Nhân vật dương vân nga – lịch sử và truyền thuyết tt tieng anh

1 MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING HANOI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION HOANG THI HONG THAM DUONG VAN NGA CHARACTER - THE HISTORY AND THE LEGENDS Specialized in: Folk Literature Code: 9.22.01.25 DISSERTATION PHILOLOGICAL HA NOI – 2020 This thesis has been completed in Hanoi National University of education Scientific Guide: Associate Prof Dr Nguyen Thi Bich Ha Judge one: Prof Dr Le Chi Que Judge two: Prof Dr Nguyen Xuan Kinh Judge three: Associate Prof Dr Tran Duc Ngon This thesis will be reserved in research and recognition Committee of Hanoi National University of Education on … hour….date, … month…year This thesis can be looked for in National Library of Vietnam or Library of Hanoi National University of Education LIST OF AUTHOR’S WORKS Hoang Thi Hong Tham (2016), “The assassination of Dinh Tien Hoang’s king, from the history to the legends”, Collection of research works in Literature, Volume (Graduate Scientific Conference in Literature – 2016), Hanoi University of Education Publishing house Hoang Thi Hong Tham (2018), “Continuing making interpretations on the queens of Dinh Tien Hoang”, Jourrnal of Science and Technology, Danang University, (123) Hoang Thi Hong Tham (2018), “Dương Vân Nga – two opposite opinions from the public” Journal of Science, Ho Chi Minh city University of Education, 15 (2) Hoang Thi Hong Tham (2018), “Some comments on the role of the field trip method when having a field trip about a legendary person who has opposite opinion from th public”, Training and retraining Literature teachers before the requirements of general education reform (Proceedings of national workshops), Hanoi National University Publishing house FOREWORD Reason for choosing topic: The Xth century was a volatile century with great events in national history and also witnessed continuous change of throne, foreign victories Resounding, beating up the rebellion, unifying the country to one In the century, there was a character that played an important role in transferring power from the Dinh dynasty to Tien Le dynasty, but that character was not honored as historical figure at the same time because there were suspicion and opposite opinions It is the mother of king brought Duong's family name, whose life later called Duong Van Nga With outstanding contributions in the general development process of history, she deserved the posterity to remember merit and honor Mother of king brought Duong's family name was the Queen of king - Dinh Tien Hoang, but after the king was murdered, the court was in turmoil, she handed over her son's throne to the Chancellor Le Hoan and remarried to him With this action, feudal history used to criticize her, but the major folk legend praised her, acknowledging her merits to the people and the country The system of temples and shrines is a vivid testimony to the people's gratitude for her The opposite in assessment, different views in recording merit and impeachment of posterity has created an interesting of the “doubledynasty's queen”, this suggests us to approach this character from the perspective of folk legends Considering the Vietnamese legend system, the approach to the group of people which has mixed opinions in general, the case of Duong - queen in particular is in the aspect of legend is necessary for the teaching and research of literature current folk Hoping from the realm of legend, the topic will contribute a new perspective on one of the special phenomena of Vietnam history Research purposes - The thesis aims to find out the similarities and differences between history and legends, from that we can see the views and attitudes of folk authors towards this character, and at the same time desire to learn more deeply and fully about the genre of legends, supporting our research and teaching legend at the University level - From the perspective of legends, we place this character in a wider range than contemporary culture and society (specifically: spiritual culture, political culture, contemporary art and literature and existing cases) aiming for a fuller appreciation as well as seeing the vitality of this particular historical figure in the course of time Researching tasks - Systematizing historical documents and legends about Duong Van Nga - Finding out more or redefine available resources about Duong Van Nga's character through fieldwork in the communal houses and temples - Learning history of Duong Van Nga's character research and theoretical issues about legend and history and along the time axis from the past to the present - Identifying the theoretical issues which are related to legends to support the research of this thesis - Researching Duong Van Nga legend through basic motifs - Comparing similarities and differences (or difference) between the history and the legend of Duong Van Nga and explain the causes - Giving, explanation and assessment of Duong Van Nga character from a contemporary research perspective Object and scope of research The scope of research is character Duong Van Nga from areas: history and folk legends