| On the third last day we found the poetry factory. At the Temple of Literature they made laws, letters and literature for over 900 years. Nature was a major theme. It could be used to say almost anything about human emotions. That is no longer the case. Tourists can still read the accolades to scholars 500 years dead. They are engraved into the backs of stone tortoises. We can also listen to delicate ladies performing classical Viet music. Then it's off the the Army Museum (where touching photos of War Mothers serve like slaves for poetry). |