''Trinh thử'' (, "The Virgin Mouse") by ''Hồ Huyền Quy'' is a 15th-century

Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...

ese Nôm poem in 850 lines in

lục bát Lục bát (, ) is a traditional Vietnamese verse form – historically first recorded in Chữ Nôm script. "Lục bát" is Sino-Vietnamese for "six-eight", referring to the alternating lines of six and eight syllables. It will always begin with ...

verse.Vák: a review of literature & the arts - Numéros 1 à 3 - Page 52 1958 "It was in about the fifteenth century that Vietnamese literature began actually to disengage itself from the Chinese manner. A sort of literary self-assertion can be detected in Ho-huyen-Qui's Truyen Trinh Thu (or The Virgin Mouse)."

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