Harmony

Stories with the Harmony theme:

• The Story of the Banyan Tree Spirit Jul 12, 2025

  

  In the heart of the Red River Delta, where fertile rice paddies stretch toward distant mountains and water buffalo wade through peaceful streams, stood the village of Dong Xuan. It was a prosperous community known throughout the region for its harmony, wisdom, and the unusual longevity of its residents.

  At the center of the village grew an enormous banyan tree, so ancient that no one could remember when it had first taken root. Its massive trunk required twenty people holding hands to encircle it, and its branches spread so wide they provided shade for the entire village square. The aerial roots that dropped from its branches had grown thick as smaller trees themselves, creating natural pillars that formed a living temple around the great trunk.

• The Tale of the Phoenix and the Dragon Jul 3, 2025

  

  In the beginning of time, when the world was young and the boundaries between heaven and earth were not yet firmly established, there lived two of the most magnificent beings ever created—Phung Hoang, the Phoenix of the Southern Skies, and Long Vuong, the Dragon of the Eastern Seas.

  Phung Hoang was a creature of incomparable beauty, with feathers that shimmered like liquid fire and a voice that could make flowers bloom out of season. She ruled over all the birds of heaven, commanded the warm winds that brought spring, and carried the power of the sun itself in her blazing plumage. When she flew across the sky, her passage brought renewal and rebirth to everything below.