Tale and Mythology

Hello Dear Readers, My name is Hung Nguyen, and I am the proud owner of the blog  Vietnamese Fairy Tales . First and foremost, I would like to extend my heartfelt gratitude to all my readers who have followed and supported me throughout the years. Your passion for Vietnamese culture, particularly Vietnamese fairy tales, has been a tremendous source of inspiration. In my journey to share the rich and enchanting world of Vietnamese folklore, I have carefully curated and published three remarkable books that I believe will captivate your imagination and enrich your understanding of our cultural heritage. These books have been designed to reach a broader audience, and they are now available in ebook format on Kobo and Apple Books. 1. Complete Collection of Vietnamese Fairy Tales - A Treasury of Legends and Folklore ($15) Dive into the magical world of Vietnamese fairy tales with this comprehensive collection. This book includes a vast array of stories that have been passed down th...

Tam and Cam So dua - Coconut boy My Chau and Trong Thuy One hundred-knot bamboo tree Tale of Ngu hanh mountain Tale of monkey Tale of Catfish Tale of crab Why the “Tachypleus Tridentatus” always live with another Crow and Peacock Tale of God of Kidchen Tale of Ba Be lake Tale of Geckos Toad is uncle of heaven's king Thach Sanh and Ly Thong Giong Clever boy Great doctor Tale of  watermelon Duke and river-god Tale of betel, areca and limestone Chung cake, Day cake Tale of Tu hu bird Tale of Dracaena Tale of Coot Tale of Cay neu Tale of partridge Tale of frog Tale of mosquito Tale of broom Tale of lime-jar Tale of waiting-husband stone Nhat Da swamp and Tu Nhien dump Cao Bien Fat cow or bony cow Muc swamp Loi citadel Thu Huon Truong Ba's soul inside butcher's body Son's born before father

Once upon a time, at Lai trieu, Son nam had a foreign trader who had lived at Daiviet for many years. Because of his business secrets buying at harvest season and selling at planting season, lending money to get high interest after many years he had gotten large amount of property. None could count how much gold and silver in his house even nobles couldn’t compare with him about wealth. Then he thought about bringing his money to his country for his offspring but the country that time forbidden all people to bring any assets out from the country. Many people had ignored the rule but they couldn’t get pass the customs and course they were taken the assets and expelled. Because of that the foreign trader decided to hide his assets in the country then his offspring would come to and take the assets when the rule was canceled. He planned carefully. He requested people in the village to build a temple on the wild hill near his house. Because the people respected Buddha so they immedia...

Long time ago when the country was reigned by Thanh Tong Le in Thang long (the old name of Ha noi) lived a great thief whatever he wanted he could find the way to get it. He used to make mandarins and landlord afraid. Mandarins and landlord had gone to catch him but they couldn’t touch to him he appeared and also disappeared as a wind. So, people called him Quan “gio” with “gio” was his nickname it meant wind. One day which was near Tet holiday the king pretended as a poor student traveled to have sight about people’s lives. He came and knocked on Quan gio’s door in accidental. The king show him his proverty and said pitifully: “I teach children in Dong xuan and have saved some money to bring to home to manage this Tet holiday. Unfortunately”, he creamed, “when I was on my way my money was stolen by theifs. Now I had no way to go. Please, let me stay in here for a night, dear you.” Quan gio gave him sympathy. He said: “I will help you some money.” The king observed his shabb...

Long time ago, when Vietnam was managed by recent king whose family name was Trần the country had a venerated teacher with extensive knowledge his name was Chu An. Therefore, so many people came to be his students. The recent king also heard about good things of him so he invited him to come the castle, supervised Quoc Tu Giam which was the only one school in Vietnam that time and taught prince directly. After one year, people saw him came back home. “I couldn’t stay at there and see 7 bad courtiers say lies to the king”, he said. Then he continued teaching at home. People came to study more crowdedly than before that he had to build 4 shacks for them sitting. Hearing his fame two sons of dragon king, a god, who was king of seas and responsible for rain-making also came to study. Everyday, they swam to riverside in dragon form and transformed into human form when they landed on ground. They acted, spoke, and moved like human. Therefore, none had realized who they were for ...

That time Viet Nam was dominated. Their enemies treated them like trash. Mean time, in Lam Sơn, Thanh Hoa people had grouped to fight but they were too weak. Therefore, they had to separate every time whenever they attacked with their enemies. King of dragon, the master of seas, wanted to help them so he decided to let them borrow his sword. Le Thuan who lived in Thanh Hoa that time worked as a fisher. A night when he went fishing as he had done every night he met a strange thing. The first time when he dropped his fishing net down the water and pulled it up he was so happy because he felt it so heavy. He thought that he had caught a big fishes but when he had pulled up the fishing net he realized the thing in his fishing net was only an iron bar. Disappointed he threw the iron bar down the sea, went to other place and dropped his fishing net one more time. That time as the time before his fishing net was so heavy and when he had pulled up...

