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leaves long                      north                    artists                  printed

                     decoration                                layer                                       talk

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          leaves                     long                      north                    artists                  printed

                     decoration                                layer                                       talk

      Dong Ho Painting is a kind of Vietnamese (1) _____________ painting originating in Dong Ho Village, BacNinh Province. Dong Ho paintings have about 300 years of history in the (2) _____________ of Vietnam.

      Dong Ho pictures are (3) _____________ on a special kind of Dzo paper. Theprinting paper is made of bark of a tree called“Dzo”. Colours of the painting are refined from various kinds of tree (4) _____________, which people can easily find in Vietnam. Traditional (5) _____________ 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) _____________ of sticky rice paste to protect the painting and their colours. They are so (7) _____________ 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) _____________ during Tet.