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 11 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...