance the maypole in Goblin Woods, you might catch a glimpse of this conflict (read: battalions of bloodthirsty fae will appear without warning and skirmish without regard for bystanders). Elsewhere in the park, the delightful irony of Half-a-ween, or “Halloween in May,” is reflected in window displays and roaming character dialogue.
Summer: Goblin Woods comes to the fore again with “A Midsummer Night's Nightmare,” a full-scale LARP adventure for teams of 4-6 players (reservations required). In Ghoul City, the Gilman Municipal Beach area becomes the site of a tongue-in-cheek Monster Beach Party event. Pumpkin Acres is all about the Summer Harvest, with delicious summer produce and watermelons carved like jack-o-lanterns. These events run all summer long until Labor Day weekend (we Americans are weird and place it in early September), by which point we're all sick of the heat and ready for Halloween season proper to begin again!
All Year Long: Keep an eye on your calendar and plan visits for evenings marked with a white circle, even if they fall in the middle of the week. The night of the full moon is Werewolf Night in Ghoul City, Goblin Woods, and County Drakul, and each month bears a sub-theme of its own, with photo ops, collectible merch, and more! And if a second full moon hits in one calendar month? That's the fabled Blue Moon, bringing twice the spooky magic!
And that's how you celebrate Halloween the whole year round.
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(ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ about me *:･ ﾟ✧
commander harley vuong 🏳️⚧️, by @hawkepockets
🌟 i am:
23
vietnamese-american
bi nb
💫 i mainly post:
nature photography and art (#plants, #flowers, #sky, #water)
guild wars 2 (#gw2)
pokemon (#pokemon)
many other video games and shows! feel free to ask me about specifics, i usually tag everything
🌟 i write gw2 fic! including:
commander’s pov
HOW TO BUILD A CHAIR - (character study, norn-centric) the commander tries to assemble a chair using the provided IKEA black lion trading company instruction manual.
how to come back from the dead - (angst, hurt/comfort, 1.9k words) the commander’s introspection of the departing, but written like a wikiHow article.
visions of the past: the departing - (fluff, angst, hurt/comfort, 5.6k words) the commander never told braham about their first death at the hands of balthazar. years later, he finds out in the worst way possible.
forgive us - (hurt/comfort, 2.4k words) the commander has another near-death experience and their team is not happy about it.
goodbye/goodluck - (fluff, 1.1k words, commander/trahearne) the commander confesses to trahearne right before they head off to fight zhaitan.
not okay - (hurt/comfort, 1.2k words, implied commander/trahearne) taimi helps the commander deal with losing a loved one.
gift fics
late winter in divinity's reach - (fluff, 1.2k words) winter and urlae are invited to celebrate the lunar new year's festival in divinity's reach.
if you give a cat an axe - (fluff, 935 words) in a momentary lapse of judgement, styran lets catragna pick out the wintersday tree this year.
your presence is the gift - (fluff, 1.6k words) prun and sieran exchange early wintersday gifts.
i also have an ao3 ✍︎︎(｡•́‿•̀｡ )
#chúc mừng năm mới heres my new pinned post which is functionally identical to my old one#pinned post
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Tết in Boston event was a vibe.
#VietnameseNurses #KoreanNurses #asiannurses #vietnameselunarnewyear #vietnameselunarnewyearfestival #Tet #Tết #tet2024 #tết2024 #LunarNewYear #YearoftheDragon #happylunarnewyear #happynewyear #lunarnewyear2024
#tet#Tết#lunar new year#Vietnamese lunar new year#vietnamese lunar new year festival#tet2024#Tết 2024#year of the dragon
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Oh my gosh, that's super cool! I, admittedly, don't know a lot about Vietnamese culture. What all happens at a têt festival? If you don't mind me asking.
