Đoàn Thị Điểm ( vi-hantu, 段氏點, 1705 - 1748),
courtesy name
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Thụy Châu (瑞珠),
pseudonym
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Mai Khuê (梅閨) or Rosy Clouds Lady (紅霞女士), was the classical-Vietnamese female
poet
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.
Biography
Đoàn Thị Điểm was born in 1705 at
Giai Phạm village,
Văn Giang district,
Kinh Bắc local government (now
Yên Mỹ District,
Hưng Yên province). She is best known for her biography of the goddess
Liễu Hạnh
Princess Liễu Hạnh ( vi, Liễu Hạnh Công chúa, chữ Hán: 柳杏公主) is one of The Four Immortals in Vietnamese folk religion, and also a leading figure in the mother goddess cult Đạo Mẫu, in which she governs the celestial re ...
and her version of
Đặng Trần Côn's poem ''
Lament of a soldier's wife'' from
Han into vernacular
Nôm. The ''Lament'' is an example of ''
double seven, six eight'' form.
[Patricia M. Pelley ''Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past'' 2002 - Page 125 "One of the most celebrated poets was Nguyễn Trãi, whose famous victory poem, poems addressed to military personnel, poems in classical Chinese, and, most critically, his poems in nom were granted a place of special honor in the literary canon. The poet Đoàn Thị Điểm was also greatly esteemed for "Lament of a Soldier's Wife", a poem she wrote in classical Chinese. The considerable merit bestowed on Lê Quý Đôn stemmed from the astuteness of his work overall and his phenomenal productivity: he authored at least three chronicles, several volumes of poetry, two encyclopedic compilations, and.."] She was also believed to have posthumously written Nữ Trung Tùng Phận (''Duties of Women''), a
Caodaist
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moral poem targeting women, in 1933
Family
* Đoàn Doãn Nghi (1678 - 1729) : Father
* Đoàn Doãn Luân (1700 - 1735) : Older brother.
* Nguyễn Kiều (1695 - 1752) : Husband (m. 1742-1748, her death).
See also
*
Cai Yan
*
Shin Saimdang
*
Heo Chohui
References
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1705 births
1748 deaths
People from Hưng Yên Province
People of Revival Lê dynasty
18th-century Vietnamese poets
Vietnamese ladies-in-waiting
18th-century Vietnamese women
Lê dynasty poets