Lê Văn Hưu

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Lê Văn Hưu
黎文休
Born1230
Phủ Lý, Hà Nam, Annam
Died1322
Thanglong, Annam
OccupationRoyal historian
LanguageVietnamese, chữ Hán
PeriodTrần dynasty
GenreHistoriography
Notable worksĐại Việt sử ký

Lê Văn Hưu (1230–1322) was a historian of the

Fourth Chinese domination in Vietnam, its contents, including Lê Văn Hưu's comments on various events in the history of Vietnam, were used by other Vietnamese historians as a base for their works, notably the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư by Ngô Sĩ Liên
.

History

Lê Văn Hưu was born in 1230 in Phủ Lý village, Hà Nam now Phủ Lý District, Hà Nam.[1][2] In February 1247 he ranked second in the Imperial examination organized under the reign of Trần Thái Tông and thus received the title bảng nhãn (榜眼, eyes positioned alongside).[2][3] After the examination, he was appointed an official of the royal court of the Trần dynasty and was gradually promoted to Hàn Lâm viện học sĩ (翰林院學士, Member of the Hanlin Academy) and Quốc sử viện giám tu (Supervisor of the royal bureau for historical records) during the reign of Trần Thánh Tông.[1][4] Lê Văn Hưu was also the teacher of the Prince Chiêu Minh Trần Quang Khải, the younger brother of Trần Thánh Tông.[5]

Lê Văn Hưu began to compile the official historical text of the Trần dynasty named

Triệu Đà, the first king of the Triệu dynasty, to Lý Chiêu Hoàng which was the empress regnant and the last ruler of the Lý dynasty. After the Đại Việt sử ký was finished, Lê Văn Hưu offered the book to the Emperor Trần Thánh Tông in January 1272 and was praised by Thánh Tông for its quality.[4][7][8] Lê Tắc in his An Nam chí lược suggested that the Đại Việt sử ký was compiled by Lê Văn Hưu in revising the book Việt chí (越志, Records of Việt) which was written by Trần Phổ under the order of Trần Thái Tông.[5][9]

According to

Từ điển bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam, Lê Văn Hưu died in 1322 at the age of 92.[1]

Works

See also: Đại Việt sử ký

Lê Văn Hưu's Đại Việt sử ký is considered the first comprehensive historical record of the

Fourth Chinese domination, many valuable books of Đại Việt were taken aways by the Ming dynasty including the Đại Việt sử ký, hence the book was subsequently lost and they could not find out anymore the original version of the Đại Việt sử ký.[9][11][12][13] However, the contents of the Đại Việt sử ký and Lê Văn Hưu's comments on various historical events was collected by Phan Phu Tiên and later Ngô Sĩ Liên in their works, notably the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư by Ngô Sĩ Liên.[1]

From his remarks recorded in the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, Lê Văn Hưu proved to focus his work on Đại Việt's independence from and equality with its northern neighbour

Trưng Sisters against the Han dynasty which he evaluated a symbol of the fight for independence in Vietnam.[17][18] Therefore, Lê Văn Hưu was considered an essential scholar in affirming an autonomous identity for Vietnam.[19][20]

References

Notes

  1. ^
    Từ điển Bách khoa toàn thư Việt Nam (in Vietnamese). Archived from the original
    on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2009-12-18.
  2. ^ a b National Bureau for Historical Record 1998, p. 203
  3. ^ Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993, p. 168
  4. ^ a b Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993, p. 181
  5. ^ a b Lê Tắc (1961). An Nam chí lược (in Vietnamese). University of Hue. p. 122.
  6. ^ a b Trần Trọng Kim 1971, p. 52
  7. ^ National Bureau for Historical Record 1998, p. 219
  8. ^ Chapuis 1995, p. 82
  9. ^ a b Taylor 1991, p. 351
  10. ^ Trần Trọng Kim 1971, p. 10
  11. ^ Trần Trọng Kim 1971, p. 82
  12. ^ National Bureau for Historical Record 1998, p. 356
  13. ISBN 0-674-93721-X
    .
  14. ^ Tuyet Nhung Tran, Anthony J. S. Reid 2006, pp. 48–49
  15. ^ Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993, p. 54
  16. ^ Tuyet Nhung Tran, Anthony J. S. Reid 2006, pp. 50
  17. ^ Ngô Sĩ Liên 1993, p. 21
  18. ^ Tuyet Nhung Tran, Anthony J. S. Reid 2006, pp. 51
  19. ^ Womack 2006, p. 119
  20. ^ Patricia M. Pelley Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past 2002 Page 29 "Instead of insisting on a rupture with the dynastic past, they reinterpreted Lê Văn Hưu and Ngô Sĩ Liên as ancestors to be revered ... To celebrate seven hundred years of historiographical tradition, to honor Lê Văn Hưu as the first historian of "

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