ooh so first everyone get like a government issued week off (yayyy!!) but it can vary depending on how much your job/school is
the preparations start about a month or at least a week before, youd have to clean out the entire house, no speck of dust left!!! take out all your furniture and polish them!!! the year shall start FRESH
and also the sticky rice cakes ingredients gotta be dipped in water for a night or two and cooked later, gotta wipe and clean and dry the wrapping leaves, etc, some of us jsut buy store made ones :D (the cookin can take up to 8 hours 💀 or more)
new years eve, according to the lunar calendar (its the 21st this year :D), we have this reunion dinner with our family, we have some funky new years foods like some box shaped (bánh chưng) or cylindrical shaped (bánh tét) sticky rice mung bean cakes <- the former is traditional to the northern part of vietnam while the latter is native to the south, i like banh tet more XD), yellow boiled chicken, rice, sweet sticky rice, pickled veggies (củ kiệu) <- it goes with the cakes mentioned, also caramelized meat and eggs, and some other foods and snacks like candied fruits (including ginger), some roasted seeds (watermelon, sunflower, pumpkin)
worship, pray to ancestors (place a plate of 5 fruits that their names would be a play of word to mean lucky things, i dont know much about those but their are certain fruit you definitely cant put on the plate as it would mean bad omens) - go to temples, pagodas since most of us are buddists, pray there for things you want in the coming year, put some money to support the temple and like to give out more youd get more back, people tend to be really generous around new years
lots of food mentioned above are eaten throughout new years
my family doesnt do this but on the first day of new years youre supposed to visit your dad’s extended family, the second day your mum’s and the third you visit your teachers
young children would go and tell well wishes to their elders after that the elders would hand them lì xì (lucky money) and tell the kids well wishes too, but we mostly focus on free money omg!! you can gather lots and lots of money from all the grown ups
the well wishes would typically be to wish the other to reach 100 years old or more, a lengthy life, to get more money and be prosperous, to have things go their way, to be healthy
you are not to sweep your floor within the first 3-5(?) days of new years (they say that would mean youre sweeping all the new years luck away, it varies for some family the waiting period)
unofficially a tradition, we would play card games (illegal) with real money involve (so illegal, but honestly no cops are going to catch you cuz everyone does it for funsies with the family)
^ card games like tiến lên or a simpler one: xì dách
btw hardcore card players dont make no sense around these time they use complete slangs to talk 💀 the slangs sound like cantonese fr
also people born in the years fitting of the zodiac of the new year will be luckier (i think) like if you were born in the year of the cat you would be lucky this year since its your year!! (they really do tend to gather more money) (when i was twelve i made so much on my year)
an alternative would be to go on vacations (save you the trouble of having to greet some relatives) (but its really pricey to do so)
#tết#hoodie’s moots#hoodie’s ask#boiled onionrings#tết nguyên đán#long post#feel free to ask more questions :D!!!
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Vietnamese paintings from Vietnamese-French artists Lê Phổ (1907-2001) and Mai Trung Thứ (1906-1980)
Vietnamese lady 越南女士. Lê Phổ. Ink and gouache on silk. ca. 1938. Important Private American Collection. Sotheby’s [image source].
Idylle (Idyll). Lê Phổ. Ink and gouache on silk. c.a. 1940s. Private Collection, France. Christie’s [image source].
Portrait de jeune femme à la branche de lotus. (Portrait of a young woman with a lotus branch). Lê Phổ. Ink and gouache on silk laid on board, 1939. Private Collection, USA. Sotheby’s [image source].
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"Trong dam gi dep bang sen
Lá xanh bông trang lai chen nhi vang
Nhi vang, bông trang, lá xanh
Gan bun mà chang hôi tanh mui bun.”
— Một bài thơ truyền thống Việt Nam
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"In a pond, what is more beautiful than a lotus,
Green leaves and white petals surround yellow stamens.
Oh, yellow stamens, white petals, and green leaves,
Though near mud you grew, your smell is still perfumed”
— A Vietnamese traditional poem
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Harmonie verte: Les deux sœurs (Harmony in Green: The Two Sisters). Lê Phổ. Gouache on silk, 1938. Collection of National Gallery Singapore, Singapore [image source].
Jeune fille en blanc (Young Girl in White). Lê Phổ. Gouache on silk, c.a. 1931-1932. Christie’s [image source].
Maternité (Motherhood). Lê Phổ. Ink and color on silk, 1940. Private Collection, Paris. Aguttes [image source].
Grand-mère (Grandmother). Mai Trung Thứ. Ink and gouache on silk mounted on cardboard, 1944. Private Collection, Spain. Sotheby’s [image source].
L'Heure du thé (Tea Time). Mai Trung Thứ. Ink and gouache on silk, 1945. Invaluable [image source].
A l'approche du tet (As Tet Approaches). Lê Phổ. Ink and color on silk [image source].
Note: the word “tet (Tết)” is short for Tết Nguyên Đán (“Festival of the First Day of the Year”). It’s the most sacred festival for the Vietnamese. It’s the Lunar New Year in the Vietnamese calendar. It celebrates the arrival of Spring which falls between January and February in the Gregorian calendar.
#vietnam#vietnamese#vietnamese art#vietnamese painters#le pho#mai trung thu#asian art#ao dai#Tết#Tết Nguyên Đán
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RING IN THE NEW YEAR
• inspired that one fanart I saw of JJK characters wearing áo dài (traditional Vietnamese garment) but I forgot who they were 😫•
cw: FLUFF FLUFF FLUFF. Satoru goes to a Lunar New Year festival with the love of his life!!!!! (I won’t pretend that this isn’t self-indulgent as a viet girl myself)
The first few days of February were still chilly, paired with rain and finicky weather. That didn’t make the festival goers shy away from wearing their best clothes, their best áo dài to bring in the new year. Tết is a special time, especially for those who live abroad, to recreate a sense and feeling of their home. Red firecrackers, red envelopes, red good luck scrolls were the center of the tradition. It was encouraged, during Tết, that you drape yourself in the brightest of colors, so the rest of the year will be just as colorful.
