Dong Ho Painting is a kind of Vietnamese (1) ______folk_______ painting originating in Dong Ho Village, Bac Ninh Province. Dong Ho paintings have about 300 years of history in the (2) ______north_______ of Vietnam. Dong Ho pictures are (3) ______printed_______ on a special kind of Dzo paper. The printing paper is made of bark of a tree called “Dzo”. Colours of the painting are refined from various kinds of tree (4) ______leaves_______, which people can easily find in Vietnam. Traditional (5) ______artists_______ use all-natural colours for their pictures: burnt bamboo leaves for black, cajuput leaves for green, copper rust for blue, etc. The painting is covered by a (6) ______layer_______ of sticky rice paste to protect the painting and their colours. They are so (7) ______long_______ lasting, so that it is very difficult to make them dimmer even time or daylight. Vietnamese people used to buy Dong Ho pictures for (8) _____decoration________ during Tet.

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1 folk    

2 north : miền Bắc (làng tranh đông hồ ở miền bắc)

3.printed: in (cấu trúc câu bị động)

4.leaves: lá (lá cây là nguyên liệu thường dùng để làm màu trong tranh đông hồ)

5.artists: họa sĩ

6.layer: lớp (ở đây nghĩa là các lớp của tranh) (tranh đông hồ có nhiều lớp)

7.long: dài (cụm từ long - lasting)

8.decoration: sự trang trí ( trang trí nhà cửa đó)