Saint Giong Festival

 Vietnam is located in a region considered a cradle of mankind, one of the earliest agricultural centres practicing wet rice farming, where the stone and metallurgical revolutions took place.

A group of South Vietnamese army soldiers and an American soldier with two captured Vietcong suspects, in Plaines des Joncs, South Vietnam.Credit...Tim Page/Corbis, via Getty Images

Was America’s war in Vietnam a noble struggle against Communist aggression, a tragic intervention in a civil conflict, or an imperialist counterrevolution to crush a movement of national liberation?

The “Drum-signaling man” portraying symbolizing a general of Saint Giong. Photo: Hoang Quang Ha

 Vietnam has an age-old and special culture that is closely attached to the history of the formation and development of the nation.