Spouses of GMS leaders learn about life of Vietnamese women in history
Spouses of leaders of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), who are in Hanoi for the sixth GMS Summit (GMS-6), visited the Vietnamese Women’s Museum in downtown Hanoi on March 31 to learn about the life and cultural heritage of Vietnamese women throughout history.
Wife of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Tran Nguyet Thu, accompanied wife of the Lao PM, Naly Sisoulith and wife of the Thai PM, Naraporn Chan-o-chan to visit the museum while their spouses are busy on the final day of the GMS-6 Summit and the 10th Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam (CLV-10) Development Triangle Summit.
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Wife of Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Tran Nguyet Thu (second, right), accompanies wife of the Lao PM, Naly Sisoulith (second, left) and wife of the Thai PM, Naraporn Chan-o-chan (first, left) to visit the Vietnamese Women’s Museum on March 31 (Photo: VNA)
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The ladies were introduced about the history of the museum and told about great stories of Vietnamese women in wartime as well as in peacetime. They also learnt about the life of local women through exhibitions of roles of women in family, women in history, and women’s costumes of various ethnic minority groups.
The Thai and Lao ladies expressed their respect for the good virtues of Vietnamese women and their contribution throughout the country’s history. They also raised many questions about the uniqueness of Vietnamese women in different regions.
After their tour around the museum, the ladies enjoyed a performance of “chau van”, the ritual music and singing, part of the practices related to the Viet beliefs in the Mother Goddesses of Three Realms which was inscribed on the Representative List of the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2016.
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The ladies enjoy a performance of “chau van”, the ritual music and singing, part of the practices related to the Viet beliefs in the Mother Goddesses of Three Realms. (Photo: VNA)
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