MASTERS who taugh me “VO COC”

Many books of martial arts have been written, but it is strange when a martial arts branch is written by a doctor associate professor, named “Vo Coc” that makes the fans of Kim Dung’s swordsmanship stories think of the great martial arts skills “Ham Mo Cong”

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VIETNAMESE LUNAR NEW YEAR Festival  in the background of VIETNAMESE SOCIETY at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century

The Vietnamese people, from time immemorial, with the wet rice civilization, have many traditional celebrations and folk festivals full of significance and joy. They include the new rice festival held at the end of the summer spring crop to the hunting rite, the end-of-spring and beginning-of-summer festivals such as the first month rain and insects killing festivals… They are a series of ritual days. Particularly, to bid farewell to winter, the Vietnamese ancestors celebrated a grand Festival or Lunar New Year Festival.

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