Culture

Bunraku, timeless beauty

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Last weekend, the audience of the capital enjoyed Bunraku, a traditional puppet art of Japan, recognized by UNESCO as a Representative Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity with the excerpt "The Journey of the Spring Drum" from the play "Yoshitsune and a Thousand Cherry Blossom Plants". Both shows, the audience was packed with spectators and the endless applause showed Bunraku's beauty and appeal.

Poetry page: The summer is ripe

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July was welcomed with bright sunshine, sweet fruits, and ripe lotus, a red foothold with red shoots in the foot, and the wild sunflower like a bird taking flight. I remember the Sonnet poems of W. Shakespeare, the author of the masterpiece "Summer Night Dream" (1600) wrote about the summer that is so special, like the season of the birth of love that those who know love want to last forever: "I will compare you to a summer?/ You are more lovely, more gentle/ The summer rental period is one day too short/ And all your beauty sometimes fades/ Your eternal summer will not fade".

UNESCO recognizes Vietnam as the 9th World Heritage Site

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Quang Ninh - At 6:00 p.m. (Vietnam time), in Paris (France), UNESCO recognized the Yen Tu - Vinh Nghiem - Con Son and Kiep Bac Monuments and Scenes Complex as a World Heritage Site.

The musical about Uncle Ho released on National Day, September 2

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Towards the 80th anniversary of the August Revolution and National Day on September 2, Vietnam National Drama Theatre staged a musical about President Ho Chi Minh for the first time and introduced emotional plays recreating the image of a person in the resistance war.

The fake... lovely

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The relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law has always been a topic that never goes out of style. Although society has changed and roles in the family have become more equal, between those two women - one representing the past and one carrying the future - there is still a "calm but full of waves" area.