The pinpeat orchestra or musical ensemble performs the ceremonial music of the royal courts and temples of Cambodia. It accompanies court dances, masked plays, shadow plays, and religious ceremonies.

Because stories have been handed down through time, they are examples of the heart and soul of the people who created them. They are treasured reminders of how life used to be, and how they show non-members of that culture some of the thinking strategies and beliefs that have made different groups what they are today.

It is said that to visit Thailand means to experience a visual feast of harmonized colour, pattern and form. It stems from a struggle towards promoting refinement rooted in ancient Siamese culture. In doing so, it avoids coarseness as the main emphasis of daily life of all Thai people. It is topmost is their own scale of values.

Culture during the prehistoric Bronze Age in Vietnam centered at the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam. At this time the first Vietnamese kingdoms appeared and their influence flourished to other parts of Southeast Asia, including the Indo-Malayan Archipelago from about 1000 BC to 1 BC. By 938 AD, a Vie.