Từ khoá : Five Basic Elements conception.

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THE CONCEPTIONS OF “YIN-YANG” AND “FIVE BASIC ELEMENTS” IN ĐỜN CA TÀI TỬ

THE CONCEPTIONS OF “YIN-YANG” AND “FIVE BASIC ELEMENTS” IN ĐỜN CA TÀI TỬ

Đờn ca tài tử or Amateur’s music, a kind of traditional chamber music of South Vietnam, is well-known throughout this country and is present in the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Based on the local people’s outlooks on human life, especially the concepts of “Yin-Yang” and “Five Basic Elements”, this kind of music has “a scholarly content in a folk form”, which deserves to be praised as “marvelous mode of musical performance” in the treasure of Vietnamese traditional music.