Hoi An charm appears on Google Doodle July 16: What is the reason Google honors?

Hoi An first appeared on Google Vietnam homepage, what is the reason "giant" honors this beautiful old town?

On July 16, 2019, on June 14th lunar calendar, the artists of Google's Doodle group designed a beautiful and charming Hoi An image under the full moon in the Lantern Festival to honor an old town. but according to the "giant" described as retaining its own ancient features for centuries.

Hoi An's image appears charming with the moon on the Google Vietnam homepage on July 16, 2019.(Photo: Google Doodle).

For tourists who love Hoi An ancient town in the country and all over the world, when they come to this charming land, they cannot forget the beautiful and poetic Hoi An image of the night of the old streets shining in the Lamp Festival. cage.

Hoi An is even more beautiful in the Lantern Festival

On the 14th day of the lunar month, under the full moon, the people of Hoi An ancient town held a sparkling Lamp Festival. At that time, everyone lit incense, turned off the electricity and lit colorful lanterns along pretty small streets.

Just like that . so . hundreds of brightly colored lanterns will become shimmering bands, illuminating the old town in the gentle yellow.

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The name Hoi An means "peaceful meeting place". Indeed, the old town of Quang Nam is beautiful and strange. People hold a Lantern Festival every month to pray for happiness and good things to relatives and friends.

When the Sun disappeared after ancient houses, it was at the same time that the people of the two rivers dropped colorful flower lanterns into the gentle water flow, forming a strip of shimmer in the night of the flower.

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Located on the north bank of the Thu Bon River, right where it empties into the East Sea, Hoi An is one of the busiest international port trade in Southeast Asia from the 15th to the 19th century.

Previously, Hoi An was a place where traders and traders from all over Asia came to Europe. Popular items include cinnamon, ginseng, textiles, ceramics .

In the 1600s, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish, Indian, Filipino, Indonesian, Thai, French, British and American ships docked and left after buying and selling satisfied goods, in Meanwhile, Chinese and Japanese merchants rented houses on Hoi An's riverside to facilitate trade.

Later, the business decreased as the silt accumulated gradually in the river, making it difficult for larger ships to move. But not so that Hoi An lost its irresistible ancient beauty over time.

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17th-century Japanese merchants built a lacquer wooden temple, or Cau pagoda, with entrances protected by statues of monkeys and dogs.

Hundreds of wooden framed buildings and Chinese temples on narrow roads are now favored by historians and filmmakers, seeking to experience and rediscover the past.

In 1999, Hoi An was recognized as a World Heritage by UNESCO.