Issue of stamp set Vietnamese Fairy Tales: Hundred-joint bamboo

The stamp set aims to contribute to spreading profound human values ​​and meaningful lessons from famous Vietnamese fairy tales.

The stamp set includes 4 stamp templates measuring 32 x 43 (mm) and 1 stamp block measuring 90 x 70 (mm), designed by artist Le Khanh Vuong (Vietnam Post Corporation). The main content on the stamps are illustrations of fairy tales.Hundred-joint bamboo, designed in a folk layout.

The scenery on the stamps shows representative elements of pure Vietnamese culture with ancient houses, straw trees, bamboo forests, etc.

The characters in the stamp set are depicted in general and conventional terms, in everyday clothes and traditional Vietnamese clothing, turbans, etc. The details are designed by the artist to be concise, refined, and highly expressive, helping viewers grasp the main details in the story.

Hundred-joint bamboois one of the most famous and popular fairy tales in Vietnam, with the main content promoting diligence, honesty, and the fight for justice.

The entire content of the story is summarized in 4 pictures which are the 4 main details of the story.

Once upon a time, there was a poor, kind and hard-working boy who worked for a rich man with the promise that he would marry his daughter after 3 years.

When the time came, the rich man did not keep his promise and asked him to find a new bamboo tree with a hundred joints for the wedding ceremony.

The young man went into the forest to look for a bamboo tree with a hundred joints, but could not find it, so he sat down and cried. Buddha appeared and told him to find and cut down a hundred bamboo joints, and gave him the magic words "Khắc nhập, Khắc nhập" to join the 100 bamboo joints; "Khắc xuất, Khắc xuất" to separate the bamboo joints.

Returning to the village, he saw the rich man organizing a wedding for his daughter with another man. The young man showed the rich man the hundred-jointed bamboo tree.

At the same time, he recited a spell that caused the rich man to be sucked into the bamboo tree. Only when the rich man agreed to keep his promise did he recite a spell to release the rich man. Finally, the poor boy and the rich man's daughter lived happily ever after.

According to this content, the stamp includes the following images: A farmer meets a Buddha and is taught about bamboo and the slogan; A farmer carries bamboo segments back to the village; A rich man gets stuck in a bamboo tree; The wedding of a farmer and the rich man's daughter.

The stamp set is available on the postal network from June 1, 2024 to December 31, 2025.

Previously, the Ministry of Information and Communications issued many stamp sets on the theme of Vietnamese folk tales, fairy tales, and legends, including some typical stamp sets such as:

The Legend of Lac Long Quan - Au Co stamp set issued in 2000; The Legend of Mai An Tiem stamp set (The Legend of Watermelon) issued in 2021; The Vietnamese Fairy Tale stamp set: The Starfruit Tree issued in 2022.