Vietnamese Culture Research Paper
Around the world there are so many different cultures. The way people eat, live, their religion, their practices are all completely different from each other. It’s amazing how far people are separated and all different types of people build up an economy just like everyone else and essentially make their own ethnicity. What is also amazing is that almost all countries have their own mythology. The Vietnamese are no different.
When people think of Vietnamese, they usually think of the war. Believe it or not, they do have a history that goes way back. Around 333 BC, when the Chinese invaded the area south of the Yang-tse-kiang river, the Lac Viet clan migrated to the South and settled in the area where the Melanesians were living and built up their nation, which has become Vietnam (Introduction to Vietnam). The Vietnamese were believed to belong to a group of “Bach Viet.” This means one hundred clans of Viet in their language. They used to live scattered around what is now Southern China. (Vietventures) They lived in a naturally beautiful place. They had to wander around on different islands and …show more content…
They did wear have a hat called the “Non Bai Tho.” The English name for this hat is also the “Poetical Leaf.” These hats were one hundred percent hand-crafted (they didn’t have machines like today). When more people started making them, they were originally worn when planting rice. Eventually, the Vietnamese started to decorate them by putting four big leaves around the top side of the hat. Doing this not only protected them from the heat but it kept hat from deteriorating, as well as keeping the rain out of their face. The story of the that tells about a goddess who gifted one of these cone-like hats to a homeless man who was naked, and overall the hat saved his life. They eventually built a temple to praise her.(Vietnamese Culture and
When people think of Vietnamese, they usually think of the war. Believe it or not, they do have a history that goes way back. Around 333 BC, when the Chinese invaded the area south of the Yang-tse-kiang river, the Lac Viet clan migrated to the South and settled in the area where the Melanesians were living and built up their nation, which has become Vietnam (Introduction to Vietnam). The Vietnamese were believed to belong to a group of “Bach Viet.” This means one hundred clans of Viet in their language. They used to live scattered around what is now Southern China. (Vietventures) They lived in a naturally beautiful place. They had to wander around on different islands and …show more content…
They did wear have a hat called the “Non Bai Tho.” The English name for this hat is also the “Poetical Leaf.” These hats were one hundred percent hand-crafted (they didn’t have machines like today). When more people started making them, they were originally worn when planting rice. Eventually, the Vietnamese started to decorate them by putting four big leaves around the top side of the hat. Doing this not only protected them from the heat but it kept hat from deteriorating, as well as keeping the rain out of their face. The story of the that tells about a goddess who gifted one of these cone-like hats to a homeless man who was naked, and overall the hat saved his life. They eventually built a temple to praise her.(Vietnamese Culture and