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Trịnh Công Sơn (February 28, 1939 – April 1, 2001) was a Vietnamese musician, songwriter, painter and poet. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He is widely considered to be Vietnam's best songwriter. His music explores themes of love, loss, and anti-war sentiments during the Vietnam War , for which he was censored by both the southern Republic of Vietnam and ...
Restoration – Conflict between the Trịnh and Nguyễn lords During this time, emperors of the Lê dynasty only ruled in name, it was the Trịnh Lords in Northern Vietnam and Nguyễn lords in Southern Vietnam who held the real power.
Emperor Quang Trung (Vietnamese: [kwāːŋ ʈūŋm]; chữ Hán: 光中, 1753 – 16 September 1792) or Nguyễn Huệ (chữ Hán: 阮惠), also known as Nguyễn Quang Bình (chữ Hán: 阮光平), or Hồ Thơm (chữ Hán: 胡𦹳) was the second emperor of the Tây Sơn dynasty, reigning from 1788 until 1792. [2]
The Trịnh army continued to march south and the Tây Sơn army continued its conquest of other southern cities. The forces arrayed against the Nguyễn were simply too many and in 1776 the Tây Sơn army captured the last Nguyễn stronghold of Gia Định and massacred the town's Chinese population. [7]
Trịnh is a Vietnamese family name. It exists in equivalent forms in other languages of the Sinosphere such as (鄭,Zheng, Cheng) in Chinese and Korean (Jeong, Chung). [1] Families that bear the surname Trịnh are exclusively Vietnamese. [citation needed] The surname further proliferated following the reign of the Trịnh lords in Tonkin ...
Some extremely famous people are sometimes referred to by their family names regardless of whether the name is an alias, such as Hồ Chí Minh (Bác Hồ—"Uncle Hồ ") (although his real name is Nguyễn Sinh Cung), Trịnh Công Sơn (nhạc Trịnh—"Trịnh music "), and Hồ Xuân Hương (nữ sĩ họ Hồ—"the poetess with the ...
The Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư (chữ Hán: 大越史記全書; Vietnamese: [ɗâːjˀ vìət ʂɨ᷉ kǐ twâːn tʰɨ]; Complete Annals of Đại Việt) is the official national chronicle of the Đại Việt, that was originally compiled by the royal historian Ngô Sĩ Liên under the order of the Emperor Lê Thánh Tông and was finished in 1479 during the Lê period.
Later, he asks his sister, Nguyễn Thị Ngọc Bảo (the wife of Trịnh Kiểm) to ask Kiểm to appoint him to be the governor of far-south frontier of Đại Việt, Thuận Hóa (modern Quảng Bình to Quảng Nam provinces). Trịnh Kiểm, thinking of this proposal as an opportunity to remove the power and influence of Nguyễn Hoàng ...