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The first girl on the left is playing the flute in the painting Tố nữ. The sáo contains the musical spirit of Vietnamese countryside and its four peaceful seasons. In Vietnam, the people played sáo when resting on the fields or before going to sleep at night.
Ocean Vuong (born Vương Quốc Vinh, Vietnamese: [vɨəŋ˧ kuək˧˥ viɲ˧]; born 14 October 1988) is a Vietnamese American poet, essayist, and novelist. He is the recipient of the 2014 Ruth Lilly /Sargent Rosenberg Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation , [ 2 ] 2016 Whiting Award , [ 3 ] and the 2017 T. S. Eliot Prize . [ 4 ]
In his review for Time, Vietnamese-American novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen wrote, "Vuong refuses to be embarrassed. He transforms the emotional, the visceral, the individual into the political in an unforgettable–indeed, gorgeous–novel, a book that seeks to affect its readers as profoundly as Little Dog is affected". [ 20 ]
Vương or Vuong (Chữ Nôm: 王) is a Vietnamese surname, meaning King. In the United States, Vuong was the 7,635th most common surname during the 1990 census and the 4,556th most common during the 2000 census .
In Việt Điện U Linh Tập, Thánh Gióng is known as Sóc Thiên Vương (chữ Hán: 朔天王). This version does not specify when the story was set nor who was the enemy. It says in the old days, there was an enemy in the country, the king ordered his emissaries to find someone who can defeat the enemy.
Current and past writing systems for Vietnamese in the Vietnamese alphabet and in chữ Hán Nôm. Spoken and written Vietnamese today uses the Latin script-based Vietnamese alphabet to represent native Vietnamese words (thuần Việt), Vietnamese words which are of Chinese origin (Hán-Việt, or Sino-Vietnamese), and other foreign loanwords.
King Ming then sent Vuong Thong and Ma Anh to bring reinforcements. Combining with the troops in Dong Quan, troop count was a hundred thousand (100,000), divided into Phuong Chinh and Ma Ky. Le Trien and Do Bi defeated Ma Ky in Tu Liem and then defeated Chinh's wing as well. Both generals lost and retreated to Co So, joining up with Vuong Thong.
Ngô Quyền (chữ Hán: 吳權) (April 17, 898 – February 14, 944), often referred to as Tiền Ngô Vương (前吳王; "First King of Ngô"), was a warlord who later became the founding king of the Ngô dynasty of Vietnam.