Category: History
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Battle of Bach Dang, year 938, King Ngo Quyen
W.Minh Tuan According to legend, Vietnamese history began in 2879 BC, from the reign of the first Hung King, King Kinh Duong Vuong Loc Tuc. This is the first Hung Vuong King.
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Book Thinking about Vietnam, Chapter 5, Part C-Humanity during the Le Dynasty
W.Minh Tuan Background. At the end of the Tran Dynasty, in the 14th Century, the situation of our country and the Vietnamese Court was similar to that at the end of the Ly Dynasty: the country was in chaos, rebellious enemies emerged like bees, the King and officials were weak and did not care about…
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Book Thinking about Vietnam, Chapter 5- B-Humanity during the Tran Dynasty
W.Minh Tuan 1000 years of Northern domination has left extremely harmful effects on Vietnamese culture and character. And the worst is the struggle for the throne.
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Book Thinking about Vietnam, Chapter 5: A-Humanity of the kings of the Ly Dynasty
W.Minh Tuan Our Vietnamese people, like other peoples in the world, are not a perfect people. We also have good sides and bad sides. However, if an ordinary person has a good, benevolent job, that person’s influence on society is only in a narrow range and for a short time.
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Book Thinking about Vietnam, Chapter 4-The period of 1000 years of Northern domination
W.Minh Tuan King An Duong Vuong replaced the 18th King Hung Vuong in 258 BC. There are 2 theories here. One theory is that King An Duong Vuong of Au Viet invaded, overthrew the 18th Hung King of Lac Viet, merged the two countries of Au Viet, and Lac Viet to become Au Lac country.
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Book Thinking about Vietnam, Chapter 3, Legend 8: Son Tinh-Thuy Tinh
W.Minh Tuan The Son Tinh-Thuy Tinh legend says that during the reign of the 18th Hung King (around 300 BC), the 18th Hung King had a daughter named My Nuong, whom King Hung wanted to marry to someone good person.
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Book Thinking about Vietnam, Chapter 3, Legend 9: The love story of My Chau – Trong Thuy
W.Minh Tuan The legend of My Chau – Trong Thuy is as follows: Trieu Da was a general of the Qin Dynasty. After the death of Qin Shi Huang, he rebelled against the Qin Dynasty and proclaimed himself as Vu Vuong of Nam Viet in the southern region of China, bordering Au Lac.
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Book Thinking about Vietnam, Chapter 3, Legend 7, Truong Chi-My Nuong love story
W.Minh Tuan Some people say this is not a legend, just a literary fiction love story. But in this story, there is a girl named My Nuong, which is the name of the Hung King’s daughters, or the daughters of Lang mandarins during the Hung King’s time. And Lang mandarins are Hung Vuong King’ sons.
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Book Thinking about Vietnam, Part 3-Legend 6: Banh chung-banh day
W.Minh Tuan Legend has it that during the reign of the sixth Hung King, after defeating the An enemy, King Hung wanted to pass the throne to his sons. The king set up a competition among his children, that the one who could find the most delicious food and present the most meaningful feast on…
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Book Thinking about Vietnam, part 3, Legend 5, the story of watermelon and Mr. An Tiem
W.Minh Tuan Legend has it that during the reign of the sixth Hung King, a foreigner wandered to our country of Van Lang, and the sixth Hung King took care of him, gave him a title, gave him the name An Tiem, and gave him a wife. Mr. An Tiem became rich and luxurious.
