Ca trù, also known as hát ả đào, is a Vietnamese genre of musical storytelling performed by a featuring female vocalist, with origins in northern Vietnam. For much of its history, it was associated wi
Nguyễn Du, courtesy name Tố Như and art name Thanh Hiên, was a poet and scholar-official, widely acclaimed as one of the most important writers of Vietnamese literature. Fluent in both Literary Chines
Nguyễn Du's statue at the site of his ancestral house in Hà Tĩnh Province.
A Đại Việt delegate to the Qing court in 1761. The mandarin robes worn by Du's family would have been similar to this.
Armies of the Trịnh lords, depicted in an 18th-century painting at the Vietnam National Museum of Fine Arts.
Qing portrait of Nguyễn Huệ, also known as Emperor Quang Trung.