(The chronicle of the catfish and the frog) is a 398-line satirical poem written in Vietnam in the 13th Century.
In the poem a catfish steals the tadpoles of two frogs. The frogs appeal to the mandarin who orders the catfish imprisoned. However the wife of the catfish bribes the mandarin's assistant to have the case re-examined. After inspection of the pond the mandarin's inspectors declare that the tadpoles are the true offspring of the catfish. Along with folk tales such as ''
Thằng Bờm ''Thằng Bờm'' (Bờm the Fool, Bờm the village idiot) is a Vietnamese folktale
A folktale or folk tale is a folklore genre that typically consists of a story passed down from generation to generation orally.
Folktale may also refer to:
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'' the ''Truyện Trê Cóc'' was one of the poems reanalysed by scholars such as
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Ninh Viết Giao ( Thanh Hoá, c. 1930) is a Vietnamese writer. He graduated from Hanoi University
Hanoi University (HANU; vi, Đại học Hà Nội) (formerly Hanoi University of Foreign Studies), established in 1959 in Hanoi, is an ins ...
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[Patricia M. Pelley ''Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past'' 2002 p270 "Writers such as Ngô Quân Miện, Ngọc Lân, Nguyễn Hồng Phong, Ninh Viết Giao, Trần Hữu Chí, Trương Chính, and Văn Tân debated the meaning of the folktales Thằng Bờm and Truyện Trê Cóc."]
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Vietnamese poems