Zeng Gun (曾袞;

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: Tseng Kun) was an officer of Chinese

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, he served as the governor of the

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polity in

northern Vietnam Northern Vietnam ( vi, Bắc Bộ) is one of three geographical regions within Vietnam. It consists of three administrative regions: the Northwest (Vùng Tây Bắc), the Northeast (Vùng Đông Bắc), and the Red River Delta (Đồng Bằng S ...

from 878 to 880. Zeng Gun also had served

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during the Nanzhao war. During the years he lived in northern Vietnam, he had interests in local culture and spent years in collecting local folklore. His works include the story '' Mountain spirit'' and ''the Spirit of

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''. Contributions of Zeng Gun and Zhao Chang (

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791–802) later were cited by 14th century Vietnamese author

Lý Tế Xuyên Lý Tế Xuyên (chữ Hán: 李濟川; fl. 1400) was a Vietnamese historian, compiler of the '' Việt Điện U Linh Tập'' (Collection of Stories on Spirits of the Departed in the Viet Realm). The text gives not the history of historical figures ...

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(1329).

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