''Jin Yun Qiao'' or ''Chin Yun Ch'iao'' (金雲翹 or 金雲翹傳, ''The Tale of Jin, Yun and Qiao'' or ''The Tale of Chin, Yun, and Ch'iao'') is a seventeenth-century Chinese novel by an unknown writer under the

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Qingxin Cairen (青心才人, ''Pure Heart Talented Man''). The literary Chinese tale is widely popular in Vietnam where it was known as "Kim Vân Kiều," and then became the original source on which the vernacular Vietnamese epic poem ''

The Tale of Kieu ''The Tale of Kiều'' is an epic poem in Vietnamese written by Nguyễn Du (1765–1820), well known in Vietnamese literature. The original title in Vietnamese is ''Đoạn Trường Tân Thanh'' (, "A New Cry From a Broken Heart"), but it ...

'' is based.Du Nguyễn, Sanh Thông Huỳnh ''The tale of Kieu'' 1973 Page 5 "But to millions of Vietnamese, it is known as Truyen Kieu (The Tale of Kieu), or simply as Kieu. ... Some early French writers seized upon this fact to dismiss the poem as a mere translation from the Chinese, ... Ming novel entitled Chin Yiin Ch'iao Chuan (The Tale of Chin, Yiin, and Ch'iao) by a writer who lived in the sixteenth century and called himself the Pure-Hearted Man of Parts (Ch'ing-hsin Ts'ai-jen)."

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