Festival in Hanoi

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The Spring Festival is our Chinese new year, Chinese more or less all over the world will be Festival, but as a national festival in addition to China only Viet Nam.

We at Hanoi had a fun day of celebration of the Spring Festival.

The capital Hanoi is Viet Nam's political and economic and cultural center, is a historic city and transport hub of both Eastern and Western culture, vibrant.

As early as a.d. Emperor 1010 years, Li (Li Gong Yun) capital city, emigrated, found there are rising, huanglong, named the thang long. 1831, renamed Hanoi, means are embracing within the Red River.

From 1884 to Viet Nam into France in 1945, during the colony became Indochina Federation of Hanoi (Viet Nam, Cambodia, Laos) of the capital.

Now Hanoi old town's main building, remain French architecture, where the human landscape. Hanoi and surrounding areas of places of interest is the number of the provinces of Viet Nam. Monuments with legends, but the same monuments there are several legends at times. French-style buildings are beautiful, light yellow and deep yellow main tone, still in deep yellow gives a strong feeling. Red River flows slowly from urban areas, next to the city the size of the Lake, with scattered everywhere on the windowsill, tree-lined, balcony, courtyard, decorated with flowers.

And China, the Festival was full of pull up the celebrated the new year Red sites, mostly Vietnamese, occasionally there are Chinese, although the Vietnamese can not read, but the figure "2000" everyone knows.

The flower market and shop business is red flags, in addition to buy flowers, national flags, and buy gold shops where guests may wish to buy gold jewelry cloud, slowly pick up available. This year is the year of the Dragon, ancient Longyuan, Dragon, Dragon rise co of Hanoi Golden Dragon fly more often, and coincided with the 3 February is CPV 70 anniversary, so everything is a red flag fluttering, festive atmosphere.

Located in the Centre of the Kiem surrounded around the lawn and trees.

From the Lake around the Central Post Office of radiation,, theatres, museums, banks and airlines, there are various grades of the hotel restaurant, there are still remains of the old style of the old streets of Hanoi, in old street walking in Rome will be walked to the Kiem. Lake while not large, but had a Reiki, and not just because the Kiem legends varied. Little Lake has two small islands, Habitat of the North-Bridge Yushan Islands to the shore, the island has a dedicated to Guandi-Ngoc, temple gate on each side of the Chinese couplets accompanied PHENIX. South Island smaller, just enough small turtle tower base, people are not going on. Built in 1884 by tortoise Tower is a multi-storey spires four cornices of small Tower, legendary weather changes in the large turtle climb island in the Sun. We sat in the Lakeside restaurant at the papaya juice, ice breeze, look around at all getting a little stale, day of turtle Tower tranquil under the spotlight, relative to the surrounding the sober side appears especially and thou, that it is set in Hanoi a diamond, a little too much.

Water puppet theatre is the traditional repertoire, Viet Nam is the unique puppet----the actor standing in the water after the operation in the bamboo groves, but also our new year's Eve party.

Puppet theatre every day in a field, jam-packed, sometimes an Encore, the crowd is full of foreigners. Over a long period of Viet Nam is a feudal state of agriculture, the program mostly around the farm fishing, Emperor tour of inspection of subject matter, really ruled out Viet Nam life and history. Adorable puppets, the plot is interesting, with wonderful single banjo playing and singing folk songs, the entire show is full of flavor, because the performances in the water, wanton more adds atmosphere attracted applause.

New year's eve of Lake decorated.

The locals have spread on the grass mats, a family sitting eating snack kids climbing on the mat to roll out, make a small charcoal hawkers oven roasted fish, taste the real scent. The Lake is scenery photography stalls, colourful picture background-optimized theme, of course, can not be separated from 2000 and dancing Dragon, the background a hanging chairs placed in front, small tricycles, around the plug with plastic flowers, pictures of people, really a lot. Selling balloons of large clusters of colored balloons in bicycle rear, maps and postcards around you at breakneck speed, the number of vehicles of Viet Nam television TV car portfolio, a Word.

