Hanoi, Friday 30 January 2009 - the 5th day of the lunar New Year - Tết 2009, the Year of the Buffalo. Myself, sister and her friends rented a taxi and we went to the Museum of Ethnology. From 29 January to 1 February there were many activities and traditional games at the Museum for celebrating the lunar New Year. They were performed by Vietnamese and ethnic minority people who came from other provinces in Vietnam. Some activities and games were bamboo-stick dancing (the Thai), swinging (the Viet), tug of war (the Viet), Đông Hồ woodblock paintings (the Viet), water puppetry (the Viet), playing "còn" ritual balls (the Thai), making clay cracker and buffalo shaped toys (the Viet), dancing and love-exchange singing (the Hani, Lu and Cong), pan-pipe, leaf-horn, jew's harp playing (the H'mong) etc. We
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