Vietnam Culture & PeopleExtremely rare wood blocks describe Vietnam’s folk culture
The History and Revolution Museum of Thua Thien - Hue province, has received a set of rare wood blocks with stories to tell. During a field trip to take photos of pagodas in Nguyen Phuoc Bao Dan from the Cultural Research Institute’s Some of the blocks are carved with Chinese scripts, some with Nom scripts and some with a modern Vietnamese scripts. The most unique wood blocks are spells to expel demons. Cao Huy Hung, director of the Thua Thien – Hue History and The museum is about to print the content of the 54 blocks as part of an exhibition about
VietNamNet/Dan Tri Post By: alotourist
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