Renovation of Hue s Nam Giao Esplanade, where Nguyen kings offered their annual prayers, has started and is expected to complete in 2023. - VnExpress International
Vietnam feudal era library reopens after 75 years
By Vo Thanh March 17, 2021 | 03:01 pm GMT+7
Tang Tho Chamber, a Nguyen Dynasty library, stands at the center of Ngoc Hai Lake in the Hue Imperial Citadel. Photo by VnExpress/Vo Thanh.
The Tang Tho Chamber, a national library under the Nguyen Dynasty, the last Vietnamese kings, has begun welcoming visitors in central Hue town after being closed for 75 years.
The chamber displays more than 70,000 documents in diverse genres, including books in the ancient Vietnamese script of Han Nom, ancient bibliographies, archeologic works related to the Nguyen Dynasty, books on arts, architecture, culture, religious beliefs, linguistics and cartography.
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