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

Hi! I’m
Duyen

Hi! I’m
Quynh
handsome

Hi! I’m
Ngan
Hi! I’m
Giang

Hi! I’m
Mai.
Am I
cute?

“Sửu nhi” group


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.


Ba Trieu

The Carp
Some Dong Ho paintings


Part 1
Mouse’s wedding painting
Part 2
The mouse’s wedding includes two parts


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.


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.

Groom


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

Bo ngu su

Thien at - Vu dinh 


2.History picture

Ba Trieu

Thanh Giong

Tran Hung Dao


3.Picture about folk tale

Luc Van Tien
Thach Sanh


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.