13 Facts About Nguyen Trai

Nguyen Trai, pen name Uc Trai ; was an illustrious Vietnamese Confucian scholar, a noted poet, a skilled politician and a master strategist.

Nguyen Trai was at times attributed with being capable of almost miraculous or mythical deeds in his designated capacity as a principal advisor of Le Loi, who fought against the Ming dynasty.

Nguyen Trai is credited with writing the important political statements of Le Loi and inspiring the Vietnamese populace to support open rebellion against the Ming Dynasty rulers.

Nguyen Trai is the author of "Great Proclamation upon the Pacification of the Wu" .

Nguyen Trai originally was from Hai Duong Province, he was born in 1380 in Thang Long, the capital of the declining Tran Dynasty.

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In 1417, Nguyen Trai joined a rebel leader named Le Loi, who was resisting the occupation from a mountainous region in Thanh Hoa Province south of Hanoi.

Nguyen Trai served as the chief advisor, strategist and propagandist for the movement.

At some point during the regency of Le Sat, having found life at court increasingly difficult, Nguyen Trai retired to his country home north of Hanoi in the tranquil mountains of Chi Linh, where he enjoyed poetry writing and meditation.

Nguyen Trai's death resulted from a scandal involving the young emperor, Le Thai Tong, and the wife or concubine of Nguyen Trai, named Nguyen Thi Lo.

Twenty years later, Le Thai Tong's son, emperor Le Thanh Tong officially pardoned Nguyen Trai, saying that he was wholly innocent in the death of Thanh Tong's father.

Nguyen Trai was given the posthumous noble title the Count of Tan Tru.

Nguyen Trai's poems, written in both ancient Chinese and Vietnamese, were highly regarded by notable philosophers, poets, and politicians in Vietnamese history.

An example of Nguyen Trai's writing is his poem To a Friend, as translated and edited by Nguyen Ðo and Paul Hoover:.