Regarding the scope of documentaries, we have surveyed 27 legends (including 13 collected and published legends, 14 legends still exist in folk) which related to Duong Thai hau, combined to find where having traces, autographs history of this character About historically, we are interested in the historical books on her people and times such as Dai Viet historical summary, Multisides of Vietnam history (Ngo Si Lien), and Dai Viet early compilation history (Ngo Thi Si), Vietnam history through small sentences (Ngo Thi Si), Imperial chronicle history outline (National history of Nguyen Dynasty) to have an overall and systematic assessment of her - a witness of history and humanity wrestling of folk legends The research space of the project focuses on Ninh Binh and extends to Nam Dinh, Ha Nam, Thanh Hoa and Nghe An provinces, everywhere has legend or worship her Researching methodology: We use some of the following methods: countryside method, comparative method type, secondary document analysis method, folk language study method and interdisciplinary research method Expected contributions of the thesis The subject of Duong Van Nga's character - the history and the legends is the first project to recreate and systematize the legend of the Duong queen in the Dinh and Le dynasties Based on the method of comparative type, we also searched and analyzed the seven basic motifs that structure the Duong Van Nga legend These motifs have shown the similarity between the legends Duong Van Nga and some other legends, as well as vivid proof of the common characters of folk tales With 27 legends about Duong Van Nga that we have codified, with 11 separate monuments and worship her, with the systematization of contrary ideas and opinions about her this dissertation will be a useful references about Duong Van Nga character, and contributed to enrich the legend system of Vietnamese historical characters The analyzing process of seven main motifs, mapping the plot structure model and comparing the similarities - the difference between our history and the legend of Duong Van Nga to highlight the value of the legend group also as a folk opinion in this complex way of evaluating this historical character Researching this topic, we want to give her a more worthy position in culture and society life today From a cultural perspective, the dissertation has approached the aspects: spiritual culture, political culture and contemporary art and literature, at the same time analyzing the two existing cases of the Duong Thai hau to see that the arguments concerning her in contemporary society are still vividly present in the cultural life of Vietnamese people The thesis structure In addition to the Introduction, Conclusion, Reference, Appendix, the thesis consists of chapters, as follows: - Chapter 1: Overview of researching situation and basic theoretical of the topic - Chapter 2: Researching historical documents and legends about Duong Van Nga's character - Chapter 3: Duong Van Nga's character through the legend of the author - Chapter 4: Duong Van Nga's character in contemporary cultural and social life CONTENT CHAPTER 1: OVERVIEW OF RESEARCHING SITUATION AND BASIC THEORETICAL OF THE TOPIC The central task of chapter is to summarize the situation of research and to present basic theoretical issues About researching history and documents concerned to Duong Van Nga's character include chronicles and independent research works On the theoretical basis, we will present the basic issues, which underlie the topic such as: the relationship between legend and history, the relationship between legend and worship, legendary issues and legendary textualization with some other theories 1.1 Historical overview of research topics - In terms of history: the Middle ages, except: Dai Viet historical summary, Multisides of Vietnam history and Dai Viet early compilation history, Vietnam history through small sentences, Imperial chronicle history outline were very harshly critical actions: Duong queen crowned and became the queen of Mr Le Hoan In the modern era, one of the first people to defend the Queen was Song Coi (Hoa Bang) in 1942, followed by researchers such as Van Tan (in 1971), Nguyen Danh Phiet (1981), Nguyen The Giang (1982), La Dang Bat (1998), Lee Seon Hee (2000), Tran Trong Duong (2019) many seminars such as The context of Thang Long capital and career of Le Hoan (2005), Identity, career and monument of Le Dai Hanh - Duong Van Nga (2007) There have been objective, new comments, which are mostly praised, affirming the Queen's merit in the context of a country hang by a single hair 10 - In terms of legends, the stories told about her appeared in the cast singing medieval period (Hoan Vuong history song, Thien Nam continental language, Dai Nam national history); narratives of collectors and editors in the modern period such as Nguyen Van Tro, Truong Dinh Tuong, Nguyen Thi Kim Cuc Besides, there are legends about her currently circulating among the people, concentrated in the localities where her temples such as Ninh Binh, Nam Dinh, Nghe An This piece of legend is currently mainly used as an adjunct in social and historical