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The Truyền kỳ mạn lục (傳奇漫錄, "Casual Records of Transmitted Strange Tales") is a 16th-century Vietnamese historical text, in part a collection of legends, by Nguyễn Dữ (阮嶼) composed in Classical Chinese. [1] The collection was translated into French by UNESCO in 1962. [2] [3] Nguyễn Thế Nghi (阮世儀) translated ...
Chữ Nôm ( 𡨸喃, IPA: [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ nom˧˧]) [5] is a logographic writing system formerly used to write the Vietnamese language. It uses Chinese characters ( chữ Hán) to represent Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary and some native Vietnamese words, with other words represented by new characters created using a variety of methods, including phono-semantic compounds. [6] This composite script ...
The Six Provinces of Southern Vietnam ( Vietnamese: Nam Kỳ Lục tỉnh, 南圻六省 or just Lục tỉnh, 六省) is a historical name for the region of Southern Vietnam, which is referred to in French as Basse-Cochinchine ( Lower Cochinchina ). [1] The region was politically defined and established after the inauguration of the Nguyễn ...
Nguyễn Đình Chiểu was born in the southern province of Gia Định, the location of modern Saigon. He was of gentry parentage; his father was a native of Thừa Thiên–Huế, near Huế; but, during his service to the imperial government of Emperor Gia Long, he was posted south to serve under Lê Văn Duyệt, the governor of the south.
Nguyễn Trãi (阮廌), pen name Ức Trai (抑齋); (1380–1442) was an illustrious Vietnamese Confucian scholar, a noted poet, [1] a skilled politician and a master strategist. He was at times attributed with being capable of almost miraculous or mythical deeds in his designated capacity as a principal advisor of Lê Lợi, who fought ...
Early life and career Nguyễn Bá Tĩnh was born in 1330 in Nghĩa Phú, a village in Hải Dương. After being orphaned at the age of six, he was raised in a Buddhist temple, [1] where he was rechristened Tuệ Tĩnh, meaning "Tranquil Wisdom". [2] According to one nineteenth-century source, he was also known as Lê Đức Toản. [3] He studied both Buddhism and Taoism and also passed his ...
Hồ Quý Ly ( chữ Hán: 胡季犛, 1336 – 22 October 1407) ruled Đại Ngu (Vietnam) from 1400 to 1401 as the founding emperor of the short-lived Hồ dynasty. Quý Ly rose from a post as an official served the court of the ruling Trần dynasty and a military general fought against the Cham forces during the Cham–Vietnamese War (1367–1390). After his military defeat in the Ming ...
Buôn Ma Thuột (formerly Lạc Giao) or sometimes Buôn Mê Thuột or Ban Mê Thuột (listen ⓘ), is the capital city of Đắk Lắk Province in the Central Highlands of Vi