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Nguyễn Tuân
Nguyễn Tuân (July 10, 1910 – July 28, 1987) was a renowned Vietnamese author. Books about public schools in Vietnam rank him as one of the nine most famous authors of contemporary Vietnamese literature. He wrote essays on multiple subjects, with clever and creative use of language. Hanoi has a street named after him, in the Thanh Xuan district. Biography Nguyễn Tuân was born on July 10, 1910, on Hàng Bạc street in Hanoi. His family lived in Thượng Đình hamlet, Nhân Mục commune (commonly known as Mọc village), today part of Nhân Chính, Thanh Xuân, Nhân Chính ward, Thanh Xuân District, Thanh Xuân district, Hanoi. His family adhered to the traditional Confucianism, but by the time of his childhood, Confucianism and traditional Chinese-influenced education had started to decline, replaced by more modern French-influenced culture. In 1929, during his last year of intermediate schooling (the equivalence of ninth grade in junior high school), Nguyễn Tuâ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Nguyễn (阮) (sometimes abbreviated as Ng̃) is the most common surname of the Vietnamese people. Outside of Vietnam, the surname is commonly rendered without diacritics as ''Nguyen''. By some estimates 30 to 39 percent of Vietnamese people bear this surname.Lê Trung Hoa, ''Họ và tên người Việt Nam'', NXB Khoa học - Xã hội, 2005 Origin and usage is the transcription of the Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary, Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation of the character wikt:阮, 阮, which originally was used to write a name of a state in Gansu or Ruan (instrument), ruan, an ancient Chinese instrument. The same Chinese character is often romanized as in Standard Chinese, Mandarin and as in Cantonese. The first recorded mention of a person surnamed Nguyễn is a description dating AD 317, of a journey to Jiaozhou (region), Giao Châu undertaken by Eastern Jin dynasty officer Nguyễn Phu and his family. Many events in Vietnamese history have contributed to the name's prominence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