Loudspeaker over and over again to sing a few songs, I groaned.

Dance Hall was crowded with young people at the door, turn the corner from the inside out voice still pass deafening. On the way up the provisional stage, naive joy jumping children on stage, this one is the scene; that one is a modern youth a black cool too, hand microphone with a floor left and right Akira, the stage is a passionate singing voices, and the audience is the array. The stage is surrounded, Wai a lisancengwaisanceng. Bustling, bustling.

Lake roads may be closed, a car, we packed in one heap, forward movement.

12 a.m., came the gales of guns, the hotel waiter Mr. Ruan and gestures tell we are Fireworks.

So I step on slippers ran out of the hotel station to the edge of the road, Hanoi towers, we could see the South and the East two Fireworks, greedy I head shake tired.

Viet Nam's new year's Eve also has a habit of custom.

The hotel only for our company, Mr. Nguyen, we have a drink, his two brothers and a few friends have also come. Hotel Hall with large trees in blossom, the Center with large tub of kumquat, custom and Cantonese. We drink in the lobby, the Viet Nam red wine, stumbled chat-optimized language difficult to pass, peeling peanut head melon seeds-optimized had red seeds, it's Guangdong specialty. Early morning, Mr. Ruan has the kind of free access to much of Viet Nam, the driver of a square rice dumplings, taste and Guangdong Zhaoqing not wrapped in orchids. They only very little English, our communication is not easy, but their friendship and passion we put the day before the occurrence in houyiguan unhappy extinguished. Remember that a sentence of the second part: the people are friendly (when we go after the entire Viet Nam, feel more deeply).

Lunar New year, the locals like temple pilgrimage, a temple, single-column Pavilion, a treasured Buddhist temple, Holy temples, and other official is floating banners

Drift, incense and wreaths, crowded. Even before the Ho Chi Minh mausoleum also has a drop of small URN, several officers face people here offered incense.

We sat coloring Nordström (Xich Lo, a former push human tricycles) long wearing Street lanes, in front of the old trees slowly see the sky, the driver behind shout something fine and he's a long story but have listened to the word "Temple"--similar to the Cantonese pronunciation.

A turn to see the side of the head little "off", the color of our Nu has cycled in anymore as the door.

Built in the early years of the Confucius Temple in 1070 is called Viet Nam in the history of the world's first University, it combines the functionality of the temple and the College.

Wedding rites, and worship, Confucius, hung in the Qing dynasty Kangxi Emperor wrote "all ages" holdings well-kept:; skylight shaft sides neatly with the surviving 82 block jinshi tablet, each tablet is a turtle the size of the keg, all shapes, documenting detailed, carving; temple dedicated to Confucius wood like and a dozen statue of sages. Because of the temple are all Chinese characters, and the architectural style and Chinese temples are similar, so into the temple would have to go home feeling.

Temple gate, red paper written by calligraphy from so-and-so, spurred the temple, seen a lot of people happy Yin Yin Viet Nam to hold the ink was dry on banners, released a few Chinese characters, are inspirational or lucky, Chinese culture esteemed in Viet Nam.

But don't do not know, a look startled the calligrapher's pen is not a dollar and a large soft brush of watercolor, occasionally there are filling the pen?

Leave the narrow old streets through the neat Embassy district of Northwest to city bus station Plaza, the road is becoming more and more wide, housing is becoming more and more here.

Sit on the West to the East of the buses Pavilion Plaza is open, its status as our Tiananmen Square. Most xitou is granite blocks of Ho Chi Minh mausoleum, the solemn feeling. A huge number of surface on both sides of the flag is fluttering flag and the flag, very stylish. And Ho Chi Minh mausoleum chimed in that national government buildings and the Pavilion Hall. The north side of the square is green tree complements the deep yellow under the Presidential Palace, the Plaza on mostly lawn, Ho Chi Minh mausoleum faces on the way to the implant filled with pink peach, many people in the group photo with peach, road end is point has long open fire altars.

New year is really good, really good.