Unit 05. Vietnamese Food and Drink. Lesson 7. Looking back & project

Welcom to our project
“Sửu nhi” group
Hi! I’m Mai. Am I cute?
Hi! I’m Duyen
Hi! I’m Quynh handsome
Hi! I’m Ngan
Hi! I’m Giang
Dong Ho Paintings
Dong Ho Painting - Wedding of the Mouse
Dong Ho painting or Dong Ho folk woodcut painting is a genre of Vietnamese folk painting, stemming from Dong Ho village ( Dong Ho commune, Thuan Thanh district, Bac Ninh province). Vietnamese people bought Dong Ho pictures to hang them on their wall for a year, and then replaced them by new ones when a new year was coming. 
Apart from the beauty of lines and layouts, the folk feature of Dong Ho painting also lays on its color and paper; both are handmade and derived from materials available in nature.
The paper is made of bark of tree named “do” and powder of seashells and glutinous rice whilst colors of paint used in Dong Ho pictures are processed from various kinds of natural materials easily found in Vietnamese villages.
For example: The black color is taken from ash of burned bamboo leaves; the red is from red gravel; the yellow is from flowers.
Some Dong Ho paintings
Ba Trieu
The Carp
The mouse’s wedding includes two parts
Mouse’s wedding painting
Part 1
Part 2
Mouse’s Wedding painting
Part 1: four mice are dedicating (dâng) a dove (chim bồ câu) and a fish to a cat. The mouse is dedicating the dove for the cat is very afraid and trembling. The mouse is dedicating the fish for the cat is afraid, too and it is falling the fish
* Meaning: the mice have to dedicate fish and dove to the cat because they want to have a peaceful wedding.
Groom
Part 2 of the painting is about a wedding of mouse: bride mouse is sitting in the palankeen (cái kiệu) and a mouse is holding the parasol (cái lọng) to cover for the groom mouse.
Meaning of the painting: Vietnamese want to have a well off (no ấm) life and denounce (tố cáo) someone who are robing (bóc lột) another people.
*Many topics of Dong Ho Painting:
Spirit (Tâm linh) picture
History picture
Picture about folk tale (câu chuyện dân gian)
Wish (chúc tụng) picture
Life picture
1.Spirit picture
Mouse’s wedding painting
Thien at - Vu dinh 
Bo ngu su
2.History picture

Thanh Giong
Ba Trieu
Tran Hung Dao
3.Picture about folk tale
Thach Sanh
Luc Van Tien
4.Wish picture
Ms.Nguyet and Mr.To
(Bà Nguyệt và Ông Tơ)
Glory
(Vinh hoa)
5.Life picture

Coconut inspiration
(Hứng dừa)
Herd and tootle
(Chăn trâu, thổi sáo)
Jealous
(Đánh ghen)
Based on the information about Dong Ho paitings and our own ideas, we dowload from Internet 2 pictures of trees then compare them.
*Same: - Both of 2 pictures are drawed about tree
- Both of 2 pictures are drawed by water color
- Both of them have many different color

*Difference:
The first picture, there are a road is surrounded by many tall trees after the rain. The cold colors and the hot colors blended become a great array of colors.
The second picture, there are 4 seasons: spring, summer, autumn, winter. In spring, the leaves are green. In summer, the leaves are purple. In autumn, the leaves are orange. In winter, there are no leaves. And the scenes are different. The colors are used stabilization.
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