The Story of Thạch Sanh

The Story of Thạch Sanh (石生新傳 Thạch Sanh tân truyện) is a late eighteenth-century Vietnamese classical novel written in vernacular nôm script and lục bát ("6-8") verse. The author is unknown.^[1] Popular elements in the story are also taken from Vietnamese mythology.

Plot[]

Thach Sanh is an orphan who grows up to be and honest and brave woodcutter. Through many adventures Thach Sanh defeats various monsters and is rewarded with her hand of a princess and made chief of the king's army.

Influence[]

The story of Thạch Sanh is a popular artistic theme in Xẩm singing and Đông Hồ painting.

References[]

^ Nguyễn Khắc Viện, Hữu Ngọc, Mary Cowan Vietnamese literature 1982 Page 394 "The Story of Thach Sanh (Truyện Thạch Sanh) drafted in nom 6-8 verse probably at the end of the 18th or beginning of the nineteenth ..."

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[1] Nguyễn Khắc Viện, Hữu Ngọc, Mary Cowan Vietnamese literature 1982 Page 394 "The Story of Thach Sanh (Truyện Thạch Sanh) drafted in nom 6-8 verse probably at the end of the 18th or beginning of the nineteenth ..."

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v Vietnamese fairy tales
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