Hon Non Bo & Tieu Canh - http://members.tripod.com/lit_phan/
Hon means 'island' in Vietnamese; Non, 'mountain,' and Bo ,'an artful combination of water, mountain range and forest,' or 'copying the way the scenery (mountain, forest, ocean, animals, birds, structures, and people) looks in miniature.' Hon Non Bo is a mountain landscape reduced in scale, usually set in an area of the sea close to the shore, often with full, lush vegetation. The open sea is symbolized by the water in a shallow container; it is only necessary to have the surface of the water; not a deep ocean, but merely the waves on the top.
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