Hue city is beautiful in a poetic and soft way, like a true poem. Those who came once in Hue, could never forget Perfume river very calm, or should admire the resplendent palates, the monumental tombs and the splendid natural heritages.
Hue is an old area which belonged, from 179 BC to the end of second century, to Nhật Nam district reigned by the North feudal regimes. Nearly 12 centuries later, this place was the Northern cap of Champa kingdom. At the 13th century, this romantic area, after the marriage between princess Huyen Tran (Tran family) and king Che Man, was integrated into Đại Việt under the name Thuận Hóa (compound of Quang Tri, Thua Thien Hue and a part of North Quang Nam). From the last half of the 15th century, under king Thanh Tong, the geonyme Hue appeared for the first time. During nearly 400 years, Hue was the politics and culture center of the Vietnamese feudality. King Quang Trung chose this place as the capital of Tay Son regime (from 1788 to 1802); under king Gia Long, the capital of Vietnam under the 13 reigns of kings Nguyen (from 1802 to 1945).
Hue has been still an important center of Buddhism with, in addition to the splendid Court monuments, hundreds of old pagodas built for more than 300 years. Moreover, the festivals and the musicology of this place are well developed and characterized by the inhabitants' heart. In the Court, there are Te Giao, Te Xa Tac, Lunar New Year festival ... While the folklore is formed by Hon Chen festival, Hon Ngu festival, and Sinh fight festival... Each festival is characterized by the ceremonies whose the heart is the music. In parallel with musicology, there are the modes of dance, the plays, the Hue folksongs with a pure and simple character of the locality. Moreover, Hue is still regarded as the origin of the Court musicology, the famous traditional dishes and the delicate craft industries.
Centuries passed, the country's elite was filtered and converged in this area to form a culture full with characters of Vietnamese people and a splendid nature picture with mountain and river. Hue is still famous for the body of the cultural vestiges recognized by UNESCO as cultural heritages of the humanity in 1993 with more than 300 architectural monuments composed of the citadels, the palates, the kings Nguyễn's tombs, the temples, the pagodas, the villas... With such a value, the vestiges of Hue old capital are an integral part of the Vietnamese culture, and an element of the inheritances of the humanity.
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