https://cailuongvietnam.com/newenglish/en/news/culture/ en Tue, 3 Mar 2026 18:03:00 GMT Tue, 3 Mar 2026 18:03:00 GMT https://cailuongvietnam.com/newenglish/en/rss/ https://cailuongvietnam.com/newenglish/uploads/logo_c361fb9526233f56fd461c4ffab1fa8e.png https://cailuongvietnam.com/newenglish/en/news/culture/ 144 24 https://cailuongvietnam.com/newenglish/en/news/culture/nguyen-tieu-festival-held-in-hoi-an-91.html Tue, 3 Mar 2026 18:03:00 GMT Tet Nguyen Tieu (Nguyen Tieu Festival), recognized as a National Intangible Cultural Heritage, takes place in the Ancient Town of Hoi An in Hoi An Ward, Da Nang City, on March 2-4 (14th to 16th days of the first lunar month).]]> https://cailuongvietnam.com/newenglish/en/news/culture/fireworks-to-illuminate-16-locations-across-hcmc-on-lunar-new-year-s-eve-88.html Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:02:00 GMT Ho Chi Minh City will organize fireworks displays at 16 locations to welcome the Lunar New Year 2026, the Year of the Horse.]]> https://cailuongvietnam.com/newenglish/en/news/culture/schools-promote-cultural-heritage-through-traditional-arts-for-students-84.html Thu, 8 Jan 2026 14:01:00 GMT In 2025, Ho Chi Minh City’s vibrant arts scene has seen a growing movement to bring traditional Vietnamese performing arts into schools, fostering cultural awareness and love for national heritage among students.]]> https://cailuongvietnam.com/newenglish/en/news/culture/french-drama-blended-with-traditional-vietnamese-music-presented-in-hcmc-79.html Fri, 7 Nov 2025 05:11:00 GMT The French Institute in Vietnam is set to stage the French play “Bulle” (Bubble), by French director Léo Barcet. The performance aims to offer audiences a distinctive encounter between contemporary French theater and traditional Vietnamese music.]]> https://cailuongvietnam.com/newenglish/en/news/culture/vietnam-pho-festival-2025-to-be-held-in-singapore-in-october-75.html Fri, 26 Sep 2025 19:09:00 GMT The 2025 Vietnam Pho Festival will be held in Singapore on October 18-19, aiming to honor Pho, a quintessential dish embodying the essence of Vietnam's wet-rice civilization.]]> https://cailuongvietnam.com/newenglish/en/news/culture/in-remembrance-of-saigon-street-calls-past-70.html Wed, 13 Aug 2025 19:08:00 GMT Drowned out by the noises of modernization, sounds that once served as the background to a simpler time have begun to shrink, and eventually become lost in the wheel of progress. Tiếng rao, or street calls, happen to be one of those dying noises, but they remain a poignant reminder of the past for many.]]> https://cailuongvietnam.com/newenglish/en/news/culture/vietnamese-traditional-music-flourishing-on-international-stage-67.html Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:07:00 GMT Singer Phuong My Chi’s success at “Sing!Asia 2025” showcases a winning strategy for Vietnamese artists: blending traditional folk elements with modern music to conquer the global stage.]]> https://cailuongvietnam.com/newenglish/en/news/culture/tu-luc-van-doan-61.html Thu, 17 Apr 2025 02:04:00 GMT When I first started as a writer, I noticed that I couldn’t write in Vietnamese very well, despite the fact that I was born here. Most of my English vocabulary comes from books, so in order to improve my mother tongue, I began reading Vietnamese texts. The first one I chose was Hà Nội Băm Sáu Phố Phường, or The 36 Streets of Hanoi, by Thạch Lam. This book had been lying on my bookshelf for a long time, but that day was the first time I picked it up.]]> https://cailuongvietnam.com/newenglish/en/news/culture/don-ca-tai-tu-captures-the-soul-of-southern-vietnam-in-every-melody-every-word-58.html Sat, 8 Mar 2025 00:03:00 GMT “It’s not something unfamiliar, but it’s been a few years since I last heard it. Stumbling upon this beautiful bucolic scene now has made me fall in love with the Mekong Delta’s đờn ca tài tử melodies again.”]]