With this book, the author has devoted a lot of enthusiasm to building a panoramic picture of Vietnam's marine culture, focusing on the formation and development of Vietnam's marine culture through historical periods. But the book is not merely a work of research on the historical aspect, the author has meticulously studied, analyzed and synthesized a large amount of ethnographic, archaeology, geography and other social and humanities documents. Thereby, the author has vividly and truthfully reproduced the diverse and rich picture of the cultural life, beliefs and customs of the Vietnamese people associated with the sea.