studies of the Dinh - Le period but has not really paid attention to the central character of the story, Duong Van Nga This is a suggestive way for us to implement the thesis topic 1.2 Many concepts, terms: - The legend concept: The thesis uses the legendary concept of researcher Kieu Thu Hoach: “Legend is a form of oral narrative, in the form of folk narratives; its plot content is to retell stories of historical figures or explain the origins of local artifacts from the people's point of view; Its popular artistic measure is rhetoric, exaggerating, and at the same time it uses fictional, magical elements such as fairy tales and myths; it is different from fairy tales in that it is not intended to reflect family conflict, social life and personal destiny, but often reflects matters of a broad national and ethnic scale; it is different from myth in the way of shaping nature and society on the basis of concrete historical truth, not entirely in imagination and in imagination ” - The name Duong Van Nga: Surveying the history books of large feudal chronologies and some modern history books, we found 13 CHAPTER 2: RESEARCHING HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AND LEGENDS ABOUT DUONG VAN NGA'S CHARACTER As we presented in the theory (chapter 1), history and legends are two categories that are closely related Within the scope of the thesis, that relationship is vividly expressed through the history and folklore about Duong Van Nga / Duong queen of Dinh-Le dynasties Therefore, we used the whole chapter of the dissertation to survey historical documents and legends about the Queen of two dynasties Our survey of historical documents is not intended to define history but only serves as a fulcrum and bridge to study the legend of the Duong Van Nga's character That is the main target that the thesis aims to 2.1 Duong Van Nga's character through historical documents 2.1.1 Historical, social and cultural context of Vietnam in the 10th century Historically, the Xth century was a volatile century with great events in national history and also witnessed continuous change of throne, foreign victories Resounding, beating up the rebellion, unifying the country to one, during this period, the central monarchy was formed but still simple, not ensuring its intrinsic principles Feudal dynasties of this period also paid attention to building a culture of national identity Although Confucianism has invaded Vietnam since the beginning of the Northern domination, in the 10th century, it still didn't position in Dinh - Le dynasty society The phenomena such as giving the throne, taking the queen of the preemperor in marriage the phenomena of history that more or less 14 attached to the cultural and social font of that period Therefore, the Vietnamese context in the 10th century will be the basis for explaining some issues related to the topic of the thesis 2.1.2 Theories about Duong Van Nga's background and political position To now, there have been many hypotheses about the background, the origin of the Duong Queen of Dinh and Le dynasties The history books have recorded the event that Dinh King established five Queens but did not explain the names and backgrounds of theirs There have been a number of researchers looking for a solution to this question but so far the problem still remains in doubt Regarding the background of Duong Van Nga, through the way of political alliance with the marriage of Dinh dynasty, we leaned on the hypothesis that she belonged to Duong Tam Kha, a contemporary ethnic caliber range Regarding the political position in the royal family, through history books and fieldwork practice, we think that she is only the queen of the two dynasties - Dinh and Le The reason for the complexity of her judgment on the status and political position is due to the overlap between historical events, the brief recording of historical writers plus the setback of the time taken to clarify the name of the famous queen in the history of Vietnam feudal dynasties has become a challenge for posterity 2.1.3 From work of conferring the Queen position of Dinh Tien Hoang's story came to “one queen got married to two kings” After coming to the throne, Dinh Tien Hoang got married Queens: Dan Gia, Trinh Minh, Kieu Quoc, Co Quoc and Ca Ong We 15 think that Dinh king established many queens as a manifestation of the marriage model - political alliance and also proved that he was not really dominated by the concept of Confucianism In the history of Vietnam feudal dynasties, it is not uncommon for a queen to have two husbands but a queen had two husbands who were both kings and had a great political role in both dynasties, Duong Van Nga is a unique phenomenon This phenomenon does not only reflect the current historical and political context but also shows the existence of the “liberal margin” of ancient Vietnamese culture 2.1.4 Duong Van Nga, who transferred power from Dinh dynasty to the Tien Le dynasty After successive events under Dinh dynasty, Duong - mother of king and courtiers had established Le Hoan to be king The act of her has caused many controversies and compliments In our