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 Wysłany: Sob 4:25, 21 Maj 2011 Temat postu: Hoi An - Over 500 Years Of Colorful Uniqueness |
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dence of this uniqueness is partly apparent in the external exterior of the streets with old, moss-encrusted architectural goes with their ancient decorative patterns and in the extant names of the lanes. It can be found in the unions and pate quarters of the guilds of differ styles and adoring sculptures imbued with distinctive East Asian functions of the glorious past. The beauty of the city's old streets expresses something that cannot be lightly arrested, with their countryman cultural depth that has been formed and nurtured from integration and institution, accordingly the particular and unmistakable colour of the city.
Isn't it the cause why Hoi An is always animated and busy, yet not boisterous, sustaining its normal truce and calm in malignity of the changes that time has brought. People of all ages and nationalities, who have mingled with the life of the town, weaved through the stream of its traffic, visited its old sites of amuse, has a gentle speak with its people, and shopped here and there, will quickly accomplish the gentleness and grace of the ancient town. This simple and plain cultural quality is equitable like an early morning mist shrouding the context and social life indeed, unpretentiously, and exactly as the trading port is shrieked in Vietnamese.
These days, on the nightfall of the 15th daytime of the lunar months, entire families in the city douse the electric lights and hang up their fantasy lanterns of all fashions and forms. Loopahs and pumpkins, octagons and merry-go-rounds, all flickering from nightfall till dawn rotate the antique streets into a glittering fantasy land, attracting more and more people onto the roads. One day for the spectators voicelessly walked on and on, contemplating the lanterns and the avenues, I was 1 amid them, mixing and mingling with them and production the mose of the lofty pleasures of contemplation, windows-shopping or enjoying the nightfall snacks and delicacies. At each corner, Hoi An was engulfed in an air of open-heartedness, rustic anyhow elegant, simple but colourful, plain as the chracters of its taint and the moralities of its folk, someone intermingled between the true and the artificial, between poetry and drawing, between the present and the quondam between introspection and external settings. On such nights, you want to stay {awake|awake} all night with Hoi An since wherever you go you'll get some feeling of mysterious addition.
I soon found myself in an old house, a quite wealthy merchant's home, built 400 annuals ago, still standing there intact as a historical witness to the city. With the exception of 2 brick wall, it was built of iron lumber,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], glistening with the passageway of time, decorated with perpendicular and curtate wooden plaques, panels and couplets flowing calligraphy in the lounge, including this exceptionally interesting poem:
As the apricot blooms try to bloom ahead the others,
How beautiful those snow-white flowers on the far mountains are
Contemplating the spectacular landscape,
who could realizeThe charm of spring by the agreeable moment of paradise and earth
The personal properties of the rich in Hoi An forever includes a "behind garden", diverse additional areas of the nation. Often this area is doted with rare bonsai factories as the employer to enjoy during leisure times, feasting his eyes aboard the miniature outlooks and reciting poems.
Thuong Chua Cau - Ha Am Bon is the main axis that leads to the hub of the town. Along its side escapes scampers the Hoai Pho River weaving through the old streets. This name brought me some sweet nostalgia of the past. It was a Vietnamese connection of the term "Faifo" given by the European magnates, implying an urban area with a trading port, or a "port city", to be summarize. The Chinese in Hoi An, however, affirmed it in their own way, transcribing it into "Hoai Pho",[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], to indicate their longing for the ancient town. Either term accurately expresses what exist in Hoi An.
And favor the emotions invoked by the name "Hoai Pho", those who voyage forward the antique str
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