Tam and Cam So dua - Coconut boy My Chau and Trong Thuy One hundred-knot bamboo tree Tale of Ngu hanh mountain Tale of monkey Tale of Catfish Tale of crab Why the “Tachypleus Tridentatus” always live with another Crow and Peacock Tale of God of Kidchen Tale of Ba Be lake Tale of Geckos Toad is uncle of heaven's king Thach Sanh and Ly Thong Giong Clever boy Great doctor Tale of  watermelon Duke and river-god Tale of betel, areca and limestone Chung cake, Day cake Tale of Tu hu bird Tale of Dracaena Tale of Coot Tale of Cay neu Tale of partridge Tale of frog Tale of mosquito Tale of broom Tale of lime-jar Tale of waiting-husband stone Nhat Da swamp and Tu Nhien dump Cao Bien  Fat cow or bony cow Mực swamp Loi citadel Thu Huon Truong Ba's soul inside butcher's body Giap and At  Not yet been a mandarin, daring to threaten others Thien and Dia Chom king Wise wife, stupid husband Van Lich coin ...

Once upon a time, a boy named Chu Sinh lived in Hung Hoa. He lost parent when he was child and was taken care of by his uncle. As much as his uncle treated him well, his aunt, on other side, treated him as much as badder. His aunt really hated him that she was angry as she had to served a nephew, a student, food and drinks while he did nothing but studying that was useless with her in reality. Therefore, whenever she had chance to going cross him, she was always giving him venomous words. But, the boy knew exactly his position in the house and chose not to reply. Day by day, the aunt seemed not to have more sympathy with him she scolded him all day. One day, his uncle went out and his aunt seemed had her chance scolding him as much as she could and the boy that time couldn’t keep silent anymore he replied few word. But, that seemed to be a reason for his aunt turned angry. She shouted: “Go away -- if that is what you want and remember – don’t come back here”. It seemed that nothing...

Once upon a time, that had a starling which could speak and understand what people said. He lived with a poor famer. The first time they met was a day as he, the famer, went to plow and saw the starling who was injured and hid himself in plants. The famer brought the starling to his house to cure. The famer taught him to speak and let him known every thing he knew. The famer treated him very well. He said: “I have no child so I want you to become my son”. Because of that the famer had never caged the starling, he let him have free but the starling had never left. That had a landlord who lived near their house. He was very rich that he sometime brought his golden bars out to bask. One day, the starling flew cross the landlord’s house he saw and immediately realized the golden bars were valuable things. He flew down and brought some bars away. He gave the golden bars to his father. From that time the famer had an easier life. The landlord discovered that he lost some golden bars ...

Once upon a time, in a village lived a family, a father, a mom and two children, one son and one daughter. The son, House, is older than the daughter, Rice. He’s five years old and his sister’s three years old. When House was born, his father said to his mother that they had worked very hard but even a poor house they also didn’t have. Therefore, they named their son House with hoping that their son would have a house when he grow up. When the daughter was born, one more time the husband turned to his wife with tears drops on his face. “We have nothing to eat”, he said. Then, because of that they named their daughter Rice. Honestly, if I have to say, they were hard working people. The husband and his wife worked in their farm whole daytime and when the night came, he worked as a hunter. But, all of these things didn’t help them to have a house, have enough food to eat. Because, Lord ruled the area was greed and venomous person he had no heart. All most rice they got, they had ...

Once upon a time, in a village nearby forest where a little girl living with her family, father, mother and sister. Though she was only little girl, she had a big heart. She was very kind loving everyone. Even three stone statues of Kitchen God she also spent them her kindness. The stone statues were set in kitchen next to fireplace and always were heated by fire that made her felt pity. One day, that was the hottest day in summer, she that time was a five-year-old girl taking a jug of water and poured on the statues. Steam rose and the God of kitchen appeared. “Oh my little girl! I know you love me and don’t want I am heated. Yes, I know but the more I am heated the more I feel satisfied”, said the God of kitchen. Since that time she hadn't poured water on the statues but God of kitchen sometime appeared to converse with her and her old sister. “Do you like anything else but fire?”, she asked in a time they met. “Of course, I want a carp. Tet holiday is going to come and I wa...