As time passes by, shops selling oriental medicine on Lan Ong street in Hanoi are busy, unlike other traditional trades on many other streets in the city’s Old Quarter which have died out over the years.

Traditional professions were a unique cultural feature of ancient Hanoi. In order to preserve this feature, the Management Board of Hoan Kiem Lake and Hanoi’s Old Quarter have held a series of cultural activities with the theme “Preserving ancient professions on the streets”, focusing on introducing Vietnamese traditional medicine on Lan Ong Street.