People usually label stones as soulless, but Nguyen Viet Cong Thanh (30 years old, of A Luoi district), instead, carved his passionate soul, his love for art and for his homeland on cobblestone. Thanh has turned cobblestone into a creative material, as well as a source of income.

Amid the modern society, young people sometimes get caught up in the streets filled with car horns, constant year-long deadlines, or skyscrapers, and modern electronic devices... At that times, many young people choose to nestle in ancient spaces to relieve themselves, throwing back to their ancestors’ old days, which were difficult but peaceful and slow.

Not many people have noticed a special thing in this winter in Hue: For the first time ever, in the rainfall updates of the Provincial Commanding Committee for Disaster Prevention and Search & Rescue appears a very strange place, which is Quan Tuong Dai (the Imperial Observatory) in Hue Imperial City. The three words “Quan Tuong Dai” being read out on a rainy day sounds melancholy as if old friends saw each other once again after such a long time.

Thanks to the cultural transmission from older generations, young people now begin to recognize and preserve the traditional culture.