Water is everywhere in Vietnam. Nothing is surprising to find it in the songs, in the folk dances or in the performing arts. It has a primordial role in the water puppets show. Before being a popular entertainment, this show is something of a ritual invocation of good harvests, indispensable facing to the natural disasters which Vietnamese farmers have often in their daily lives.

Created in Vietnam in the tenth century, the spectacle of water puppets is over century after century, a performong art where one finds not only mythical characters but also Vietnamese peasantsliving in their daily lives behind bamboo fences.

Once the red curtain raised, appeared tiny articulated wooden puppets sleeping underneath the water. The dragon spit fires, the tortoises are risen abruptly in front of travellers etc... The end of the spectacle is followed by the appearance of tha artists having all together The watyerlong rubbers thigh boots and remaining immersed with stoicism until the waist during all the spectacle.

The water puppets are the form of the oldest and most specific expression in Vietnam. They belong to the spiritual inheritance of humanity. One finds here the heart of the Vietnamese people. It is a spectacle not to be missed if there is the occasion to visit Hanoi.