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| Quốc âm thi tập | |
|---|---|
| Name | Quốc âm thi tập |
| Original title | Quốc âm thi tập |
| Language | Early Vietnamese (chữ Nôm) |
| Author | Traditional attribution to Đỗ Nhuận (disputed) |
| Date | circa 14th century (traditional) |
| Genre | Poetry anthology |
Quốc âm thi tập Quốc âm thi tập is a seminal anthology of vernacular Vietnamese poetry compiled in the medieval period that marks a transition in literary practice among elites in Đại Việt, engaging with traditions from Tang dynasty China, the Lý dynasty, and the Trần dynasty. The collection is associated with developments in chữ Nôm literacy and reflects interactions among figures connected to the Thăng Long court, Buddhist monasteries such as Quán Sứ, and Confucian scholars tied to the Imperial examinations. Its circulation influenced later poets in the Lê dynasty and informed modern philological work by scholars in Hanoi and abroad.
The anthology emerges amid cultural exchanges involving Tang dynasty literary forms, diplomatic contact with Song dynasty literati, and indigenous innovation under the Lý dynasty and Trần dynasty monarchs such as Lý Thái Tổ and Trần Nhân Tông. Court poets, Buddhist monks, and mandarins who served in the Royal Court of Đại Việt used chữ Nôm to render vernacular speech parallel to classical Chinese verse used by sinicized literati. The period saw contemporaneous texts like Nam quốc sơn hà and inscriptions at Đông Văn>
Traditional attributions link the compilation to figures associated with the Thăng Long intellectual milieu and court circles; later scholars debated connections to individuals active during reigns of Trần Thái Tông and Trần Thánh Tông. Manuscript evidence ties some poems to scribes known from temple registers at Quán Sứ and Bút Tháp pagodas. Colonial-era researchers in Hanoi and French scholars from institutions such as the École française d'Extrême-Orient examined variants thought to originate from private collections held by families in Hưng Yên and Nam Định.
Quốc âm thi tập exemplifies early chữ Nôm use, juxtaposing vernacular morphology with Sino-Vietnamese lexemes and idioms found in texts circulated in Yên Tử and Hoa Lư. Linguistic features show contact phenomena similar to those studied in works connected to Nguyễn Trãi and Nguyễn Du; its versification informs analyses by philologists in Hanoi and comparative projects at Université de Paris. The anthology contributes to understanding the rise of vernacular literary identity alongside classical works like the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư.
The collection contains lục bát-like measures and regulated forms resonant with regulated verse from Tang dynasty models, while themes reflect devotional practice in Thiền Buddhism, courtly life under Trần dynasty rulers, and landscape tropes tied to regions such as Red River Delta, Mỹ Sơn, and Tam Đảo. Recurring motifs align with devotional songs to figures like Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara in Vietnamese worship, as well as elegies recalling events connected to battles near Bạch Đằng River and voyages across the Gulf of Tonkin.
Surviving witnesses are fragmentary, preserved in palm-leaf and paper manuscripts held in temple archives at Quán Sứ and family collections in Hà Nội and Huế. European collectors and scholars from institutions such as the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the British Library cataloged some Nôm items during the 19th and 20th centuries, prompting critical editions based on collation of copies found in Hà Nam and Thanh Hóa repositories. Paleographic features connect hands to scribes trained in scripts used in imperial registries under Lê Thánh Tông.
The anthology influenced poets and literati in successive dynasties, shaping vernacular composition among authors like Nguyễn Trãi, Nguyễn Du, and folk traditions collected by scholars such as Phan Huy Ích and Nguyễn Văn Siêu. Collectors and editors in the Nguyễn dynasty and later nationalists in the early 20th century invoked its vernacular prestige during cultural debates in Hanoi and publications linked to the Hợp tác xã Văn hóa. Reception studies trace citations and allusions in works of Trương Vĩnh Ký and in pedagogical reforms affecting Quốc-ngữ diffusion.
Critical scholarship began with 19th-century cataloging by Émile Cresson-era researchers and intensified with 20th-century Nôm studies at institutions like the Viện Nghiên cứu Hán Nôm and universities in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Modern critical editions rely on comparative philology practiced by scholars such as Nguyễn Văn Huyên and international collaborations with researchers at SOAS and École pratique des hautes études. Recent work employs digital paleography and corpus linguistics methods developed at Vietnam National University and projects funded by cultural ministries to produce annotated transcriptions and translations for comparative study alongside anthologies like Truyền kỳ mạn lục and Chinh phụ ngâm.
Category:Vietnamese poetry