> https://cailuongvietnam.com/newenglish/en/news/culture/vu-bang-s-nostalgic-longings-for-hanoi-teach-us-how-to-love-a-place-deeply-57.html Wed, 12 Feb 2025 22:02:00 GMT From Thương Nhớ Mười Hai to Miếng Ngon Hà Nội, Vũ Bằng’s way of lacing Hanoian features with melancholic reminiscence always brings me straight back to the embrace of my hometown, even more so after I moved to Saigon at age 19. Since then, my writing and social media posts about Hanoi have often been accompanied by quotes “stolen” from his books: “My spring — the spring of northern Vietnam, Hanoi's spring — is a season of gentle misty rain, cool tender winds, the sound of swallows calling all jade-dark night, distant chèo drum beats from distant hamlets with maidens lovely as poems singing timeless love songs.” This was how Vũ Bằng’s oeuvre made its way to my heart.]]> https://cailuongvietnam.com/newenglish/en/news/culture/new-book-reveals-exiled-vietnamese-emperor-as-artist-in-algeria-51.html Sun, 10 Nov 2024 05:11:00 GMT The book “Ham Nghi – Exiled Emperor, Artist in Algeria” was launched on November 5 in Hue imperial city, the central province of Thua Thien-Hue, shedding light on the exiled Vietnamese emperor’s artistic legacy.]]> https://cailuongvietnam.com/newenglish/en/news/culture/vietnam-pho-festival-2024-officially-starts-in-seoul-45.html Sat, 12 Oct 2024 22:10:00 GMT The 2024 Vietnam Pho Festival opened at the Pie Factory of the Seoul Children's Grand Park in Seoul, the Republic of Korea (RoK) on October 5 (local times).]]> https://cailuongvietnam.com/newenglish/en/news/culture/10-vietnamese-food-you-need-to-try-42.html Wed, 9 Oct 2024 05:10:00 GMT Vietnamese food is distinct and unforgettable, according to UK magazine Rough Guides.]]> https://cailuongvietnam.com/newenglish/en/news/culture/artist-kieu-phuong-loan-is-surprised-to-see-her-image-35-years-ago-36.html Fri, 4 Oct 2024 12:10:00 GMT Artist Kieu Phuong Loan said she was surprised to see the Cai Luong play that was filmed at HTV in 1988, when she was just 34 years old.]]> https://cailuongvietnam.com/newenglish/en/news/culture/queen-of-cai-luong-brought-back-to-life-on-stage-30.html Wed, 2 Oct 2024 05:10:00 GMT Descendants of the legendary cai luong (reformed opera) Artist Thanh Nga, plan to revive two plays in which their late relative, the "Queen of cai luong", often performed the leading role.]]> https://cailuongvietnam.com/newenglish/en/news/culture/the-survival-of-the-traditional-music-nhac-co-truyen-25.html Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:09:00 GMT The traditional music was always a poor relation compared to auters occidentalized musics. Before April 1975, with the National Academy of the music with Saigon, the classes of traditional instruments and arts traditional did not attract large world. The professors of traditional music had the complex of inferiority opposite the professors of Western music.]]> https://cailuongvietnam.com/newenglish/en/news/culture/vietnamese-traditional-theatre-20.html Sun, 29 Sep 2024 18:09:00 GMT Theatre of Vietnam comprises many traditional forms of drama which survive and retain their popularity to varying degrees.]]> https://cailuongvietnam.com/newenglish/en/news/culture/the-cradle-of-cai-luong-16.html Sun, 29 Sep 2024 13:09:00 GMT Cai luong (a form of modern folk opera in Vietnam) writer Nguyen Thanh Hai has been unable to contain his excitement since January when Tien Giang Theater officially reopened in My Tho Town in the southern province of Tien Giang.]]> https://cailuongvietnam.com/newenglish/en/news/culture/vietnamese-actress-takes-top-prize-in-spain-10.html Sun, 29 Sep 2024 04:09:00 GMT Chau’s leading role in Cu Li Never Cries directed by Pham Ngoc Lan won on Saturday in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.]]>