Nguyễn Thuyên

Nguyễn Thuyên
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese Nguyễn Thuyên
Hán-Nôm 阮詮

Nguyễn Thuyên or Hàn Thuyên (dates of birth and death unknown) was a 13th-century Vietnamese official and writer. According to Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, in 1282, he composed a piece of writing, throwing it into the Red River to chase away a crocodile, similar to what the Tang Dynasty official and writer Han Yu once did. As a result, Emperor Trần Nhân Tông gave him the surname Hàn. He is known as the first one to compose Vietnamese poems in chữ Nôm, although his works did not survive. Following the Chinese model, he divided the six tones of Vietnamese into "flat" (平) and "sharp" (仄), and used this distinction as the metrical foundation of his poems. The poets after him followed this practice.

Alternate name
Vietnamese alphabet Hàn Thuyên
Hán-Nôm 韓詮

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