"Kasenden" - Kasenden

…At the same time, the traditional culture of the people was respected in the trend of the rise of literati, and the style of oral poetry was adopted and long poems written in Chu Nom in six- and eight-syllable style developed rapidly. This long poem, the early representative work of which is Nguyen Huy Tu's "The Story of the Flower Print," appeared in large numbers in the early Nguyen dynasty, ranging from a few hundred lines to over 3,000 lines including more than 800 stanzas, and was highly praised by readers. The main works were verse translations of popular Chinese novels, and reading Chu Nom required extensive knowledge of Chinese characters, so it was not widely popular among the people as national literature from the beginning. …

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…同時に民衆的伝統文化が文人の台頭する時流の中で尊重され，口承詩の詩体を採用しチュノムで書かれた六八体長編詩が急速に発展した。グエン･フイ･トゥ(阮輝似)の《花箋伝》を初期の代表作とするこの長編詩は，グエン朝初期にかけて数百行から800以上のスタンザを含む三千数百行に及ぶ作品が数多く出現し，読書人にもてはやされた。主要作品が中国の通俗小説の韻文訳で，チュノムの読解に該博な漢字の知識を必要としたため，当初から国民文学として広く民衆に普及したわけではなかった。…

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