“Satoru, make sure you don’t show up in black, that’s all I’m asking for, seriously,” Satoru on the other end of the line scoffed and assured you he would l be even brighter than you. You didn’t doubt it.
The rainy days were unpredictable but you see all the cô and chú (translation: aunts and uncles) wearing their most anticipated garments. Posing for pictures, despite the rain droplets clouding up their cameras lenses every few seconds.
Half an hour after your phone call, Satoru arrived at your front door. You didn’t quite make out his face from the upstairs window but you could see a red blob floating towards the door. You giggle to yourself, appreciating the effort your boyfriend had put in to celebrate this event with you.
You could hear Satoru muttering broken Vietnamese phrases to your parents as you descended the stairs, later on he confirmed that he was giving them his new year’s wishes.
He wore a bright red áo dài, men’s cut, with gold stamps of Chinese words of luck and fortune embellished all over the canvas. Satoru was not above wearing a pair of black slacks underneath it. But you weren’t any better than him. Your yellow áo dài, women’s cut, the length reached your ankles and you opted for a warm pair of black leggings as opposed to the silk pants.
“You look stunning, sweetheart,” Satoru gawked at you, his arm snaked around your waist and pulled you closer to him. He ran hot, so the cold outside became much more of a nuisance than an issue. You both waived your parents goodbye before dipping out of frame. He took your face in his palms before kissing your lips, inhaling your scent as he did it behind the closed door. He always had such a way to make you fluster to filth.
The festival was as lively as ever. The smell of barbecued meats drenched the air and incense coated the atmosphere. Everyone lined up with a burning stick in their hand, waiting to pray to the gods above for a fruitful year. It was overwhelming at first but you quickly spotted a wishing wall. The wall is made of bamboo sheets skillfully pulled together and tied with twine to keep upright. There were a variety of colors lining sheet, each piece were embedded with written hopes and dreams. It was a sight to relish in.
You took a step back before finding yourself penning down your own wishes and dreams. You thought out your words before writing them, just to avoid unnecessarily crossing them out.
“What are you wishing for babe?” Satoru peaked past your shoulders, that only made you panic and slammed your hand atop the sheet.
“I can’t tell you! Or else it won’t come true,” you said.
He didn’t say anything other than making a face.
“Can you hang this up for me, Satoru?”
“Only if you let me know what you wished for,” he teased, and you relented.
You wished for good health, for yourself, friends and family. You wished for a stable career that will provide you the freedom to be flexible in your personal life. You wished for be by Satoru’s side, if possible, forever.
You could see he smiled when he read the last line item.
He took the strings and tied them to the highest point of the bamboo wall, his slender fingers twisted the piece of fabric and pulled them into a tight knot.
“That way, the gods will get to your requests first,” he smiled down at you.
“Do you want to write one for yourself, Satoru? There are plenty of paper left and the wall isn’t filled,” you suggested. He only looked you and placed a tender kiss on your forehead.
“I don’t want to take up space, I already got everything I wished for. Right. Here.”
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Tet has always been an essential festival in Vietnam, back from the ancient days until now. People believe in the first day of the Lunar Year, they should visit pagodas and temples to pray for a new successful year. Although I do believe in that traditions, every time I visit religious places, what caught my eyes are usually ancient architecture and pattern.
These photographs are taken in Tran Quoc Pagoda near West Lake in Hanoi. Legend said it is one of the most important locations for praying and blessing in Hanoi, many kings and emperors in the past held big religious events here in the temple.
As you can see from the photos, the architecture is constructed strictly to the rules of Buddhism architecture, with a big front gate welcoming people to chronological visit each departments inside. The most noticeable thing can be witnessed from far awat is the Lotus tower, which represent the idea of pure like a lotus, born from dirt but rise and grow into a gorgeous type of flower. The general concept of this temple is the awakening and growth of not only each individual but also the society.
The main pattern here is lotuses, though being reconstructed multiple times in centuries. From the tiles I am standing on, to handles on the handrails.... everything is our country's national flower. The unification in pattern make the temple has its own uniqueness, making it unforgettable for anyone who have once visited it.
At the end, I proudly say that I have once have a chance to visit and witnessed the magic of this historical temple. As a Vietnamese, I believe locations like Tran Quoc Pagoda should be visited and preserved more, so that history will always live and stay with us.
It is the first day of the Lunar New Year. I am looking forward to experiencing more in the future.
(Photos by Minh Anh Tran - 2023)
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