''Lục súc tranh công'' (六畜爭功 "The Quarrel of the Six Beasts") is a classic narrative poem written in late Eighteenth Century Vietnam. Although the title is given in classical

chữ Hán Chữ Hán (𡨸漢, literally "Chinese characters", ), Chữ Nho (𡨸儒, literally "Confucian characters", ) or Hán tự (漢字, ), is the Vietnamese term for Chinese characters, used to write Văn ngôn (which is a form of Classical Chinese ...

the poem itself is written in the vernacular Vietnamese language in Vietnamese chữ Nôm and lục bát verse. The poem is anonymous. It is set in the

tuồng ''Hát tuồng'' (, Chữ Nôm: 咭從) or ''hát bội'' (, Chữ Nôm: 咭佩) is a form of Vietnamese theatre. Hát tuồng is often referred to as classical "Vietnamese opera" influenced by Chinese opera. Tuồng is distinct from the olde ...

form of traditional drama.The Vietnam review - Volume 4 - Page 6 1998 "Among the corpus of classical Vietnamese literature, the Lục súc tranh công (The Quarrel of the Six Beasts) stands out in several respects. This narrative poem is cast in the form of a piece of traditional drama known as tuồng rather than in six-eight (luc bat) verse, the conventional medium for storytelling. The style features a heavy use of verbal parallelism (biin ngdu), beginning ...."

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