Research on the real author of Ngu che bac tuan thi tap and the value of the Ngu che bac tuan poem collection

Abstract

Researching literature documents and determining the complete ones and the author of the text are the important task of Han Nom studies. When the author and the best text are clearly known, that document values highly. This paper is not beyond our purposes. The issue of the texts of Ngu Che Bac Tuan thi tap has only been up to now made statistics in “the Nguyen Dynasty woodblocks – Section overview”. However, this book argues that this was a work composed by King Minh Menh. Through researching and comparing with official history and other Ngu Che’s texts of King Thieu Tri, there comes the conclusion that it was written by Thieu Tri.