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Nguyễn Nhật Ánh (born May 7, 1955 [1] [2]) is a Vietnamese author who writes for teenagers and adults.He also works as a teacher, poet and correspondent. His works include approximately 30 novels, 4 essays, 2 series and some collections of poems.
Tam thiên tự (chữ Hán: 三千字; literally 'three thousand characters') is a Vietnamese text that was used in the past to teach young children Chinese characters and chữ Nôm.
The musician Phạm Duy adapted The Tale of Kiều into an epic song cycle entitled Minh họa Kiều ("Illustrating Kieu") in 1997. The Tale of Kieu was the inspiration for the 2007 movie Saigon Eclipse , which moved the storyline into a modern Vietnamese setting with a modern-day immigrant Kiều working in the massage parlor industry in San ...
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 ...
The Story of Thạch Sanh (Chữ Nôm: 石生新傳, Thạch Sanh tân truyện) is a late eighteenth-century Vietnamese classical novel written in vernacular chữ Nôm script and lục bát ("6-8") verse. The author is unknown. [1] Popular elements in the story are also taken from Vietnamese mythology.
Nguyệt Anh was born on 8 March 1864 in the village of An Binh Dong within the Ben Tre province. She was educated by her father, Nguyễn Đình Chiểu, who was a poet and teacher. She lost her father at an age of 24. Later, she and her brother took over their father's school and started running it.
As one of the primary waterways between Ho Chi Minh City and the Pacific Ocean, the Long Tau River has played a prominent economic and military role in the region. [7] [6] [8] Its strategic location has made it the host of prominent warships and military operations and many times a strategic target for both attack and defense.