摘要
Floods have been popularly understood as the nightmares of human beings for their devastation causes. Floods in traditional Vietnamese minds are of the same type since ancient Vietnamese used a metaphor to address the floods in Red River Delta （Hanoi area） as un-auspicious marine spirit Thuy Tinh being defeated by the inland spirit Son Tinh in the legendary battle of life. Therefore, as being expressed in many cultures, floods are symbol of death and loss, and human beings have always attempted to get rich of or overcome the floods. However, the floods, under the awareness and pragmatic life of the people of An Giang Province as well as the whole Mekong River Delta （in Southern Vietnam）, the floods are considered as the sign of wealth and happiness. What makes the floods to be so auspiciously acknowledged, and how do people manage to ~exploit＂ the floods to enrich their life？ This paper is to investigate and generalize the approaches of utilizing the floods＇ resources to diversify their life, especially in cuisine culture. The research learns that the regularly stable floods in the Mekong River system strongly and positively affects the life of the local residents, and the community is further wise to exploit and transform the natural resources into their cultural world, mentally and materially, among which, ecotourism is a potentially prospective field
