This is the English translation of the original Vietnamese-language book entitled Định Hình Văn Hóa Việt by author Lạp Chúc Nguyễn Huy, former Professor of the Faculty of Letters, Saigon University, and Cao Đài University in Tây Ninh in South Vietnam before April 30, 1975. In Canada, he has worked as a Researcher of the Anthropology Department, Laval University, Quebec, Canada.
This translated book by Vinh-The Lam, published in 2022 by Nhân Ảnh Publishing House in California, US, comprising 363 pages, is currently available at price of $32.78 USD (Paperback).
CONTENTS:
Introduction
1. The Concept of Culture
Part 1. Culture of the Hùng Vương Era
2. Southeast Asian Culture
3. The Story of Betel and Areca
4. Skirt of Hùng Vương Area
5. The Chopstick Culture
6. The Stone Dog
Part 2.
7. Chinese Domination Era
8. Yếm
Part 3.
9. The village community hall
10. Village banquets
11. The Soul of Nghê
12. Thăng Long
13. The Tết Pole
14. Origin of Tết
15. Tết Meal
16. The ancestral altar
Part 4.
17. Huế
18. Educational philosophy
19. Royal Meal
20. Áo dài
21. Nón Lá
22. The culture of traditional house
23. Cây kiểng
Bibliography
SYNOPSIS
Characterizing the Vietnamese culture is the presentation of the tangible and intangible traditional cultural characteristics from the origin to the present in order to help the readers, especially the young people, to identify the Vietnamese culture. The culture of the Hùng Vương era was characterized by the following specific writings: Skirts, Chopsticks, Stone Dog, Betel and Areca. In the period of independence, Vietnam began to enter the Far Eastern cultural house. During this period, the cultural centre of the countryside was the community hall (Đình) and the pagoda characterized by Village Meal, the “Nghê”, while the national cultural centre was the capital city of Thăng Long characterized by the following specific writings: Tết, Tết Pole, Tết Meal, Ancestral Altar, Ancestral Worshipping. Huế is the symbol of the summit of the traditional culture reflected by the following specific writings: Educational Philosophy of the Nguyễn Emperors, Royal Meal, Origin of The Traditional Robe (Áo Dài), The Palm-leafed Conic Hat (Nón Lá), The Culture in The Traditional House, and Cây Kiểng (Vietnamese Bonsai).
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