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Lotus – Vietnam’s national flowers

From childhood , we have known by heart the folk song and the lotus flowers are alike to Vietnamese people’s symbol.

” Trong đầm gì đẹp bằng sen,

Lá xanh bông trắng lại chen nhị vàng,

Nhị vàng bông trắng lá xanh,

Gần bùn mà chẳng hôi tanh mùi bùn”

In English, we can temporarily translate as below

In the pond, the lotus flower is beautiful

Green leaves, white flowers, yellow stamens

Yellow stamens, white flowers, green leaves

Near mud but it does not stink like mud.

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Hanoi, 12 flower seasons

Perhaps, almost people only know Hanoi where is different to other cities by 4 seasons, spring, summer, autumn and winter. However, as for local people, the loving point of Hanoi is twelve flowers season according to 12 months in a year. For more than 20 years I have been living there, it seems as my hometown and also it is very closed to me with romantic beauty.

Let’s discover which flower in each month.

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