Showing posts with label Saigon Style. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saigon Style. Show all posts

Sunday, 25 December 2011

Said the style of Saigon

Speaking of style, ordinary people in the city of Saigon Vietnam, we should rely on the following basis:

• It is called style, at least style it also comes from more than half a century or more, can not look at the phenomenon of some thirty years gone. And in the future, the old style still exist, develop, difficult to change the core.


• Style of Saigon over the country there is nothing unusual. Where the people of Vietnam that is not hospitable, significant financial means contempt, nimble, hard work, but in Saigon-style bold it may appear, in some sense.


Style by heaven and earth to give, but to shape the situation forced people to adapt, integrate, otherwise prone to rejection. Adapting to survive, rise up. Circumstances due to economic activities, with particular rules. Who knows, it's civilized sea (port of Saigon, since the country opened 300 years ago), to communicate with other Southeast Asian countries, followed by Western countries. Saigon is also bustling with river civilizations of the Cuu Long. At the same time, Saigon was not an important international port. That when the port area, there is always much needed services, to purchase goods and goods distribution ... DDE life relatively easier compared to farmers in remote, deep. The port city must have the necessary infrastructure such as housing, roads, sewers, hospitals, schools, dining, entertainment ...

One important factor must be mentioned, which is on open water, from the self-contained villages with bamboo, in villages was extended, only vague boundaries of administrative management. The village was left without a close tie of feudal morality, to the family. With time Hoi An Nguyen Lords, ex king to promulgate a regulation to the south easy. Past the prison, often forced to commit to reclaiming still unconscious. Away from home, but still attached to the Ma River, Red River, the water thereof was a young band, share a common history, a culture, particularly of core traditions remain, through festivals, culture, literature ...

The popular Saigon also heard the news, called to find much information, so is the food press is needed. They read the newspapers to understand the overall situation, especially information related to work of their daily food. Lack of information, it turns out backward, failed to do, because the situation always changes every hour, every minute. And because this industry-related sectors, one must read the newspaper to check for completeness. Sitting cafe reading the newspaper, waiting for friends, who do not read newspapers, then listen to people who read summaries gium. We are not surprised to see newspapers selling, especially on Saigon Liberation, needed to understand way for all citizens. Cong An, Ho Chi Minh City-selling novel, with the taste of many world: message authentication, read up happy. Even know the tricks to prevent manh time. Read the newspaper for entertainment, car ads, housing does not sit well ... useless.

Communicating with friends, find new friends and exchange phone numbers together, business cards. Eating sundry, who pay well, but other professions but who knows what will help you there. Get familiar with his wife cyclo what circumstances is a chance for a merchant. The unemployed can also help us when possible.Sales service to the fair, large and small. Make eating fun, regardless of their partners past, how long is to keep credibility. Who's in trouble, signal loss can, but be humble apology.

Longer to heal, with a small party and ignored, but by law Wanderer is "no more than eight," that is the third time will not be tolerated.

Generosity, to think that most of Saigon who sa world of furniture, so help-hearted, but do not misunderstand it as innocent, naive. Is the least natural disasters should be easy to live. There are many miscellaneous services, thus the poor to survive, even if it can be quite difficult to be a few months. "Progress is the internal, only the foreign," and the rear is quite strong, it is relative, the wife relatives, friends or even reinforced in the eastern plains.

The Sister in Saigon South in particular and generally quite flexible, good at doing business, especially in small business training, frequency of algae farming husband, limitations for the parents. There is also the habit of lending money to contribute and earn money through this loan, "as any fried meal was dinner." I saw all day, even up to 8 hours late shoppers still buy vegetables, rice, fish.

Desires to travel, especially to temples and shrines in the rumored appearance of a friend. Thought polytheistic, as well as something, well believe, to pray for good fortune market economy is the risk may result, so rich they do not dare resistant holy contempt, poverty, the cloth to be good luck.

The most positive definition of Saigon was doing charity, the emotional, lovely people. Always help people with disabilities, victims of floods, natural disasters, with the concept of "no rich three families, three generations no one is difficult."

Currently, the style of Saigon's still showing quite clearly. Although the time allocated to market economy, a number of young people displaying signs of superficial, but more than 50 years old, who also returned to power with memories, with spirituality.

Saigon Style

There is a Saigon Vietnam style formed many generations of people living here, as everywhere convergence of sediment piled layers throughout the long history of reclaiming the land.


Since the mid-seventeenth century, the region in general and the South Saigon in particular is a convergence of many different communities in circumstances. From Central impoverished strip of land, the people against the feudal institutions, the prisoners were brought here Lord Nguyen reclaiming career. Then the soldiers of his time in Nam build up savings, formed the colonist rule. Then the pursuit of the Tay Son army commanded by Nguyen Nhac do tan soldiers now share Nghe Anh Nguyen, a large number of rooted here.


The land is vibrant even in the presence of large traders as well as the brutal U.S. military Ming carrying the Chinese Manchu willed revenge, along with the local Khmer people to do tha. All gathered here, who brought the adventurous temperament should treat each other is as good as that story line between real drought in such earnest.


Nearly 100 years of French colonial rule, this land both early access to Western civilization. Geographically, the city of Saigon has both an international port should tend to open, other than an urban Hanoi introverted nature. Saigon river and city canals markedly influenced by tides. Nature had deeply affected the life style of Saigon, as received by the poet-historian Trinh Hoai Duc: "The hexagram of Ly Nam, the fire, the hexagram has the air of civilization. So guys here who are critical to learning, the hard-working people ... Why Land of Yangzhou, near the sun, so the more gas, high courage, contempt important financial means. "


All leave the bold mark of a stylish form communities that would later inherit the Saigon almost full.


The blood flow to the people of Sai Gon in the adventurous and sometimes reckless, not uptight think etiquette should say so, like communication. In doing the study in the U.S. to be traded to get first prestige. In social life they absorb the creative spirit and generosity of the West, dare to respond to the wrong thing and come with a strange, new things quickly.


This explains why Saigon is the earliest in the country formed an economy of goods and the latter is where most of the breakthroughs in the maintenance subsidy, as prerequisite for the renewal of year economic life of the social problems seemed insurmountable are.


The flow of history that has appeared a business class style Saigon dynamic, rapidly adapt to business practices of the market, promote creativity and sensitivity to food rather than relying on power relationships. This class entrepreneurs distilled the essence of many areas of convergence, is the market ready for the arms extend and expand the vision of the world and take risks to find opportunities to get rich.


Due to the generous people of Saigon are not allergic to the other places, along with the trend of increasing consumption has led Saigon became the land of healthy birds. To date, more than 300 years old city was no longer enough space for eight million people and millions of visitors. But Saigon also has the ability to quickly neutralize differences to create a very personal style with a comfortable lifestyle and sometimes real need, as to where to place game, definitely want something like of the year the weather has only two seasons.


A place to receive high volume of immigrants to the country sometimes on the street or in the luxury shops of the style appears very "non Saigon." That sounds odd swear, the words say eat coarse edge corners, making the social capital of Saigon being challenged.


But sooner or later it will be increasingly the image fading light, by just making a living on this land in seven years, almost everyone was infected the "Saigon style" soft delete Xue. To remember to Saigon and then went away as the memory of love and eager to bring the mood back when the youth of this city.