Why do many tourists come to Vietnam? And what makes you book a Vietnam vacation? There are many reasons. One of these reasons is the unique Vietnamese culture. So what is Vietnamese culture?
This is a very large kingdom and no one could say it in an article. However, today I am talking about the function “Water” in Vietnamese culture. My article may surprise you. Now, we should see the Vietnamese culture from the beginning. It dates back to more than 3000 years ago, when Vietnamese ancestors lived within many limestone caves in the northeast and northwest of Vietnam. These areas are your first home. From time to time, their groups got so big that there wasn’t enough space and food for them. This made them find new areas to live. In the end, they decided to go down 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, one square kilometer of land there is about 1.7-2 kilometers of river). Therefore, they could find a lot of fish to feed on. This is also his first job: fishing. Also, this area is very flat and full of water. It is good for planning different crops. So, the second job began. That is wet rice cultivation. It was also the time when the Vietnamese culture was formed and is adding so far 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 the 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. The water affects their activities of daily living, from traffic to making a living, such as moving in small boats on the Mekong River or in many floating villages from north to south and fishing 3,265 km of coastline. Whatever they do, water comes first. However, the most famous thing in 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 in the water. For example, the Vietnamese managed their fight with Nam Han (Chinese) on the Bach Dang River in 938 and won 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 joining the Vietnam vacation you have the opportunity to experience our culture through many activities like Halong Bay and see the floating life in many floating villages, water puppet show. You will be amazed. The puppets dance on the surface of the water and tell you about Vietnamese daily activities, from raising ducks, fishing, planning rice in the water or plowing rice fields in the water too … Those things happen in the field and you can see during your Vacation in Vietnam. In the city, you can visit beautiful forbidden palaces, pagodas, temples. All of them are surrounded by water in calm and beautiful lakes, ponds, rivers … The reason is that we have warm and rainy reasons, that is why lakes, ponds, rivers are used to retain water in the rainy season but they serve as natural air – summer conditioning machine. More awaits you to discover during your Vietnam vacation.