Tets festival in Hoian

New Year in Hoi An is so strange, many lanterns were hung up everywhere. In the street, people hang lanter to say good bye the old year and welcome the new year, wish the new year they will be more prosperous.

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Hoi An nice shots

Conveniently located slap-bang in the middle of the country, Hoi An breaks up a journey between the North and South nicely, and as a result, few visitors come to Vietnam without passing through the town. But it is so much more than just a stopover or a tourist trap.

Once an important trading port, but no longer significant by the time of the American War, Hoi An was spared the wartime devastation that so many other towns suffered. As a result its historic buildings have been preserved in a way that is rarely seen elsewhere in Vietnam, and (aside from the trappings of tourism) it really does feel like a place where time has stood still.
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Vietnamese wedding in Hoi An

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The traditional Vietnamese wedding is one of the most important ceremonies in Vietnamese culture, with influence from Confucian and Buddhist ideologies. Hoi An is one of place live with so many thing of Vietnamese traditional culture. This thread talk about Hoi An traditional wedding, but you can imagine, in Vietnam, the wedding are like that.

While traditional clothes of Vietnam have always been very diverse depending on the era and occasion, after the Nguyen Dynasty women began to wear elaborate Áo dài for their weddings. These dresses were modeled after the Áo mệnh phụ (royal Áo dài) of Nguyen Dynasty court ladies. The style of the Nguyen Dynasty has remained popular and is still used in current-day Vietnamese wedding attire. The difference between the Áo mệnh phụ and the typical Áo dài is the elaborateness of its design. The former is usually embroidered with imperial symbols such as the phoenix) and includes an extravagant outer cloak. This gown is preferably in red or pink, and the bride usually wears a Khăn đống headdress. The groom wears a simpler male equivalent of the dress, often in the color blue.

Previous to the Nguyen Dynasty, it is likely that women simply wore fancy, elaborate versions of Áo tứ thân. Read more

Hoi An Lantern Festival 2010

Authorities in Hoi An will host a lantern festival to celebrate the Lunar New Year, decorating the city’s ancient tower and honoring the local handicraft of lantern making.

The festival will open in the 30th evening of the twelfth lunar month in 2009, which falls on February 13, 2010. The city will be bathed in the colorful, sparkling lantern lights arranged in traditional and modern shapes of fruits, Vị trí đặt quảng cáodragons, a phoenix, turtles, buffalo and other symbols of stars, moon, bridges and ancient buildings representing the architecture of the ancient town. Read more

Visit Hoian at night

If you arrive to Hoi An at afternoon, we recommend you try walking around for the Hoi An night. There may be many interesting things waiting for you here, lanterns, clothes shop, Hoian calligraphy, night foods. . . Travel2hoian.com would like to introduce some images are very life of Hoi An night. Hope that will provide a slight additional useful information for those who intend to Hoi An in an afternoon.

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Hoianian Photographer

There are many Photographer have many wonderful shot on Hoian. Now we introduce some picture by Hoianian Photographer, they live and work in Hoian and one of Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists.

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1967 – Hội An – Quảng Nam.
Artwork: Eye of Town – Old Friend – A Vuong Morning…
Member of Vietnam Association of Photographic Artists.
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