List of Vietnamese inventions and discoveries explained

This is a list of Vietnamese inventions and discoveries which includes technological, cultural and historical inventions. This list is incomplete.

Food processing

• Nem chua is a fermented pork dish from Vietnamese cuisine. It is mainly composed of a mixture of lean pork and thin strips of cooked rind, garnished with garlic and chilli.

Game

• Flappy Bird by Dong Nguyen in 2014.^[1]
• Tam cúc is a multi-trick card game popular in North Vietnam.^{[2] [3]}
• Tò he is a traditional toy for children in Vietnam which is made from glutinous rice powder in form of edible figurine such as animals, flowers or characters in folk stories.^[4]
• Tổ tôm^[5]
• 7554: Glorious Memories Revived is a first-person shooter video game developed by Vietnamese video game developer Emobi Games for Windows. It was released for Vietnamese markets on December 16, 2011.
• Shadow Era is a free online digital collectible card game created by Vietnamese developer Wulven Studios. Cross platform gameplay is central to the digital version's design and it is supported on PC, Mac, iOS, and Android. It was released on February 24, 2011.^[6]
• Garena Free Fire battle royale made by 111 Dots Studio and published by Garena.^[7]

Music and instruments

Folk music

• Ca Huế
• Ca trù is an ancient Vietnamese music genre.
• Chầu văn
• Nhạc tài tử
• Quan họ
• Vọng cổ
• Xẩm

Musical instruments

• Bro, is a traditional musical instrument of the Bahnar, Sedang, Rhađe, Jarai, and Giẻ Xtiêng peoples of the Central Vietnam Highlands. It is a tube zither.
• Cảnh
• Dong Son drum
• Đàn bầu, is a Vietnamese stringed instrument, in the form of a monochord (one-string) zither.
• Đàn đá
• Đàn đáy
• Đàn môi
• Đàn gáo
• Đàn nhị
• Đàn sến
• Guitar phím lõm
• Gong
• K'lông pút
• K'ni
• Ngoc Lu drum
• Phách
• Sáo
• Sênh tiền
• Song loan
• T'rung
• Trống cái
• Trống chầu
• Trống cơm

Technology

• pdfTeX by Hàn Thế Thành.
• NanoDragon satellite ^[8]
• VNI by Hồ Thành Việt

Theatre

• Cải lương
• Chèo
• Chú Tễu is a type of puppet used in water puppetry.
• Hát tuồng
• Water puppetry

Painting

• Đông Hồ painting is a genre of Vietnamese art.
• Sơn Mài or lacquer painting.
• Hàng Trống painting is a genre of Vietnamese art
• Vietnamese calligraphy is the style of calligraphy using the Vietnamese alphabet.

Sport

• Cow Racing^[9]
• Vovinam is a Vietnamese martial art.

Other

• Phong reflection model
• Phong shading
• Proof of Fundamental lemma for automorphic forms by Ngô Bảo Châu
• Chữ Nôm is the classical writing system of Vietnam.
• Coracle

Notes and References

1. Web site: What is Flappy Bird? The game taking the App Store by storm. 2021-10-04. www.telegraph.co.uk.
2. Wudarczyk. Jude. 1997. Tam Cúc, the game of three chrysanthemums. XXVI. 1. 2–8.
3. Web site: National and regional card games: Vietnam. 2021-10-04. www.pagat.com.
4. Web site: 2009-02-19. VietNamNet Bridge. 2021-10-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20090219120300/http://english.vietnamnet.vn/features/2008/09/801689/. 2009-02-19.
5. Web site: Andy's Playing Cards - South-Eastern Asia - part III - Vietnam. 2021-10-04. a_pollett.tripod.com.
6. Web site: Shadow Era TCG. 2021-10-04. Metacritic. en.
7. Web site: Thakkar. Aniket. Free Fire: Which country is the game from?. 2021-10-04. www.sportskeeda.com. en-us.
8. Web site: 2021-10-04. How Vietnam's NanoDragon Nanosatellite is Helping to Level the Aerospace Playing Field. 2021-10-04. AZoNano.com. en.
9. Web site: Traditional Vietnamese Sports . 2023-04-26 . i Tour Vietnam . en-gb.