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Book Thinking about Vietnam, Part 3, The fourth legend, the story of Trau and Areca
W.Minh Tuan According to many researchers, the custom of chewing betel and areca nuts in Vietnam probably started during the period of the Hung Kings. Legend has it that around the reign of the fourth Hung King, (some documents say that during the reign of the 6th Hung King), there was a Quan Lang mandarin…
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Book Thinking about Vietnam-Part 3-The third legend: Saint Giong-Phu Dong Thien Vuong
W.Minh Tuan Legend has it that during the sixth reign of King Hung Vuong, the country was at peace for a long time. King Hung Vuong neglected to defend the country, so the An enemy invaded. At that time, in Phu Dong village, Bac Ninh province today, there was an old couple over 60…
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Book Thinking about Vietnam country-Part 3: The second legend: Chu Dong Tu, Tien Dung
W.Minh Tuan Legend has it that during the time of the third Hung King, named Hung Quoc Vuong, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Lac Long Quan-Au Co, in the Hung Yen region, Khoai Chau district today, about 30 km from Hanoi, there was a poor boy named Chu Dong Tu, both two…
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Book Thinking about Vietnam-Part 3: 9 famous legends of the Hung King period. Legend 1: Lac Son, Hong Grandson, Mr. Lac Long Quan, and Mrs.Au Co and 100 eggs
W.Minh Tuan In the world, almost every country has its own treasures of famous fairy tales and legends. Germany has wonderful Grimm’s Fairy Tales, which are spread all over the world, for example, Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs, Cinderella, The Wolf and Little girl wearing a Red Hood,,,, .
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Book Thinking about Vietnam country-Part 2: Is it true that during the Hung King period, Vietnamese people had own writing, called Khoa Dau?
W.Minh Tuan We know that we Vietnamese people do not have our own writing. In the past, we used Chinese characters. Then some scholars of the Tran Dynasty came up with Nom, but very few people used it.
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Vietnamese people are quite free to publish newspapers during the French period, to protect Vietnamese culture – Ha Thanh Ngo Bao by Hoang Tich Chu
During the French period, Vietnamese people were quite free to publish newspapers. Mr. Hoang Tich Chu owned four major newspapers in Hanoi in the 1930s, to have a voice to protect Vietnamese culture.
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President Vaclav Havel of Czech Republic: Ending the era of lies and fear
Introduction: On November 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall in East Germany collapsed, starting the process of unifying the two Germanys. Also in November 1989, the people of Czechoslovakia also took to the streets to protest peacefully, without violence, without bloodshed, demanding an end to the communist dictatorship of the Socialist Republic of Tiep Khac-…
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Hà Nội thời Pháp thuộc, thanh lịch và văn hóa
W.Minh Tuan (Theo báo Hà Nội Mới) Người Pháp vào đô hộ Việt Nam ta từ khoảng những năm 1850, và mang theo văn hóa Pháp, phong cách Pháp, kinh tế Pháp, cách quản lý hành chính Pháp, cơ cấu tổ chức bộ máy Nhà nước theo kiểu Pháp, và mang tiếng Pháp vào…
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China’s fighting style in the Korean War of 1950-1953
W.Minh Tuan Part 1: North Korea attacks. Korea was invaded by Japan, and in 1945, at the end of World War II, Japan lost the battle, Korea was temporarily divided into North and South Korea, awaiting reunification. North Korea was occupied by the Soviet Union, and was handed over to Kim Il Sung.
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American prisoners of war POWs in Hoa Lo-Hilton Hanoi
W.Minh Tuan During the Vietnam War, 1954-1975, there were 591 American prisoners of war were captured and held in Hoa Lo prison, Hanoi. Most American POWs in Vietnam, at Hilton Hanoi, were American pilots who flew and dropped bombs over Hanoi and North Vietnam.
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The only female French prisoner at the battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954- nurse Geneviève de Gallard
(Based on Vietnamese newspapers) On the afternoon of May 7, 1954, we ended the Dien Bien Phu campaign by destroying the entire Dien Bien Phu Group of fortresses and capturing alive all the French troops, including the headquarters and all the garrison troops stationed in the area. Among those prisoners, there was a rather special…
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How did the US intelligence OSS-CIA help the Viet Minh in the August revolution?
W.Minh Tuan. Background In June 1940, France was invaded by Germany, and France surrendered quickly. The Japanese army took advantage of this opportunity and invaded Indochina. In September 1940, the French army in Indochina had to agree for Japan to share the rule of three Indochina countries, Vietnam-Cambodia-Laos.
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Rabbi Alexandres De Rhodes, the man who had the greatest merit in founding the Vietnamese word today, talked about the Vietnamese people in the 17th century
W.Minh Tuan Introduction I teach Vietnamese at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. The first time I visited the school’s library, I saw a large glass cabinet in the entrance hall, inside there were a few books that seemed like old books. I stopped by to see if there was anything interesting, and was surprised to…