MONIQUE N.

EBALLA
BSBA MA IV
 The Vietnam flag was
officially adopted on
November 30, 1955. The
gold five-pointed star
symbolizes the five
groups of workers in the
building of socialism
(intellectuals, peasants,
soldiers, workers and
youths), while the red
symbolizes bloodshed,
and the revolutionary
struggle.
• Vietnam is located on the eastern Indochina Peninsula, it’s almost the size
of Germany.
• The climate tends to vary considerably from place to place
because of different latitudes.
• Vietnam is one of twenty-five countries considered to possess a
uniquely high level of biodiversity. It is ranked 16th worldwide in
biological diversity, being home to approximately 16% of the
world's species.
• Vietnam has two World Natural Heritage Sites – Hạ Long Bay and
Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park – and six biosphere reserves,
including Cần Giờ Mangrove Forest, Cát Tiên, Cát Bà, Kiên Giang,
the Red River Delta, and Western Nghệ An.
Fansipan, Vietnam Ha Long Bay, Northeast Vietnam

Imperial City
Marble Mountains
• The country’s name was originally spelled as two words, Viet Nam.
• Hanoi is the capital city of Vietnam.
• The body of their first president Ho Chi Minh (Uncle Ho) was embalmed, and is on
display in a mausoleum.
• Their culture is a complex adaptation of Chinese, Japanese, French and American
colonial influences.
• Long-established religions in Vietnam include the Vietnamese folk religion, which has
been historically structured by the doctrines of Confucianism and Taoism from China, as
well as a strong tradition of Buddhism (called the three teachings or tam giáo).
• With an estimated 94.6 million inhabitants as of 2016, it is the world's 14th-most-
populous country, and the ninth-most-populous Asian country.
• To date, Vietnam is technically still a communist country having one-party rule, that is the
Communist Party of Vietnam, under Marxist-Leninist governance. In fact, Vietnam is
among five remaining communist countries today, together with China, Laos, Cuba and,
to a large extent, North Korea.
• Vietnam is divided into 58 provinces. There are also five municipalities which are
administratively on the same level as provinces.
The northern part of Vietnam was part of Imperial
China for over a millennium, from 111 BC to AD 939. An
independent Vietnamese state was formed in 939,
following a Vietnamese victory in the Battle of Bạch
Đằng River. Successive Vietnamese imperial dynasties
flourished as the nation expanded geographically and
politically into Southeast Asia, until the Indochina
Peninsula was colonized by the French in the mid-19th
century.
Trần Tế Xương (5 Sept 1870 – 9 Jan 1907)
 also famous for his pen name, Tú Xương;
 Died at the age of 37;
 Vietnamese poet & satirist;
 One of the most renowned Vietnamese satirist
and poet, for he had a strong influence on
following generations of poets.
 Tran tu Xuong failed several times at the triennial examinations, and for
want of money, he was never able to secure a nomination to the
mandarinate. His failures and poverty left him a very bitter man. He
directed his attacks on the mandarins, civil servants, bourgeois, the
conquerors' domestics. His poetry spread like wildfire throughout the
country.
 Tu Xuong revels in crude images, violent turns of phrase, even indecorum.
However, when he dedicated his rare poems to Phan Boi Chau, a
revolutionary for whom he had great admiration, his tone became serious
and filled with tenderness.
 Tran Te Xuong is the last poet of the period of the chu nôm literature.
Soon a new generation, schooled in Western ways, would pick up the torch
from the scholars of Chinese culture.
 Tea, wine, and women:
My three perpetual plagues.
I must forebear.
I might be able to give up tea, maybe,
And even wine.
 A glimpse of the
Vietnamese Culture & Influential Literature
By MONIQUE N. EBALLA

References
https://www.tinparis.net/vothutinh/English/chunom.htm
http://thefactfile.org/vietnam-facts/
http://www.backyardtravel.com/25-fun-interesting-facts-about-vietnam/
https://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/flags/countrys/asia/vietnam.htm