opinion, this transfer of power stems from the historical reality at that time: dissonance, division within the Dinh dynasty, the situation of widow's mother - the orphan of Duong - mother of king, the invasion of the Tong dynasty, the pressure of opposing forces (the central faction with the Dinh and Le Hoan factions) and the tradition of respect for talented people still exist in Dai Co Viet society It can be said that the event “turning dynasty” of Dinh - Le comes from a historical and social context, but it is impossible for an individual with selfish attempts to change the current political situation 2.2 Duong Van Nga's character through legendary documents 2.2.1 Collection data: Through the fieldwork process, we have collected 14 narratives In terms of form, there are some stories (such as The 16 legend of Dong Ben temple, Hanging the king’s and queen’s dresses at grave visiting festival, The statue being beaten and sweating ) are not really a true stories but only stories, however, we are still in the scope of the survey because they will contribute to making the Duong Van Nga legend system more complete and comprehensive 2.2.2 Resources for reference and research From the collected written sources, we have classified and selected 13 versions of Duong Van Nga 2.2.3 Comment on the survey results Regarding the scope of the survey: The total number of survey legends is 27 storytelling and motifs Regarding the circulating space, the focus of convergence of Duong Van Nga legend is in Ninh Binh and spread to other localities such as Nam Dinh and Nghe An In terms of structure, based on Kieu Thu Hoach's classification, we classified Duong Van Nga's legends into the character legend group Summary conclusion of chapter 2: Beng the contemporary of the tenth century, Duong Van Nga witnessed the fluctuations of history during this period, and also participated in the great events of two dynasties - Dinh and Le From the harem place, she was forced to enter the politic itself, taking responsibility for the court and the country when history selected her The history of choosing her but also made her suffer from beer for thousands of years when historians did not overcome the vision of the era, merely evaluating her by “virtue” of a woman in a feudal society that is not set in the context of a hot flash of contemporary fire History with hidden corners takes time to clarify, but it is undeniable that her actions are positive and timely, creating a legal basis for Le 17 Hoan to conquer the emperor, avoiding the Great State of Co Viet is a young warrior from the military sabotage from within to territorial inside, paving the way for the prosperous development of the country in the next dynasty - the Le dynasty In chapter 2, we also conducted a survey of collectible materials and research materials about the Duong Queen, tobe basis for understanding and analyzing motifs in the legend group Duong Van Nga in chapter 18 CHAPTER 3: DUONG VAN NGA'S CHARACTER THROUGH THE LEGEND OF THE AUTHOR In chapter 2, we have sketched the character of Duong Van Nga in the context of Vietnam history, culture and society in the 10 th century, at the same time we also conducted a survey of collecting and fieldwork materials about this character In chapter 3, we focus on analyzing motifs in the Duong Van Nga story series as well as placing the characters in the match between legends and history books to understand the similarities - differences in how this character is assessed 3.1 The motifs in the legend of Duong Van Nga Duong Van Nga's story group has main motifs: the strange birth, named after the characteristics at birth, the beauty harms the country, the singing with the royal spirit, the throne, attachment and the epiphany Motif accounts for more than giving the throne (7/27 stories) When going into legend, Duong Van Nga is recreated through some familiar motif such as the strange birth, named after the characteristics at birth, the beauty harms the country, the singing with the royal spirit, attachment and the epiphany in which a motif the singing with the royal spirit associated with the sharp, talented and changing the Court such as Y Lan, Dang Thi Hue This is the evidence for the participation of some motifs in folktales groups in general and legends in particular Besides, through motifs typical of the legends such as the beauty harms the country, the attachment and the epiphany, the folk author depicted a unique portrait of Duong Van Nga and timeless vitality 19 3.2 Duong Van Nga plot structure model While most of the legends of Duong Van Nga exist only in the form of short stories, when they are assembled, they still form a common plot with three parts: circumstances, character characteristics - behavior - ending character's career Below is a diagram of the plot model Duong Van Nga: Circumstances and character characteristics The strange birth Name beautiful The roots of troubles Behavior of the character Singing brings the king's style Romance Awarded the throne Ending the career of character Epiphany 3.3 Duong Van Nga character from the perspective of comparison between history books and legends 3.3.1 