What role did Nguyễn Hữu Cảnh play in opening up the land of Nam Bộ?
Nguyễn Hữu Cảnh was the person sent by the Nguyễn lords to administer the land of Nam Bộ in 1698. He established the administrative apparatus, divided and set up Gia Định prefecture and Phước Long district, recruited settlers, reclaimed rice land, compiled registers of population and fields, and fixed taxes, laying a firm foundation for the development of the land of Đồng Nai - Gia Định and the whole of Nam Bộ afterwards.
The death anniversary of Lễ Thành Hau Nguyễn Hữu Cảnh honors the pioneer of Southern Vietnam, a ritual named a National Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2025.
Bát Môn in Kỳ Môn Độn Giáp covers the eight gates Huu, Sinh, Thuong, Do, Canh, Tu, Kinh and Khai, their trigram and element origins, and which favor a matter.
Tả Phù and Hữu Bật in Tử Vi: placed by lunar birth month from Thìn and Tuất, sharing Mùi (month 4) or Sửu (month 10), as read in Vietnamese Tử Vi books.
Basic feng shui principles for indoor plants: choosing species, placement by bagua, the five elements, and keeping plants healthy to sustain positive energy.
Nguyễn Trãi, world cultural celebrity, was the soul of the resistance against the Ming and spent years at Côn Sơn writing and reflecting on benevolent rule.
Tây Nguyên culture centres on the gong space, the rông house and the matrilineal system. The article analyses their origins and how they are changing today.
Nguyễn Du used Eastern physiognomy to portray personality, inner life and fate in The Tale of Kieu, revealing how traditional culture shaped his craft.
Chữ Nôm is the writing system Vietnamese people built from Chinese character material to record their own language, still seen on hoành phi and câu đối.
Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư opens with the Hồng Bàng era: Kinh Dương Vương, named Lộc Tục, and the realm of Xích Quỷ. The Hán text set beside later histories.
A major writer and journalist of modern Vietnamese literature, famous for his essays and short stories such as Vang bóng một thời, Người lái đò sông Đà, Chữ người tử tù
Poet and Vietnamese cultural figure of the modern era, known as Tam Nguyên Yên Đổ and the poet of Vietnamese village scenery with his autumn poem series
Vietnam's number one female cyclist, three time Asian champion in the road cycling women's mass start event and the first Vietnamese road cyclist to earn an Olympic berth