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Art
- Strongly influenced by Chinese Buddhist art.
- Influence is seen in pottery, calligraphy and traditional architecture
- Calligraphy used only by scholars and elites
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- Calligraphy hangings made on Lunar New Year that depicted poetry, folk sayings, or single words
Neolithic

  • Pottery dated back from stone age
  • Made from clay
Bronze age
  • Dong Son Drums made from bronze casting
  • Elaborately decorated with geometric patterns
  • Depict everyday life: farming, warriors wearing feather headdresses, ship construction and musicians, and weavers
Ngo to Tran dynasty
  • Ceramics influenced by ancient natives styles, the Tang, then later Song dynasty
  • Applied the three colours concept
  • Landmark structures made such as temple of literature
Music
- Music varies with regions
- Northern classical is the oldest and is more formal
- Can be traced back to the Mongol invasions
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Three widely known genres
- Imperial court music from Tran Dynasty
- Elaborate
- Features array of musicians and dancers in costumes
- Ca trù was a form of chamber music from imperial court
- Came to associate with the geisha-type entertainment
- Quan họ was a type of improvisational music
- Sung acapella
- Used in courtship rituals
- Array of instruments, musicians and dancers wearing elaborate garbs

Literature
- Both oral and written
- Chữ nôm allowed writers to compose in Vietnamese
- Writing system using Chinese characters
- Flourished in 18th century
- Quốc ngữ(17th century)
- Became the current writing style
- Based on Latin alphabet
Poetry
- Most poetry written in Chữ nôm
- Some poetry adapted into song

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_of_Vietnam#Visual_arts