Popular arts

The Vietnamese have an impressive treasure of folklore which plays a very important role in the spiritual life.

Here are some kinds of folk art:

1 - Cheo: Singing theatre talking  about love, the beauty of life, nature, hypocrisy ... accompanied by traditional music:

 

2 - Tuong:Singing theatre telling the stories of history and life:

3 - Water Puppet:

This theater often tells folk tales and rural life:


4 - Quan Ho:

Personal or collective songs telling sentiment, the love ... classified as World Immaterial Cultural Heritage by Unesco:

 

5 - Cai Luong:

Typical in South  of Viet Nam, Cai Luong singing theater telling the love stories and tales of history:
 

6 - Hat Xam :
There are songs of beggar:

7 -  Chau Van :
It is sung during religious ceremonies:


8- Hat Xoan:  The Xoan songs in the North of Ha Noi, classified as World Immaterial Cultural Heritage by Unesco:

9 - Ho : The song invented during working : Ho in Hue ancient capita:

10 - Bai Choi: A kind of Ho songs in the coast :

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Here are some kinds of traditional performing arts of Vietnam. Each region, each ethnic group has different folk treasures to discover.

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11 - Ca Tru :It is a way to declaim poems, accompanied by music performed by the Dan day instrument Day