Vietnam has 50 ethnic instruments, including percussion is the most popular, most diverse and oldest origin (drums, gongs, forums rock, welling meters above ...). Ministry of common steam flute, praise, and most unique stringed monochord and dan.
Category and folk Vietnam greatly varies throughout Central, South and North: from recitation, singing, to sing quan ho Dating, military drum, oval, dum, bishop, ca Hue, all huts, justice, besides Xam singing, chau van, ca tru.
Traditional theatrical art with opera, classical opera. Water puppetry is a kind of special traditional stage there from the Ly. Early 20th century, appeared in southern reformed with dance record.
Vietnam timbre art generally symbolic, expressive, conventional methods used manually, rich lyricism. Traditional theater intimate exchanges with viewers and synthetic forms of dance music. Vietnam dance movement less powerful but smooth curving lines, legs closed, dance as the main hand.
In Vietnam, stone carvings, bronze, terracotta, born very early dating to 10,000 BC. Later glaze pottery, wooden statues, mosaic, lacquer, silk paintings, painting paper developed to the level of high art. Vietnam Fine Arts expresses inner focus that abridged form, many players use stylized approach, emphasized.
Following 2014 cultural monuments, history is recognized by the State and two monuments is the ancient capital of Hue, Ha Long Bay is internationally recognized. Ancient architecture rest mainly some temple-tower of the Ly-Tran; palace-beer Le dynasty, 18th century village, citadel-tombs of the Nguyen and the Cham tower.
The 20th century, exposure to Western culture, especially after the country's independence, the new art forms such as drama, photography, film, music and dance and modern art was born and developed strong, obtained great achievements with content reflecting real life and revolutionary.
So until mid-1997, there were 44 people working culture-art received Ho Chi Minh Prize, 130 people the title of People's Artist, who in 1011 was awarded the title of Artist of Merit, Special two recipients of international awards for music as Dang Thai Son (music Chopin Prize) and Ton Nu Nguyet Minh (League music Tchaikovski).
As of early 1997, there were 191 professional art troupes and 26 studios, film studios, including central and local. Has 28 feature films, 49 newsreel-scientific documentation and received international awards in many countries.
Traditional ethnic culture does precede the national industrialization and modernization, facing fierce challenges of the market economy and globalization trends. Many arts and cultural sector is somewhat slowed, pathfinder and self-innovation.
More than ever raises the issue of conservation and development of national culture, the problem of choosing the old values, build new values. Conservation but still have an open culture. Modern but not far from the nation. The innovation culture continues