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Sơn Tinh – Thủy Tinh (the Mountain God vs. Lord of the Waters) is a Vietnamese myth. This myth explains the practice of tidal irrigation and devastating floods in Vietnam as a result of monsoon—a seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and Southeast Asia, blowing from the southwest between May and September and bringing rain (the wet monsoon), or from the northeast between ...
Pair of Cáo chín đuôi statues on the entrance to Lữ Gia temple, Gôi town, Vụ Bản, Nam Định. In the book Lĩnh Nam chích quái, the Hồ ly tinh (or Hồ tinh) is also mentioned with the image of an animal that causes harm to good people, then killed by Lạc Long Quân to eliminate harm to the people.
Lạc Long Quân ("Dragon King of Lạc", also known as Sùng Lãm) is an ancient king of the Hồng Bàng dynasty of ancient Vietnam.Quân was the son of Kinh Dương Vương, the king of Xích Quỷ.
According to Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, a book written in a Confucian perspective, Kinh Dương Vương originates from China: Emperor Ming, the great-great-grandson of the mythological Chinese ruler Shennong, went on a tour of inspection south of the Nanling Mountains, settled down and married a certain Beautiful Immortal Lady (鶩僊女 Vụ Tiên Nữ), who then gave birth to an ...
Người tình không chân dung: 1971: after 1955: South Vietnam (Vietnam) The Abandoned Field: Free Fire Zone: 1979: after 1955: An "unnerving and compelling .. subjective-camera-eye-view" of life under helicopter fire in the Mekong Delta. [1] Coordinates of Death: 1985: 1960s—1970s: North Vietnam (Vietnam) Stranded Soviet sailors witness ...
The legend from Lĩnh Nam chích quái was novelized as Quả Dưa Đỏ (lit. ' The Red Melon ') by Nguyễn Trọng Thuật and published Nam Phong Magazine in 1925, which was one of the first modern Vietnamese novels. [5] The novel was also inspired by Robinson Crusoe. [6] In 2011, Tô Hoài wrote the novel Đảo Hoang (lit.
"Jackie followed Artemis’ advice," she shared. "Onassis and Maria were twin (flames). They couldn’t separate from each other." According to Biography.com, Callas and Onassis met at a party in ...
This version is the most well-known version today. It is similar to Lĩnh Nam chích quái's version. However, in this version Phù Đổng Thiên Vương has a name, Gióng. Instead of a rich man, his parent was an old woman who lived alone and became pregnant after stepping on to a giant footprint that trampled her field.