From left: Nguyen Thuy Dung, Vo Nam Du and Thai Quyen – Photo: NVCC
Although young people today use social media a lot, they do not care about the vocabulary of their predecessors. As long as we point out good and beautiful things that are easy to understand and feel, I believe readers will welcome it.
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Rediscover the deep and beautiful values hidden in the original language, expressing them with full passion through each painting. It can’t be anything other than “I love the language of my country, ever since I was born…”.
Insert The Tale of Qiu in a Message Card
He describes the idea of selecting verses from Nam Du The Tale of Qiu and then working with his colleagues to design and illustrate a set of Tarot Qiu cards that appear while reading the article. “Tarot Philosophy and the Tale of Qiu: From Innocence to Gender” By researcher Nhat Chieu. Du said that it is a very interesting, unique approach and close to the youth.
From 22 cards compiled by teacher Nat Chiu, Du and his friends developed 78 cards corresponding to the scenes of the work. The interesting discovery was that while doing so, Nam Du realized that he only knew, but did not really understand Qiu’s story. Because Mr. Nguyen Du’s way of using Vietnamese language from the 18th century is very different from now, not only that, he also uses many classic stories and legends when writing.
The Tale of Qiu message card created by youth in the book The Tale of Qiu and Tarot – Photo: NVCC
During the days of working on the project, my friend not only read, but also studied this work in more depth, searching for related documents. If it was unclear, he had to ask Mr. Nhat Chieu to explain its meaning. Continuing in this manner for six months, after studying the Tarot for two months, Du confidently took the next steps.
As with the graphics, artist Tu Ngo skillfully combined modern elements and applied the fine arts of the Nguyễn dynasty in detail when creating that set of 78 paintings. “I spent about two years looking for materials, drawing and redrawing many times. Now that the results are accepted by everyone, all the fatigue has disappeared,” Tu Ngo said, smiling.
The Tale of Qi message card in the book The Tale of Qi and the Tarot – Photo: NVCC
You recently released the book The Tale of Qiu and the Tarot with suggestions for reading message cards and considering this famous work in many different directions. The group also launched an eBook format so people can read it anywhere.
Picture book “Ancient and Beautiful Words”
“I often read old poems and discover many very poetic, very romantic words that are little used nowadays, sometimes a little difficult to understand for many people, especially young people . I introduced such words on the fanpage and website. Write words every day. When everyone accepted and supported, I and my friends decided to turn the online photo album “Ancient and Beautiful Words” into a book, Nguyen Thuy Dung shared the idea of starting the project.
One of the words presented by Nguyen Thuy Dung and his colleagues in the ancient picture book My Tu – Photo: NVCC
Ancient beautiful words are words that have ancient nuances, have beautiful meanings, and sound sonorous when read, but they are rarely used at present. The 58 words in the book were selected by the youth from several ancient Vietnamese poetic works.
For example, in the poem “Duat van” (three-colored cloud, symbolizing good omen). late trip west “Thien Chapter” (Brilliant, beautiful things like the moon and stars in the sky) by Phan Hue Ich Chinh’s father sang a song By Dang Tran Con, “Peaceful Scene” (Beautiful Scene with Clouds and Smoke, Hidden Scene) in Nguyen Van Sieu’s poem Son Thuy Do…
To be able to create images, you need to find out who the readers are, in order to select images and design styles for the smoothest and most enjoyable reading experience. Thanh Quynh – head of the art department of the project – said, “The team does not dare to hope to revive a class of ancient words, but hopes to give readers a little joy by experiencing the subtle and expressive words in Vietnamese. Does.”
You created the characters of a sister and a wagtail to connect words describing natural scenes with words describing emotions and life. It’s also an interesting feature when these two characters lead the readers throughout the book.
Each painting vividly depicts the literal and figurative meanings of the words through images of contemporary life, creating a contrast with the ancient poems and also bridging the distance between readers and the content.
Painting by young artist Thai Kwen for the poem Moonscape at Dong Ho (Lam Tan Phak) – Photo: NVCC
Vietnamese literature through pictures
Thinking that painting can also be a way to deliver literature to readers, Kim Dong Publishing House selected excerpts from several texts and poems from textbooks that are familiar to many generations of students to launch this project.
in silence (Nguyen Thanh Long), Viet Bac (To Hu), fishing fleet (hue can), Natural landscape of Nghe An (Dang Thai Mai), Thousand Years of Khuong Am Towerý (Lam Linh), Rows of tamarind trees in Saigon (Binh Nguyen Loc)…was “ordered” to turn words into pictures.
book project Marked Zone – Vietnamese scene in literature Gathering 30 artists of different ages and drawing styles to participate.
Thai Kwen, one of the young artists participating in the project, shared that he loves poetry and loves creating illustrations for poetry, so he was very happy to be invited to participate in the project. Quen was commissioned to illustrate excerpts from two poems hometown (Te Han) and Moon view over Dong Ho (Lam Tan Phaik).
Originally from the Central Coast, Kwen said she felt homesick when reading poet Te Han’s words, which beautifully described the scenery. As far as poetry is concerned Moon view over Dong HoYou are most impressed by the poem “The lake is still and the moon is still” (a lake with the moon enhancing the scenery), romantic and beautiful.
“From that source of tremendous emotion, I used colored pencils to draw pictures depicting the vast sky with moonlight, with boats floating along the rolling waves,” said Kwen.
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