Flower villages awaiting Tet

Flower villages awaiting Tet

While not as large-scale or bustling as many famous flower villages in the North and the South, the flower villages supplying Tet flowers in Hue remain vibrant and deeply imbued with local cultural identity.
Delicious straw mushrooms

Thua Thien Hue Weekly would like to introduce to the readers the process of growing straw mushrooms of Phu Gia people.

Delicious straw mushrooms
"Keeping soul" for classic ao dai

The steps of making old ao dai are more difficult than the ones in modern ways, as most of them are handmade, requiring elaboration, carefulness and high skills such as cutting, assembling, quilting, binding…

Keeping soul for classic ao dai
Meticulous drum-making craft

During festive seasons, in cultural and artistic activities and on the first day of a school year, the sounds of drums always bring jubilant sounds that echo in the vast sky…

Meticulous drum-making craft
Hue antique roses

Thua Thien Hue Weekly would like to introduce some steps in the process of growing and taking care of the antique rose variety through the series of pictures taken by the photographer Khanh Nhat.

Hue antique roses
Countryside flowers come to town

With a long tradition and rich experience, Phu Mau people can grow flowers all year round, in spite of any season. Not only on fifteenth day or thirtieth day of every lunar month, they always have flowers to provide to people in need at any time.

Countryside flowers come to town
Peace and tranquility with the old corners

Thua Thien Hue Weekly would like to introduce the old corners in some of the tea houses and coffee shops through the series of pictures taken by Phan Trung.

Peace and tranquility with the old corners
Gentle Ao dai

The image of Hue girls with ao dai and conical hats has entered the hearts of so many people when coming to this land.

Gentle Ao dai
Vinh Hien fish market

Around 2am, the market becomes bustling with hundreds of large and small boats landing and selling famous seafood such as crab, siganus guttatus, herring and shrimp…

Vinh Hien fish market
“Telling stories” through paintings on the trunks

The paintings painted on the trunks of Lagerstroemia trees, Poinciana trees, Barringtonia acutangula trees, etc., are the fairy tales such as Little Red Riding Hood, Rabbit and Turtle, Tam and Cam, and so on.

“Telling stories” through paintings on the trunks
Bao Vinh ancient town

After eating your fill and getting tired for walking, you can take a rest in a coffee shop with beautiful views in front of the market.

Bao Vinh ancient town
Peaceful meditation place

Huyen Khong Son Thuong Pagoda belongs to the Nam Tong sect (Hìnayàna). The construction of the pagoda was completed in 1989, after dozens of years, thanks to the efforts of monks and Buddhists.

Peaceful meditation place
Hue’s golden autumn

Autumn, yellow leaves seem to be characteristics of a certain distant country but they are clearly visible in the forest of Ru Cha, like a highlight in the golden autumn picture of Hue.

Hue’s golden autumn
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