Âu Cơ
Âu Cơ is the fairy of the dry land in the Story of the Hồng Bàng Clan, the opening tale of the Lĩnh Nam Chích Quái. Daughter of the northern...
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Âu Cơ is the fairy of the dry land in the Story of the Hồng Bàng Clan, the opening tale of the Lĩnh Nam Chích Quái. Daughter of the northern...
Chử Đồng Tử là chàng trai nghèo làng Chử Xá, nghèo đến mức nhường chiếc khố duy nhất liệm cha, lại lấy được công chúa Tiên Dung trong một cu...
Trưng Trắc and Trưng Nhị were two sisters of the Lạc Việt, daughters of the Lạc lord of Mê Linh district, who led the uprising against Easte...
Lạc Long Quân, given name Sùng Lãm, is the dragon lord of the Story of the Hồng Bàng Clan, the opening tale of the Lĩnh Nam Chích Quái: son ...
Mai An Tiêm is a legendary figure from the Hùng Vương era, protagonist of the Tây Qua truyện (Tale of the Western Melon) in the Lĩnh Nam Chí...
Chưng Bính Truyện (蒸餅傳, "The Tale of the Steamed Cake") is the eighth tale in juan I of Lĩnh Nam Chích Quái. It explains the origin of bánh ...
Tây Qua truyện (Tale of the Western Melon) is story no. 8/9 in the Lĩnh Nam Chích Quái, recounting how Mai An Tiêm, a foreign-born slave at ...
Tân Lang truyện (檳榔傳), commonly the Legend of Betel and Areca, is story no. 5 in the 22-tale canon of the Lĩnh Nam Chích Quái, explaining th...
Thánh Gióng, also titled Phù Đổng Thiên Vương, is the second of Vietnam's Four Immortals: the child of Phù Đổng village who did not speak fo...
Thần Kim Quy (金龜, the Golden Turtle) is a turtle deity who appears in two Vietnamese legend cycles separated by centuries. In the An Dương V...
Hồ Tinh truyện (狐精傳), the third story in fascicle I of the Lĩnh Nam Chích Quái, tells of a white nine-tailed fox, over a thousand years old,...
Lang Liêu is the eighteenth son of the sixth Hùng king in the Chưng Bính Truyện of Lĩnh Nam Chích Quái: the one prince among twenty-two with...
Lý Ông Trọng, given in the tales as Lý Thân, a native of Thụy Hương village (Chèm, on the Red River just north of Hà Nội), is the great gian...
Man Nương (蠻娘) is tale 14 in Lĩnh Nam chích quái and the origin story of the Buddha Mother of the Dâu region, the old land of Luy Lâu (Thuận...
Nhất Dạ Trạch, the Overnight Lake, exists in both myth and history. In myth, it is where the palace of Chử Đồng Tử and Tiên Dung appeared, t...
Tiên Dung was a Hùng Vương princess famous for refusing every match her father arranged. On a pleasure trip down the Red River, she accident...
Bạch Trĩ truyện (The Tale of the White Pheasant) is story no. 10 in the Lĩnh Nam Chích Quái. In fewer than 200 characters of classical Chine...
Ngư Tinh truyện (魚精傳) is tale 2 of book I of the Lĩnh Nam Chích Quái, standing immediately after the Hồng Bàng clan tale and opening the dem...
Mộc Tinh truyện (木精傳) tells of a millennial chiên đàn tree in the land of Phong Châu, over a thousand arm-spans tall, its canopy covering th...
Nam Chiếu truyện (南詔傳) is a tale in book 2 of the Lĩnh Nam chích quái, part of the 22-tale recension edited by Vũ Quỳnh and Kiều Phú in 1492...
Việt Tỉnh Truyện (The Well of Viet) is a tale in scroll 2 of the Lĩnh Nam Chích Quái, adapted from the Tang-era chuanqi tale "Cui Wei" (崔煒),...