Quang Trung ordered Chinese books translated into chữ Nôm and had proclamations and edicts written in Vietnamese in Nôm characters instead of classical Chinese.
Culture
Quang Trung makes chữ Nôm the written language of state
- 1792
- Southeast Asia
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