This morning I came upon a couple of lines in a traditional Nung song and was inspired to find out more about this ethnic group. Apparently, the Nung are Vietnam’s sixth largest ethnic minority group, with around 900,000 people. They live in the mountains of northeast Vietnam.
Here are the lines that caught my attention:
“With love, water in a sieve will not fall out.
Without love, even water in a pot will drain away.”