THE CUSTOM OF HANGING HORIZONTAL PANELS AND PARALLEL SENTENCES IN VIETNAMESE CULTURE

Our ancestors passed down a saying: "Nhất chữ, nhì tranh, tam sành, tứ gỗ" (First characters, second painting, third porcelain, fourth wood). According to this saying, aesthetic words have been highly valued, to the point of reverence, along with the long-standing Confucian tradition of our nation. The custom of displaying “Hoành Phi” (horizontal panels) and “Câu Đối” (parallel sentences) has also been well developed over the years.