Exhibition of Goddesses Worshipping in Vietnamese Women’s Museum

The worship of Goddesses is a long-standing belief and very popular in Vietnam, a wet-rice cultivation country, where the female plays an important role in the development of the economy.

The worship of Goddesses is a long-standing belief and very popular in Vietnam, a wet-rice cultivation country, where the female plays an important role in the development of the economy. The belief worships Mothers, appreciates their reproductive power, fertility, and honors their value and role in family life and the community.

 
Since 2009, Vietnamese Women’s Union has been running a project for the exhibition “Worshipping Mother Goddesses: Heart – Beauty – Joy” with sponsorship from Ford Foundation and the The Centre for Research Support and Development of Culture. The researchers interviewed hundreds of worshippers who live mainly in the North of Vietnam like Hanoi, Lao Cai, Nam Dinh and Thanh Hoa to get information about the belief of Goddesses in contemporary Vietnamese life.
 
 
"Lên đồng" - Part of Goddesses Worshipping
 
The exhibition, which is opened on 5thJanuary 2012, is expected to impress visitors by sophisticated mixture of colors in ritual picture, the unique of “Chầu văn” singing, sacred items involved in arranging altars, offerings, costumes and jewelry.
 
The event takes place at Vietnamese Women’s Museum (36 Ly Thuong Kiet Street, Hanoi). Ticket price is VND 15,000 and available at the museum’s gate.

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