The Chinh phụ ngâm ("Lament of the soldier's wife", 征婦吟) is a poem in Classical Chinese written by the Vietnamese author Đặng Trần Côn (1710–1745).Laurence C. Thompson. A Vietnamese Reference Grammar. Page 73. 1987. "An adopted child, for example, typically adds the family name of his new family to his own surname (the new name preceding): Dang Tran Con, a famous eighteenth-century author, was the adopted son of a family named Dang; his original ..." It is also called the Chinh phụ ngâm khúc (征婦吟曲), with the additional -khúc ("tune", 曲) emphasizing that it can be performed as a musical piece not just read as a plain "lament" (ngâm, 吟).
The Chinese-language poem was translated into vernacular chữ Nôm by several translators including Phan Huy Ích and Đoàn Thị Điểm.Patricia M. Pelley. Postcolonial Vietnam: New Histories of the National Past. Page 268. 2002. "The celebrated works of Nguyễn Trãi include Bình Ngô đại cáo, Quân trung từ mệnh tập, Ức Trai thi tập, and Quốc âm thi tập. The Vietnamese title for the poem written by Đoàn Thị Điểm is Chinh phụ ngâm.David G. Marr. Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920–1945. Page 195. 1984. "Dang Tran Con, in his eighteenth-century Chinh Phu Ngam [Lament of a Soldier's Wife], criticized the endless warfare of the period, yet also idealized the women who stayed home faithfully to pine for their husbands and attend to the..." It was also translated into Japanese, English,Chinh phụ ngâm – The Song of a Soldier's Wife in English by Huỳnh Sanh Thông FrenchChinh phụ ngâm – Femme de guerrier in French and Korean languages. Xuất bản Chinh phụ ngâm bằng tiếng Hàn by Be Yang Xu The first eight lines of the poem along with the music composed by Professor Võ Văn Lúa were adopted as the national anthem of the Autonomous Republic of Cochinchina from 1946 to 1949.
+Classical Chinese + Sino-VietnameseVietnamese (Nôm + alphabet)
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External links Chinh phụ ngâm – Lament Song of a Soldier's Wife – annotated, side-by-side translation by Vương Thanh