Similarity - the difference between the history and the legend of Duong Van Nga About similarity: Both feudal and lore histories had much in common when referring to the events related to the Queen of the Duong family, such as the love of her and awarded the throne to Le Hoan, she was the Queen of the two kings: Dinh - Le and the ritual of worshiping her The above similarities show the impact of history on the legend and vice versa 20 About the difference: if the history (mostly feudal history) recorded very briefly the events related to the behavior of the Duong queen according to the historical characteristics of the chronicle, the legend would concretize them, meaning that solve problems that history does not mention or are unclear; the place where she awarded the throne to Le Hoan The events which were related to this historical figure through the interpretation of the legend became concrete, understanding the reason, from there, Duong Van Nga's image was also vivid and closer to life 3.3.2 Explaining the similarity, the difference between the history and the legend of Duong Van Nga Reasons of similarity: Duong queen in the Dinh - Le period became the object of reflection of history and legends because she participated in and created a part of the tenth century history with a very special behavior: in the context of during the period of foreign aggression, she made a great decision: handing over her son's throne to foreigner, ending the era of the Dinh clan and opening the Tien Le Dynasty Reasons of the difference between Duong Van Nga's legends and histories on the one hand comes from the characteristics of these two fields: All writings about her in history are only continuous tactics associated with historical events; In legend, the core is the historical truth combined with "poetry and dream" that has transformed a Duong queen in history into an image that is both complicated and unified On the other hand, this difference was constrained by the ideology of the times: feudal historians rate Duong queen to Three Obediences and Four Virtues standards of 21 Confucianism, and folk authors mainly assess her in the role and responsibility of citizens in the context of the country in jeopardy Summary conclusion of chapter 3: Duong Van Nga's legend group reflects cultural classes, customs and ideology through different periods With 07 outstanding motifs, the folk author reconstructed the portrait of a powerful, sharp and multifaceted woman in the Xth century Putting the character Duong Van Nga in the match between legends and histories, we would like to emphasize that: from the perspective of feudal historians, she was not a virgin, exalted, not a wife the mother wholeheartedly for her children, but considering the role of a citizen for the country, she excellently fulfilled her obligations: placing national interests above those of the in-laws, leaving the son's throne to talented people who fought the enemy, saving Dai Co Viet from recolonization That had made the vitality of Duong Van Nga's character in folk consciousness 22 CHAPTER 4: DUONG VAN NGA'S CHARACTER IN CONTEMPORARY CULTURAL AND SOCIAL LIFE According to common sense, “contemporary” means the present time Here, we temporarily use the landmark after 1975, especially from the 6th Congress of the Party (1986), an important milestone in awareness and innovation in all aspects of Vietnamese life as a reference system for art these terms 4.1 Duong Van Nga character in contemporary spiritual culture space After a long history, the character of Duong Van Nga is still present in the spiritual and cultural life today, worshiping in some temples in the localities; in which, Ninh Binh is the place with the highest density of temples/communal houses (seven worshiping places) The system of Duong Van Nga worship places still in existence today shows that she still has an important position in the spiritual life of Vietnamese people Spiritual space with 11 places of worship that Ninh Binh is the center and radiating out of its satellite areas help us to visualize somewhat about the living space with her behavior more than a thousand years ago In the spiritual life of the local people, they have special spiritual cultural values, stories of Duong Van Nga always preserved and handed down for tomorrow, creating a close relationship between physical and intangible culture, between tradition and modernity 4.2 Duong Van Nga character in contemporary political and cultural life Contemporary public opinion when discussing her is still two compliments - but most want to “defend for Duong queen” with praise and sympathy In contemporary political and cultural life, she still has a certain position: mentioned, commented in seminars as: Context of Thang Long capital city and career of Le Hoan (2005); Identity, career and monument of Le Dai Hanh and Duong Van Nga (2007), was proposed to build a monument, was registered through the street name, became the subject of debate of the forum of the history The most rational explanation for this 23 interesting phenomenon should probably stand from the standpoint of the people, from the folk mind: historical