“Tales from ancient pages”

“Tales from ancient pages”

Through pages tinted by the passage of time, a portion of the history, culture, and daily life of the Nguyen Dynasty comes vividly to life.
The Huyen Tran Temple Festival launched

With the theme of “Respect to Predecessors”, this year's Huyen Tran Temple Festival was opened with an art program reenacting the life and great merits of Princess Huyen Tran...

The Huyen Tran Temple Festival launched
Bringing Hue ao dai to Australia

Nguyen Giang Thanh, founder of VietCharm, is a Hue girl with great love to the ao dai. After seven years living in Australia, she had decided to return to her hometown...

Bringing Hue ao dai to Australia
Nibbling five-tiger jam on New Year's Eve

In the New Year of the Tiger, Mr. Tran Thanh Quang (Hue City) meticulously cut a tiger shape from green papaya and potato to make a five-tiger jam for guests.

Nibbling five-tiger jam on New Year s Eve
Wandering the fairy-tale river

The river gets its water from the Perfume River at the end of Da Vien dune, flows through the territory of Hue City, Huong Thuy town and pours into Ha Trung Lagoon.

Wandering the fairy-tale river
Original is A Da Koonh Festival

A Da Koonh Festival is one of the traditional rituals to say goodbye to the old year and welcome the new one, preparing for a new crop.

Original is A Da Koonh Festival
Spring Newspaper Exhibition

This year's spring newspaper exhibition introduces to readers 250 copies of various spring and Tet newspapers; including 63 spring newspapers from the local Party of 63 provinces and cities nationwide;...

Spring Newspaper Exhibition
Experiencing Tet traditions in Hue

This includes experiencing activities like making candied-ginger, candied-coconut, molded rice cake, Phap lam-color cake, Tet sticky rice cake, paper flowers, or braiding hair for ao dai outfits...

Experiencing Tet traditions in Hue
Royal medicinal sweet soups

Medicinal sweet soup is the ingenious creation and combination of Hue women. In addition to the sweet soup dishes cooked for offerings, the ancient people also used sweet soups as medicine...

Royal medicinal sweet soups
Listening to the raindrops from Quan Tuong Dai

Quan Tuong Dai was built in 1827 during the reign of Emperor Minh Mang with the purpose for astrologers of Kham Thien Giam to use telescopes to observe the sun, moon, stars.

Listening to the raindrops from Quan Tuong Dai
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