The Tây Nguyên (Central Highlands) Province of Kon Tum has built a new Rông house, a variation of stilt houses unique to the region, as part of efforts to preserve ethnic people’s cultural values and promote tourism.
The uniqueness of this ritual lies in the participants sitting on the ground while pulling. They alternate between sitting with their legs bent and stretched, facing each other across the rope.
A group of students from Hà Nội Architectural University has breathed new life into figures in Đông Hồ folk paintings—such as the boy herding buffalo or the mother pig feeding her piglets—using 3D technology.
The unique custom of worshipping the Hung Kings
practised nationwide has been officially recognised as an intangible
piece of the cultural heritage of humanity by UNESCO at the seventh
session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of
Intangible Cultural Heritage in Paris yesterday.