figures are remembered by the people because they representing the interests, qualities and spirit of both the community and the nation 4.3 Duong Van Nga in contemporary art literature In the literary domain, stories and historical novels appeared about her These stories have a short capacity, which is an adaptation of folk legends (even the books whose titles have identified the genre as legends) as: Stories of queens in Vietnamese history (1997) - Pham Minh Thao, Legend of Hoa Lu (1988) and Legend of Dinh - Le (2003) - Truong Dinh Tuong, Patriotic of Ai Chau land (2015) - Nguyen Huy Sanh In the novel, she was recreated very vivid and very life She seems to want to escape the rules and patterns of life to live with her and always be herself: Duong Van Nga love story (1990) - Hoai Anh, Historical celebrity - Duong Van Nga, queen of two dynasties (1996) - Hoang Cong Khanh, The poem of violet wipe purple (2000) - Ngo Van Phu, Duong Van Nga - immature and abyss (2005) - Ngo Viet Trong, The sword and the beauty (2018) - Bui Anh Tan In the field of theater, she became the artistic inspiration of traditional operetta, reformer as Truc Duong, Le Duy Hanh, Hoa Phuong, Chi Lang, Hoa Ha Most notably, her image in reforming with a history of more than 40 years continues to be reconstructed and is considered one of the classic models of Vietnam's reformed village (the play Duong Van Nga - Mother of king, directed by Hoa Ha, 2018) 4.4 Duong Van Nga and existing projects 4.4.1 About the suspicion of killing Dinh king There are two theories about the sudden death of Dinh's father and son: one, they were murdered by Do Thich to steal the throne; secondly, the mastermind of this assassination was Duong queen and Le Hoan, and Do Thich was only a chess piece in their hands Regarding the second hypothesis related to Duong queen, we suppose that in the death of Dinh’s king, Duong lost more than that: losing her husband, losing a strong support 24 for herself and her son, having to shoulder her burden in a turbulent state, the country is at risk of foreign invasion Therefore, it is difficult to convince her that she had “set up a plot, set her mind, and poisoned her to kill her father and son” Besides, we can also refer to folk consciousness for further evaluation on this issue (the worship of Duong queen with Dinh Tien Hoang, procession of her statue to the old husband's death anniversary, the statue of a grandmother to pray for her husband's funeral ) 4.4.2 About suspecting to have secret relations with Le Hoan Regarding the suspicion of “having secret relations” with Le Hoan, most of feudal historians relied on the queen to let Le Hoan freely go in and out of the palace and conspiracy to take over Dinh's dynasty, saying that she had a crush on him, the conspiracy to take over Dinh's dynasty and then got married to him In our opinion, the marriage between Le Hoan and Duong Van Nga is more political than a marriage with its true meaning The event Duong Van Nga became the empress of the Le king as the final legalization step to give Le Hoan the throne in peace and as a way of power alliance between two dynasties - two forces Summary conclusion of chapter 4: Although there were many essays, reviews around the fact that she gave Le Hoan a long dress and later re-married him, the posterity still wanted to find an accurate answer to relieve all interrogations which was related to the royal dynasty That explains why in contemporary cultural, political and social life, there continue to be forums, seminars, events about her and related to her From real life, Duong Van Nga entered the legend and later the historical novel through different descriptions, conceptions of folk writers and writers The specialness in her behavior and destiny has been and will become a creative inspiration of art and literature The existence of Duong Van Nga in contemporary social, political and artistic life had affirmed the vitality and topicality of events and characters in a country whose history is most intense in the national defense war history 25 CONCLUSION Being a historical character with court rituals, Duong Van Nga has appeared in history books with both public opinions: good - bad, complimented - criticized, specifically the judgments on the act of giving the throne to Le Hoan and then became one of the five emperors of the founder of the Tien Le Dynasty If the feudal history books like Complete annals of Dai Viet, The Imperially ordered annotated text completely, Viet su tieu an… agreed that her actions stem from personal purpose with impure motives as betrayed lord, betrayed husband the majority of modern researchers agree that these actions are wise and innovative This shows that the opinion of Duong Van Nga is dominated by the view of the times From the folk writing, the thesis has contributed to explain the two actions of Duong Van Nga as the throne and after becoming the queen of Le Hoan from the Vietnam cultural roots, that is the tradition of worshiping our ancestors' talent, and that is the “liberal margins” of ancient Vietnam culture We also studied basic motifs of story groups to thereby identifying its