{"id":1328,"date":"2012-05-15T17:00:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T21:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2012-05-15T17:00:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T21:00:38","slug":"get-to-know-student-tours-to-vietnam-vietnamese-water-puppetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/get-to-know-student-tours-to-vietnam-vietnamese-water-puppetry","title":{"rendered":"Get to Know Student Tours to Vietnam: Vietnamese Water Puppetry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Halong<\/strong><\/p>\n

The art of water puppetry is one of Vietnam\u2019s oldest forms of entertainment and has kept its people captivated for over 1,000 years. Visit Hanoi, Vietnam\u2019s capital city, and you, too, can be awed by these magnificent puppetry performances. The shows are exactly as they\u2019re named: puppet shows over water. And, so much more… Spectacles are enriched by ch\u00e9o (or traditional opera), music, lights, firecrackers and even fire, especially when a mythical dragon makes an appearance. Keep an eye out for Teu, a carefree farmer, who appears in every show to guide you through tales of daily life and keep Vietnamese folklore alive. And with a name that means \u201claughter\u201d in ancient Vietnamese, he\u2019s bound to bring on a belly full of laughs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Water puppetry originated in the rice paddies of northern Vietnam gaining the nickname, \u201cSoul of the Rice Fields,\u201d <\/em>at a time when farmers thought that spirits controlled their crops. After the end of the harvest, farmers would use bamboo figures to entertain the spirits (and prevent them from making mischief) on ponds and paddy fields. Today, you\u2019ll find modern puppeteers hiding behind an imitation pagoda and standing waist-deep in water-filled containers created to resemble a traditional Vietnamese village. And it\u2019s from here where puppeteers master elaborately decorated wooden puppets\u2014some as heavy as 33 pounds\u2014using bamboo rods hidden beneath the water.<\/p>\n

If you want to recreate some marionette magic during bath time back home, you\u2019re unlikely to source any secrets from these Vietnamese puppet masters. That\u2019s because in a world where \u201cwater is thicker than blood,\u201d puppeteers are prepared to break family ties in order to keep their techniques under wraps. Not just under water!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The art of water puppetry is one of Vietnam\u2019s oldest forms of entertainment and has kept its people captivated for over 1,000 years. Visit Hanoi, Vietnam\u2019s capital city, and you, too, can be awed by these magnificent puppetry performances. The shows are exactly as they\u2019re named: puppet shows over water. And, so much more… Spectacles Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,63,172],"tags":[260,58,254,259],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parents","category-students","category-teachers","tag-educational-tours-to-vietnam","tag-educational-travel","tag-get-to-know","tag-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1332,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1328\/revisions\/1332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.explorica.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}