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English translation of the title: Preparing a Coffin for Mother
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In Vietnamese customs, preparing a coffin when the parents were still alive was a duty and honour. It meant that the children would take care of the parents' death and death ceremony, and the children have the resources to do so."Dưỡng Sanh" literally means "continually live", and these words would be put on the side of the coffin as a reassurance that everything would be taken care of.
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- 1991-1992 Incentive prize Lang Van Cultural and Artistic Prize
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