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As Literary Chinese was the formal written language for government documents, a majority of literary works were composed in Hán văn or as văn ngôn. [1] From the 10th century, a minority of literary works were composed in chữ Nôm , the former writing system for the Vietnamese language .
Nam Cao was born on October 29, 1915, to a poor farming family in Lý Nhân District, Hà Nam Province with saint's name Giuse (Joseph). [1] He was the only child in the Christian family who received a full education. After finishing high school, he headed to [Saigon] working as a clerk in a tailor’s; his first works were written during this ...
In 1962 during the Vietnam War, Trần Lệ Xuân (aka Madame Nhu), sister-in-law of South Vietnamese president Ngô Đình Diệm had a costly statue erected in the capital of Saigon in memory of the Trưng sisters, with the facial features modeled on herself, and also established the Women's Solidarity Movement, a female paramilitary ...
Phan Thị Vàng Anh (another pen name Thảo Hảo; born 18 August 1968) is a Vietnamese poet and short-story writer. She was one of the Vietnamese writers that emerged from post- Vietnam War literature.
He then commanded the entire corps to march along nearly 1000 km to engage in the Ho Chi Minh Campaign after having destroyed the ARVN defensive line in Phan Rang. In the last decisive fight to capture Saigon , 2nd Corps was one of five wings to surround Saigon, and planted the National Liberation Front 's flag onto top of the Independence ...
"Tiến Quân Ca" (lit. "The Song of the Marching Troops") is the national anthem of Vietnam.The march was written and composed by Văn Cao in 1944, and was adopted as the national anthem of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1946 (as per the 1946 constitution) and subsequently the Socialist Republic of Vietnam in 1976 following the reunification of Vietnam.
The form Việt Nam is first recorded in the 16th-century oracular poem Sấm Trạng Trình. The name has also been found on 12 steles carved in the 16th and 17th centuries, including one at Bao Lam Pagoda in Hải Phòng that dates to 1558. [24] In 1802, Nguyễn Phúc Ánh (who later became Emperor Gia Long) established the Nguyễn dynasty.
Map from the Đại Nam nhất thống chí. The Đại Nam nhất thống chí (chữ Hán: 大南一統志, 1882) is the official geographical record of Vietnam's Nguyễn dynasty written in chữ Hán compiled in the late nineteenth century. [1] It also contains historical records of military campaigns. [2] [3]