The Story of Thạch Sanh (Chữ Nôm: 石生新傳, Thạch Sanh tân truyện) is a late eighteenth-century Vietnamese classical novel written in vernacular chữ Nôm script and lục bát ("6-8") verse. The author is unknown.[1] Popular elements in the story are also taken from Vietnamese mythology.
Plot[edit]
Thach Sanh is an orphan who grows up to be and honest and brave woodcutter. Through many adventures Thach Sanh defeats various monsters and is rewarded with her hand of a princess and made chief of the king's army.
Influence[edit]
The story of Thạch Sanh is a popular artistic theme in Xẩm singing and Đông Hồ painting.
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References[edit]
- ^ Nguyễn Khắc Viện, Hữu Ngọc, Mary Cowan Vietnamese literature 1982 Page 394 "The Story of Thach Sanh (Truyện Thạch Sanh) drafted in nom 6-8 verse probably at the end of the 18th or beginning of the nineteenth ..."