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Nguyễn Du (阮 攸; 3 January 1766 – 16 September 1820), courtesy name Tố Như (素 如) and art name Thanh Hiên (清 軒), is a celebrated Vietnamese poet and musician. He is most known for writing the epic poem The Tale of Kiều .
While the Trịnh and the Nguyễn were fighting against each other, the Tây Sơn rebels overthrew both the Nguyễn and then the Trịnh over the span of a decade. Nguyễn Du was loyal to the Lê Dynasty and hoped for the return of the Lê emperor. In 1802 the Nguyễn lord Nguyễn Ánh conquered all of Vietnam forming the new Nguyễn dynasty.
Poets (Nguyễn Trãi, Nguyễn Du, Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, Nguyễn Khoa Điềm). Catholic clergymen (Nguyễn Văn Thuận) Writers (Viet Thanh Nguyen) Scientists (Nam-Trung Nguyen) Composers, actors (Dustin Nguyen) Models (Nguyễn Thúc Thùy Tiên) Professional poker players (Scotty Nguyen) Professional American football player
Nguyễn is the most common Vietnamese surname, held by an estimated 40 percent of Vietnamese people. Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics, as Nguyen . The following is an incomplete list of individuals with this surname.
Nguyễn Tấn Dũng (a former prime minister) has Nguyễn is his family name, Tấn is his middle name, and Dũng is his personal name. In Vietnamese formal usage, he is referred to as Nguyễn Tấn Dũng, but by his personal name ("Mr. Dũng") in English-language text of Vietnamese multimedia, not by his family name ("Mr. Nguyễn").
One of the best-known pieces of Vietnamese literature, The Tale of Kiều, was written in chữ Nôm by Nguyễn Du. The Vietnamese alphabet created by Portuguese Jesuit missionaries, with the earliest known usage occurring in the 17th century, replaced chữ Nôm as the preferred way to record Vietnamese literature from the 1920s. While ...
The Nguyễn dynasty (Vietnamese: Nhà Nguyễn or Triều Nguyễn, chữ Nôm: 茹阮, chữ Hán: 阮朝) was the last Vietnamese dynasty, ruling unified Vietnam independently from 1802 to 1883 before becoming a French protectorate under French Indochina. The Nguyễn emperors were members of the House of Nguyễn Phúc.
His first works of literary analysis, released in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, explored the cultural significance of classic Vietnamese poets like Nguyễn Du and Hồ Xuân Hương, the latter of whom was given the sobriquet "the Queen of Nôm poetry" [19] that is still invoked by other writers generations later.