Vietnamese is the official language of Vietnam spoken by 90% of the Vietnamese people. According [...]
Do you prefer rice or noodles? Sometimes the question is legitimate, like when you are [...]
Although English has been widely spread throughout Vietnam, it still has some difficulties during your [...]
His firm reputation as a joker did this man a disservice when the new mandarin, [...]
From childhood a peasant couple worked for a rich landlord. They had no children. The [...]
In the reign of Le Thanh Tong there lived a very talented student at Bich [...]
Once upon a time a great mandarin had a daughter who was as beautiful as [...]
Tam Cam is one of the most Vietnamese Fairy Tales which have been told to [...]
Once upon a time there was a peasant couple who led a modest life in [...]
Once upon a time there lived a poor peasant and his wife at Go Sat, [...]
This story dates back to the time of the Ming dynasty. Chinese domination weighed heavily [...]
In Nam Xuong, present-day Ha Nam Ninh province, there lived a couple native to the [...]
There was once a village and in this village a house guarded by a dog. [...]
A miser sold all his possessions to buy a gold ingot which he buried at [...]
One day a dog stole a piece of meat in a cook-house on the river [...]
Formerly, on the communal register of the world of birds, the crow occupied the rank [...]
The Mayfly can see so little that he can never see at night. One day [...]
“Fresh fish for sale here” – said the fish-seller’s sign. ‘Why specify ‘fresh’, asked a [...]
A great mandarin, known for his “bowing and scraping” before his superiors and for his [...]
King Tran Thanh Tong (1240 -1290) Summer Evening By the long lingering light of day [...]
Proclamation of Victory Author: Strategist, Poet, Scholar Nguyen Trai (1380 -1442) In our retreat on Mount [...]
Mother, I Want A Husband! Scholar: Le Quy Don (1726 -1784) “Mother, I tell you, just [...]
The Blue Pavilion (Excerpt of Kieu’s Story, Nguyen Du) Poet: Nguyen Du Kieu’s family suffer [...]
Poet the Wife of the Sub Prefect of Thanh Quan Regrets for Old Thang Long [...]
Woman Poet: Ho Xuan Huong Three-Mountain Pass A gap, a pass and still another pass, [...]
Patriot Dang Dung Profession of Faith Trammeled in happenings of our time, already I am [...]
During the night of 4/5 July 1885 the Regent Ton That Thuyet made a surprise [...]
This Vè was composed after the fall of Hanoi (1882). It sings the praises of [...]
My first: two verticals My second: two horizontals My third: 12 soldiers information My whole [...]
Excerpt Scholar: Dang Tran Con (1710-1745) Woman Poet: Doan Thi Diem (1705-1748) Lament Of A [...]
Vietnamese literary tradition has evolved through multiple events that have marked the country’s history. New [...]
Since coming into existence, Vietnamese literature has been rich in folklore and proverbs; tales that [...]
Among the 54 Vietnamese ethnic groups some have had their own scripts for a long [...]
The above lines were penned by the Hanoi poet Xuan Dieu, written for one person, [...]
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