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The mythology of the ethnic Vietnamese people (the Việt,) has been transferred through oral traditions and in writing. The story of Lạc Long Quân and Âu Cơ has been cited as the common creation myth of the Vietnamese people. The story details how two progenitors, the man known as the Lạc Long Quân and the woman known as the Âu Cơ ...
Many place-names in Vietnam incorporate the word Long, or Rồng ("dragon" in Vietnamese): Hạ Long Bay (vịnh Hạ Long, lit. "Bay of Descending Dragon"), the section of the Mekong river flowing through Vietnam contains 9 branches and is called Cửu Long ("nine dragons"); Hàm Rồng Bridge (lit."Bridge of Dragon Jaw"), Long Biên Bridge ...
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]
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.
Vietnamese folklorist Nguyễn Đổng Chi in his Kho tàng truyện cổ tích Việt Nam (lit. ' Vietnam's collection of folktales ') included various Vietnamese and Hmong variants of the story under the title of "A man dies for wealth, a bird dies for food" (人為財死，鳥為食亡), which is a proverb based on a similar Chinese folktale ...
This is a timeline of Vietnamese history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Vietnam and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Vietnam. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. Prehistory ...
Tấm Cám ("The Two Sisters") - a dark Cinderella story; Từ Thức Gặp Tiên ("Từ Thức and the Goddess") - A mandarin meets a girl at a Buddhist temple who is really a goddess. "The Student and the Painting" - a girl in a painting [5] [6] Ba Giai and Tú Xuất are a comical duo in South folk tales
The story is included in anthologies of Vietnamese stories. [1] The story is about a laborer who is exploited by a wealthy landowner. In order to keep and motivate the laborer, the landowner promises to reward him with marriage to his daughter after three years of labor.