Traditional Vietnamese Fan Dance

Performance at the imperial theater in Hue, Vietnam.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Hue
• Vietnam
• Dance

[nguyennhunhi]

It's Vietnam! Not China, not Korea, Not Japan. Vietnam - A Diffirent Orient!

[lotomo100]

tuyệt vời!

[twinqletwinqle]

@insanerhapsodist Actually how do you know it's 'Chinese' and not 'Vietnamese' based? Who influenced who?

Both people have lived in the region for a very long time.

In fact if you look up the history of Vietnam you're realise that Vietnamese people used to own Quangdong.

[acatisfinetoowut]

It's interesting that both China and Korea have a very similar fan dance to the Vietnamese one.

[llcdem123]

@dantepaz1977

Who are you to tell a culture that their practices are not as good as your own. This just shows ignorance. I am just saying, ayaw kong makiaway

[dantepaz1977]

we call it abanico in the PHILIPPINES we use it when the weather is very HOT!!!!

got thet it is usually made from the leaves of Anahaw Scientific tem is Levistona rotundifolia and it is wooven artisticaaly got that?

In my country a lot of beautiful dances using this pan, and your dance is not as good as our own dances in the philippines cause it requires skills to use it not just by simply holding it.

[hoasenhong]

along time ago in China there were many kingdoms ruled by different groups of people (ethnics), then they were all conquered by the Han and their culture was incorporated into the mainstream Han culture. If you see similarity between Chinese and some other Asian ethnic, don't hastily assume that the other Asian ethnic got it from the Chinese. Just as how Chinese culture is mixed, Viet culture is also a blend of the Au Lac and the Han, and recently with the Cham, Khmer, and other minorities.

[hoasenhong]

(continued) They're called fan dances because fans are used to dance in these dances. Fans are commonly used in Asia for decoration, from countries like Thailand, Cambodias, Laos to countries like Japan and Korea. It's no wonder to see that fan dances exist in so many ethnics in Asia. Even a kid can pick up a fan and whirl around (which forms the basic movements of fan dances). Also keep in the mind that the Chinese culture itself is a mixed of many cultures as someone said bc...

[hoasenhong]

Sorry bryan, but the more you speak, the more clueless and ignorant you sound...as much ignorant as the idiots who perceive that all Asians have skin/hair like Chinese and think therefore all Asians came from Chinese. These "fan dances" are common in many ethnic groups in Asia, not just the Chinese...even some minorities in VN who have been living isolated on mountains for centuries with no Chinese influence have these fan dances...(continued below)

[nguoivietonao]

Common your guys. Civilization of a country came from many places, mixed and remixed. It is not important the where it came from. See what of Japanese civilization and technoloies, they borrowed from China, Korea, Western Countries, but they refined it, and make it unique. They have no problem to acknowledge it. Why? They are very proud people, they have no inferior complex like us...

Xin loi nhe qui dan anh, em chi muon gop chut y kien thoi