Uk Chai - Uk Chai

…After the death of Emperor Taizu, he retired from his official position, but was executed on suspicion of assassinating the second emperor, Taizong. A representative poet and writer of the early Le Dynasty, he wrote the name Uc Trai (评语), and left behind six volumes of the Uc Trai Collection, including the Uc Trai Poems, the Military Writings, a collection of writings he had drafted during the resistance war, the Ping Ngu Da Hua, which proclaimed to the world the defeat of the Ming army, and the Island Di Zhi, Vietnam's first geography book. He has also been thought to be the author of the long poem Family Instructions, which is said to be the oldest source of the ethnic Chu Nom script, but there are also theories that doubt this. …

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…太祖没後は官を辞して隠棲したが，2代皇帝太宗謀殺の疑いをかけられて処刑された。レ朝初期の代表的詩文家でウク･チャイ(抑斎)と号し，《ウク･チャイ詩集》のほか，抵抗戦争の間に起草した文章を集めた《軍中詞命集》や明軍撃退を天下に布告した〈平呉大誥〉，ベトナム最初の地理書となった《嶼地志》を収めた《ウク･チャイ集》6巻を残した。民族文字チュノムの最も古い資料とされる長編詩《家訓歌》の作者とも考えられてきたが，真偽を疑う説もある。…

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