structure Analyzing the group of legends about Duong Van Nga, we have studied this character systematically, but also want to prove that although this is a story about a “sticking” historical suspicion, it still has many similarities with story groups about heroes and cultural celebrities in general That is the similarity in the three-stage structure: the situation and character characteristics, character's behavior and the end of the character's career The formation and development of the Duong Van Nga story group derives from the common cradle of culture, thought, emotion, people's thinking about history and people who make history It reflects the history and spiritual life of the Vietnamese people in the Xth century, creating a face of a special historical period with people and destiny also very special Approaching Duong Van Nga character from the perspective of legends helps us see the close relationship between this genre and history If history uses to record events about her to the utmost, the legend extends the 26 creative margin of keeping stories that are both true and unrelated to life, behavior and worshiping rites her They form unique motifs for the plot, which are circulated in localities such as Ninh Binh, Ha Nam and Thanh Hoa These localities are also the gathering place of the temples - the temple worshiping her, in which the focus is on the land of Ninh Binh with seven relics of worship The coexistence of physical relics and folk legends once again affirms the close relationship between the legend and worship, between historical figures and places, between folklore and reality Studying the legend of a two-dimensional public figure is interesting but to understand it in the contemporary historical context and the legend has been handed down through different spaces and times is not easy The luster of folk writers through the ages has created diversity and appeal for the story group and also makes it complicated, the specific complexity of folklore: A story is told with many different narratives, along with the subjective impression of the storyteller, sometimes creating differences compared to previous stories Although the narrator was aware that they only “collected, compiled” but it was easy to recognize their interference with the details and content of the story This fact raises the issue of studying Duong Van Nga legend in the contemporary context The works of this character in the contemporary period focus on two cases: one is a legendary adaptation phenomenon; the second is the “fake legend” phenomenon It shows that the legend is a “dynamic object”, which is first and foremost the movement in the opinion of the narrator or the editor Although it bears the imprint of the scribe but with the characteristics of the genre, the legend still has binding provisions that make the collector obey This helps Duong Van Nga's story group retain its core elements Duong Van Nga's character not only exists in folk memory but also exists in today's political and cultural life, becoming the creative inspiration of modern art and literature She has transformed into a character of cheo, reformed, historical novels Art literature has portrayed 27 a multi-dimensional portrait of her, a woman who knows to overcome circumstances to survive Although there are still conflicting ideas about her in the works of art and on the mouth of the world, we all understand that she is just a small, weak woman in a turbulent life Amidst the intriguing complexities of politics that were only for men, a weak woman had to fight the whole country in a storm But she did not “let the life to push” but had to rely on the time to take bold, timely decisions to survive and make history With the feudal moral conception, she may not be a middle-class monk, but with country rules, she is really a good citizen, acted in time to avoid giving the country a threat of killing To this day, Duong Van Nga is still a unique phenomenon of history Around her life there are doubts that need to be clarified, including those that have not been deciphered These doubts will be a suggestion for us to continue to this topic in the future Duong Van Nga is not only a historical figure in the past, but her issues are also topical While the country still has to deal with individual-community relationships, phenomenon like her also exists in our society Although there are still twoway public opinions, but with smart and wise choices to not change the current history, we think she deserves to be honored as a celebrity of Vietnamese land ... Jourrnal of Science and Technology, Danang University, (123) Hoang Thi Hong Tham (2018), Dương Vân Nga – two opposite opinions from the public” Journal of Science, Ho Chi Minh city University... story (1990) - Hoai Anh, Historical celebrity - Duong Van Nga, queen of two dynasties (1996) - Hoang Cong Khanh, The poem of violet wipe purple (2000) - Ngo Van Phu, Duong Van Nga - immature and... historical documents and legends about Duong Van Nga' s character - Chapter 3: Duong Van Nga' s character through the legend of the author - Chapter 4: Duong Van Nga' s character in contemporary cultural