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The Six Provinces of Southern Vietnam ( Vietnamese: Nam Kỳ Lục tỉnh, 南圻六省 or just Lục tỉnh, 六省) is a historical name for the region of Southern Vietnam, which is referred to in French as Basse-Cochinchine ( Lower Cochinchina ). [1] The region was politically defined and established after the inauguration of the Nguyễn ...
Hoa tiên. Story of the flower-letter ( Vietnamese: Hoa tiên truyện, chữ Hán: 花箋傳) is a famous vernacular Vietnamese poem written in chữ Nôm. It was written by Nguyễn Huy Tự (1743-1790) and revised by Nguyễn Thiện (1763-1818). [1] [2] The poem was originally inspired by the late 17th century Chinese poem, Faazin Gei ...
Chữ Hán (𡨸漢, literally 'Han characters', Vietnamese pronunciation: [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ haːn˧˦]) is the term for Chinese characters in Vietnamese. Chữ Hán are used to write Literary Chinese (Hán văn; 漢文) and Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary in the Vietnamese language.
Khải Định ( Vietnamese: [xa᷉ːj ɗîŋ̟ˀ]; chữ Hán: 啓定; born Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Đảo; 8 October 1885 – 6 November 1925) was the 12th emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty in Vietnam, reigning from 1916 to 1925. His name at birth was Prince Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Đảo. He was the son of Emperor Đồng Khánh, but he did not ...
The legend of Mai An Tiêm was the ninth tale told in Lĩnh Nam chích quái, [1] a semi-fictional collection written in the fourteenth century, under the title Tây Qua Truyện ( chữ Hán: 西瓜傳; literally 'The Tale of the Western Fruit'). Mai Tiêm was an official in the Hùng King 's era. He was originally a foreign slave bought from ...
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 ...
Đinh Bộ Lĩnh (924–979; r. 968–979 ), real name allegedly Đinh Hoàn ( 丁 桓 ), [1] was the founding emperor of the short-lived Đinh dynasty of Vietnam, after declaring its independence from the Chinese Southern Han dynasty. He was a significant figure in the establishment of Vietnamese independence and political unity in the 10th ...
Hà Tĩnh ( Vietnamese: [haː˨˩ tïŋ˦ˀ˥] ⓘ) is a northern coastal province in the North Central Coast region, the Central of Vietnam. It borders Nghệ An to the north, Quảng Bình to the south, Bolikhamsai and Khammouane of Laos to the west and the East Sea ( Gulf of Tonkin) to the east. Hà Tĩnh together with neighbouring Nghệ An ...