 Thanh Chuong Viet Palace is Mr. Thanh Chuong's outstanding unique cultural art space which is famous in Vietnam and the world, recognized as the soul of Vietnam. Thanh Chuong Viet Palace is a destination in Vietnam which contains the essence of cultural, spiritual, state heritage of Vietnamese people. Thanh Chuong, born in a large family in 1949, and Thanh Chuong, since his early childhood, was intended by his father, writer Kim Lan, to be a painter. He started to draw when he was six years old and in 1960 he passed the entrance examination to Vietnam Institute of Fine Arts. He's an artist and you can see some of his very famous and many people all over the world want to buy his work. And his father is a writer, Kim Lan, and at the same time his father was an actor too. He acted in the film, Lang Vu Dai Ngay Ae. He's an imitation of his father when he acted as an actor in the film. To remember his father, his father's corner, the place to remember Kim Lan, the writer. During the resistance war, he became a soldier and served in the army throughout nine years. There he was a bombed disposal soldier and at the same time an art teacher giving drawing lessons for soldiers. After the restoration of peace, he has been working as a painter for Vietnam's prestigious literature and art weekly magazine up till now. His famous for his paintings, rich and vivid colors and an individual style, characteristic of Vietnamese contemporary folk art. So this is where the ancient water puppets- Water puppets. And look at the bridge. Yes. Middle stone. Ancient. Ancient stone. Long, long time ago. From Tinh Vinh, you know, from Highland of Vietnam. And here, here, thousand years old, more than thousand years old, small elephant made of stone. He specializes in locker and oil paintings. His painting exhibitions have been held in many foreign countries since 1974. Thanh Chua Wong, according to art critic Bu Nhu Hong, and he writes, Thanh Chua Wong is an extraordinary artist, a famed leader of Vietnam's art world. Ever since he started drawing at age six, Thanh Chua Wong's passion and special talent have been recognized with countless awards. It can be said that art has become his way of life. His vision, and his own personal school of thought. The artist has a highly individual and unique way of looking at the world, paired with an intelligent and flexible aesthetic sensibility. So did he get this and put this here? Yeah, he got it from in province Ninh Binh, 100 kilometers from Hanoi and brought it here. We can sit silently to drink green tea early in the morning. Early in the morning after doing the exercise, we may sit here to drink green tea. Strong green tea. Farmers use to catch fish, you catch fish and put it in. Grab and fish, here for fish. They cannot come out anymore. Yeah, you cannot come out. Here is the farmer's house in the past. We use mud to build it. Here is clay, clay, clay to build the house. So that it will be warm in winter and will be cool in summer. Many ancient stone sculptures. He stays here sometimes, he uses oil lamps for the workers to do even at night. Oh, so he works a lot. I like to build this house. So he asked the government to do as he wished. He built and then disliked it, he destroyed and then built again. That house he built three times until he thinks that it's okay. He gets happy with it. This seventh century? This seventh century. Here is a newly made statue. I made two and gave him one. So you're the sculptor of this? Yeah, easy limit for me. When I was seven years old, I sit on the buffalo's back and then play. And you play the flute? Yeah, flute. And this is you? This is my imitation to remember my young age. I built two, opposite, two opposite like this. Wonderful. If I put two in opposite position, it's not nice. Here lonely but very nice. It is the imitation to remember my young age. But newly made. Saber and steel. I can make one for you. When was this made? When did you make this? In 1990. For Tantyu Wong to paint is to play. He changes composition, turns things this way and that way and plays tricks on us, though he were performing circus. Shape and line evolve in unexpected, unimaginable ways to bring out the eccentricity, the humor and the joy of his subject. All subjects are fair game. He effortlessly renders them in his personal artistic language that is unmistakably Tantyu Wong. He realized even at a young age the affinity between modern art simplification of its graphic language and tendency towards pristine primitivism with Vietnam's own folk aesthetic. With his strong talent and individualistic style, it didn't take long for Tantyu Wong to digest these influences and create for himself a personal artistic language.