Vietnam Literature

Vietnam Literature

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  Vietnamese Literature •Vietnamese literature was developed at an early date. Despite the harsh trials of history in the form of repeated foreign invasion, its own characteristics remain.
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  Vietnamese Literature •Vietnamese literature includes two major components which have developed simultaneously and are profoundly interrelated: Folk literature and written literature.
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  Folk Literature •Vietnamese folk literature came into being very early and had a profound effect on the spiritual life of the Viet's. The folk literature always praised beauty, humanism, and the love of goodness, and contributed to the formation of a national sense.
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  Folk Literature •Legends, fairy tales, humorous stories, folk songs, epics and so on have a tremendous vitality and have lived on today.
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  Written Literature •First appeared around the 10th century. It had a leading role and bore the main traits of Vietnamese literature.
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  Written Literature •From the 10th century, literary works were written in Han (classical Chinese) and chu nom. But since the 16th century, chu nom literature became increasingly popular, and held a prim position by the early 18th century.
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  Written Literature •Well-known works written in chu nom included Chinh Phu Ngam by female poet Doan Thi Diem, the Kieu story by Nguyen Du, and chu nom poems of female poet Ho Xuan Huong.
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  Written Literature •These works were the cream of Vietnamese literature. However entering the 20th century, works written in classical Chinese disappeared.
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  Written Literature •In the 20's, and the following decades, the country's literature was written in Vietnamese quoc ngu (Romanized national language).
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  Vietnamese Literature •From then on Vietnamese literature developed constantly, particularly during the two wars of resistance for national liberation. Many young authors emerged in the literary circles.
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  Vietnamese Literature •Traditionally, Vietnamese literature always featured patriotism, national pride and humanism. It was not by chance that great cultural personalities such as Nguyen Trai, Nguyen Du and Ho Chi Minh were also humanists.
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