Vietnam - Blog Posts

since regrettably most of my followers aren’t vietnamese, i’d like y’all to know that the vietnamese language is pretty moderately gendered, most of our honorifics are gendered, so nonbinary vietnamese people have been creating their own gender neutral pronouns like by combining “chị” (girl older than you) and “anh” (dude older than you) into chanh, but chanh is also the word for lemon lol. so for a short while lemons became a symbolic nonbinary thing, but some nonbinary viets were like hmm we don’t like how that pronoun is defined by a gender binary so they created a new pronoun, “cam” which means “orange” like the fruit lmaoo

Terrace paddies in North Vietnam [Shortlisted in National Geographic Photo Contest 2015] by Quynh Anh Photography on Flickr

Asian - Vietnamese Lemon Grass Chicken Curry Lemongrass gives this straightforward chicken curry dish a delicious twist.

Hey guys! I have new drawings of countryhumans that I wanted to post so here they are! Sorry for the weirdness in some of them. I was trying out a filter. 😅

Hope you guys like them though!

Vietnam Mikuuuuu! 🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳

Minh Thành pagoda, Pleiku, Vietnam. Credit to Nguyen Thanh Luan.

Thanh Toàn tile-roofed bridge, Thủy Thanh village

Located in Thừa Thiên-Huế province in central Vietnam, this historical countryside bridge was built in 1776 under the patronage of Mrs. Tran Thi Dao. A local philanthropist and a wife of a high-ranking court official, Mrs. Dao sponsored the bridge to be built to make it easier for the villagers to cross the canal to the fields on the other bank. Her enterprise was received with praise from the emperor and in 1925 King Khải Định decreed an altar to be built her honor at the center of the bridge.

The structure itself is supported by 18 wooden pillars and is divided into 7 room-like compartments. The stone bridgeheads are pigmented with yellow that is associated with prosperity and royalty in Vietnamese culture, and embellished with flower-themed and angular spiral reliefs with a poem written in Chinese characters on each side of the archway. The top part of the entrance features classical symbols and red, which in turn symbols good fortune and celebration. The roof is ornamented with traditional reliefs at the ends of the green glazed roof tiles and intricate roof decorations depicting dragons over the two entrances and a pair of phoenixes spreading their wings and facing the sun at the center.

The bridge is acclaimed for the high artistic, cultural and historical value it possesses and nowadays it's a popular site for festivals and tourism with hundred-year old banyan trees and traditional Vietnamese lanterns lining the location.

Recently in February 2021 a restoration process for the bridge was completed. The monument was given a fresh layer of paint, the most noticeable change being the vibrant red colour being added to the pillars, bridgeheads and interior roof. In addition golden details to the altar and silver decorations on the outside were restored.

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Intricate details at the ceiling of some Vietnamese pagodas. Credit to Hiếu Trần.

Nôm pagoda in Hưng Yên province, Vietnam.

Fashion photoshoot taken at Nôm Pagoda, Hưng Yên. Built in 1680, the pagoda is now 300+ year old. Credit to Le Nguyen Tuan Minh.

My Son, 2020

Cham temple ruin, Vietnam

Banh It Cham Towers, Vietnam

Stone statue in Vietnamese city called Hue

Architecture & natural scenery at Huế, Vietnam. Credit to Nguyen Tuan Tung.

Hoàn Kiếm Lake, Hanoi - Vietnam

Always seeking sacred space.

Bai Dinh Temple. Vietnam. 2016

Traditional architecture in North Vietnam (Hanoi, Ninh Binh, Hai Phong, Thai Binh). Credit to Instagram account im.phuc_vu.