Why do so many tourists come to Vietnam? And what makes them book holidays in Vietnam? There are many reasons. One of these reasons is the unique Vietnamese culture. So what is Vietnamese culture?
This is a very big kingdom and no one could tell in an article. However, today I am talking about the function “Water” in Vietnamese culture. You may be surprised by my article. Now, we should see the Vietnamese culture from the beginning. It dates back to more than 3,000 years ago when Vietnamese ancestors lived inside many limestone caves in northeastern and northwestern Vietnam. These areas are your first home. Over time, their groups became so large that there was not enough space or food for them. This made them find new areas to live. In the end, they decided to go down from the mountains to a delta. This place is the Red River delta right now. Here they had better conditions for their life. There are many rivers, lakes, ponds (at the moment, in an investigation, a square kilometer of land has about 1.7 to 2 kilometers of river). Therefore, they could find plenty of fish to eat. This is also his first job: fishing. Also, this area is very flat and filled with water. It is good for planning different crops. So, the second job began. That’s wet rice farming. It was also the time when the Vietnamese culture was formed and it is being added till now through about 5 typhoons per year. They have to get used to living with water. During this time, we call the Red River Civilization or Wet Rice Civilization.
Since then, the Vietnamese have learned to live with water and have managed to conquer it, use it and make the most of it for their lives. Water affects their activities of daily living, from traffic to earning a living, such as moving in small boats on the Mekong River or in many floating villages from north to south and fishing with 3,265 km of coastline. Whatever they do, water is the first thing that comes to mind. However, the most famous to the world is that the Vietnamese took advantage of the water to defend their country. Any big fight between the Vietnamese and the invaders happened on the water. For example, the Vietnamese achieved their fight with Nam Han (Chinese) on the Bach Dang River in 938 and gained their independence and freedom after 1000 years of domination, the second is their fight with Tong (Chinese) also on the Bach Dang River. and the most famous fight was in 1288 between the Vietnamese and Mongol army (under King Kublai Khan) on the Bach Dang River.
Now by joining Vietnam holidays, you have a chance to experience our culture through many activities like Halong Bay and see floating life in many floating villages, water puppet show. You will be surprised. The puppets dance on the surface of the water telling you about the daily activities of the Vietnamese, from raising ducks, fish, planting rice in the water, or plowing rice fields in the water too… Those things happen in the countryside and you can see them during your Holidays in Vietnam. In the city, you can visit beautiful forbidden palaces, pagodas, temples. All of them are surrounded by water in peaceful and beautiful lakes, ponds, rivers… The reason is that we have hot and rainy reasons, so the lakes, ponds and rivers are used to hold water in the rainy season, but They serve as natural air. conditioning machine in summer. More is waiting for you to discover during your vacation in Vietnam.