(VOVWORLD) - The Raglai are a matriarchal ethnic minority group who live in Vietnam’s Central Highlands. When a Raglai couple decides to get married, the girl’s family decides everything
(VOVWORLD) - Preserving ethnic culture is a tough challenge in the modern world. In Thai Hai hamlet, Thai Nguyen province, preserving the language, costumes, folklore, and customs of Vietnam’s Tay...
(VOVWORLD) - Cham people in the Mekong delta province of An Giang live mostly in An Phú, TânChâu, and PhúTân district. They celebrate a month of Ramadan in September of the Islamic...
(VOVWORLD) - Cham people used to have cumbersome procedures for weddings, funerals, and other rituals. Since the Party Central Committee issued a resolution on developing Vietnamese culture imbued with national identity in...
(VOVWORLD) - Traditionally, a Thai ethnic man had to stay at his in-laws’ house for 2 to 7 years before bringing his wife home. Although this tradition is no longer practiced,...
(VOVWORLD) - The Dao comprise two groups, who speak the Mien and Mun dialects. In religious rites of the Mùn group, there are always Ka Dong men wearing masks with two horns...
(VOVWORLD) - The sound of gongs, gourd clarinets, and drums echoes over mountains and forests from Diom A hamlet, Don Duong district, Lam Dong province. Regular performances have revived the music...
(VOVWORLD) - Tay poet Nong Viet Toai, who was born in the Viet Bac northern region, the base of Vietnam’s revolutionary forces during their struggle against French colonialists, has spent most...
(VOVWORLD) - The Tho ethnic minority live in mountain communes in Nghe An and Thanh Hoa province. They have maintained their traditional costumes, folk singing, and dancing. Gong playing is an...
(VOVWORLD) - The Ngai group has about 1,200 people living in 27 cities and provinces, but mostly in the northern province of Thai Nguyen. The Ngai are called by many names Khach Gia, He,...
(VOVWORLD) - A group of teachers and students at the Boarding High School in Dien Bien province has developed a website for the self-study of the Thai language. In 2019...
(VOVWORLD) - It’s a Dao tradition that girls must learn to weave, embroider, and make their own clothes when they are little. The embroidery patterns on their clothes reflect the culture...
(VOVWORLD) - A stilt house built by the Thai ethnic minority people has two wood stoves for different purposes. Besides cooking, the wood stove has an important position in the...
(VOVWORLD) - Of Vietnam’s 54 ethnic groups, several consist of a few hundred people living in remote mountain areas. The O Du in Nghe An province is one of the...
(VOVWORLD) - For many generations the Nung An ethnic minority of Phja Thap hamlet have been making incense sticks from natural materials. Phja Thap hamlet at the foot of Ta Hung...
(VOVWORLD) - Sin Ho district in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau is home to the Dao Khau ethnic minority group. Each Dao Khau clan has a set of musical instruments...
(VOVWORLD) - Of the ethnic groups who live in Ha Giang province, the Giay are clustered mainly in Tát Ngà hamlet, Mèo Vạc district. Recent socio-economic development has made their life easier...
(VOVWORLD) - The “Dao Tien” in the northwestern province of Son La believe that a newborn baby is not an official member of the family or recognized by his or her...
(VOVWORLD) - “Khau cut” is a crescent symbol often seen on the roofs of Thai ethnic minority people’s stilt houses in Vietnam’s northwestern region. Researchers say the symbolis associated...
(VOVWORLD) - The Tay in the northern border province of Quang Ninh have a vibrant cultural life with many customs, rituals, and festivals, such as the “Going to the field” festival at the beginning of the year, the Longevity ceremony, the Crop...