“Chúc Mừng Năm Mới” – Happy Vietnamese New Year!
In Vietnamese, it is called “Tet – or “Tết Nguyên Đán” which means “The First Morning” and it lasts 15 days. This year it is the Year of the Cat , and It goes from...
Holiday Connections. World A Fiesta in the Making
The Children of the Dragon – Vietnamese Creation Myth
Many people believe that Vietnamese people are Chinese, but they are not. Vietnamese people or Kinh people belong to an Austroasiatic Mon ethnic group. However, China had a big influence in its culture throughout 1000...
Chinese Food and Health
The Chinese practice of seasonal agriculture has been the basis for the development of all the other aspects of human intellect we know as the “Chinese Civilization”. China’s vast land has climates that go from...
Chinese Inventions!
One of the things that amazes me about Chinese creativity is that there are ordinary people today that can read a text that was written 3500 year old. The name ‘China’ comes from the Sanskrit...
