Time Astra
VI

Culture

Nguyễn Thuyên's address to the crocodile and the rise of Nôm verse

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When a crocodile appeared in the Red River, Trần Nhân Tông had the justice minister Nguyễn Thuyên, skilled in vernacular verse, write an address and throw it into the river; the beast left and he was renamed Hàn Thuyên, a landmark in the spread of Nôm writing.

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