Lạc Long Quân
Dragon Lord of Lạc
貉龍君
Lạc Long Quân — son of Kinh Dương Vương and Long Nữ of Động Đình Lake — is the mythological ruler who taught his people to farm, slew three ...
№ 03 — Treasury
Entry index
All 16 deities, heroes, demons and tales from Vietnamese mythology.
Sự tích bánh chưng bánh giầy
The Tale of the Steamed Cake
蒸餅傳
Chưng Bính Truyện (蒸餅傳, "The Tale of the Steamed Cake") is the eighth tale in juan I of Lĩnh Nam Chích Quái. It explains how bánh chưng and ...
Lang Liêu
Prince Lang Lieu
郎僚
Lang Liêu is the eighteenth son of the sixth Hùng king — the one prince among twenty-two who had nothing to offer except rice and his own ha...
Âu Cơ
Âu Cơ — The Mountain Fairy, Mother of the Hundred Việt
甌姬 / 嫗姬
Âu Cơ is a mountain fairy, wife of Lạc Long Quân. She gave birth to a sac of eggs, which hatched into a hundred sons. The couple divided the...
Chử Đồng Tử
Chử Đồng Tử — The Saint of Love, Patron of Merchants
褚童子
Chử Đồng Tử started with nothing — so poor he gave his father the only loincloth they owned for burial shrouds, then lived naked on the Red ...
Hồ Tinh
Nine-Tailed Fox Demon
狐精
A nine-tailed white fox lived for over a thousand years in a small stone cave west of Thăng Long. It shapeshifted endlessly, disguising itse...
Mai An Tiêm
Mai An Tiêm — The Watermelon Exile
買安添 (variant: 買安瞻)
Mai An Tiêm is a legendary figure from the Hùng Vương era, protagonist of the Tây Qua truyện (Tale of the Western Melon) in the Lĩnh Nam Chí...
Sự tích dưa hấu
The Origin of the Watermelon
西瓜傳
Tây Qua truyện (Tale of the Western Melon) is story no. 8/9 in the Lĩnh Nam Chích Quái, recounting how Mai An Tiêm — a foreign-born slave at...
Thánh Gióng
Thánh Gióng — The Divine Child of Phù Đổng
聖董 / 扶董天王
Thánh Gióng is not a historical figure but a layered symbol built up over more than a millennium: from nature deity of trees and stones → go...
Lý Ông Trọng (Lý Thân)
Lý Ông Trọng — The Giant of Giao Chỉ
李翁仲
Lý Ông Trọng (李翁仲), also known as Lý Thân or the Holy One of Chèm, is a legendary figure from Từ Liêm district, Giao Chỉ, placed in the era ...
Nhất Dạ Trạch
Nhất Dạ Trạch — The Overnight Lake
一夜澤
Nhất Dạ Trạch — The Overnight Lake — exists in both myth and history. In myth, it is where the palace of Chử Đồng Tử and Tiên Dung appeared,...
Tiên Dung
Tiên Dung — The Princess Who Chose Her Own Way
僊容 / 仙容
Tiên Dung was a Hùng Vương princess famous for refusing every match her father arranged. On a pleasure trip down the Red River, she accident...
Bạch Trĩ truyện (Truyện chim trĩ trắng)
Bạch Trĩ Truyện — The Tale of the White Pheasant
白雉傳
Bạch Trĩ truyện (The Tale of the White Pheasant) is story no. 10 in the Lĩnh Nam Chích Quái. In fewer than 200 characters of classical Chine...
Ngư Tinh
Fish Demon
魚精
A sea monster of the Eastern Sea, over fifty trượng long, with a fish-snake body and many legs like a centipede, capable of shapeshifting. I...
Việt Tỉnh truyện (Truyện Giếng Việt)
Việt Tỉnh Truyện — The Tale of the Vietnamese Well
越井傳
Việt Tỉnh truyện (The Tale of the Vietnamese Well) is tale 12 of 22 in the Lĩnh Nam Chích Quái. Set from the 3rd Hùng Vương reign through th...
Mộc Tinh
Tree Demon
木精
A thousand-year-old chiên đàn tree in Phong Châu, taller than a thousand arm-spans, its canopy spreading over several thousand leagues. It w...