Đại Nam thực lục
Official records kept by the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam, spanning 1844 to 1909 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Đại Nam thực lục (chữ Hán: 大南寔錄, lit. "Veritable Records of the Great South", "Annals of Đại Nam", "Chronicle of Greater Vietnam") was the official history of Nguyễn dynasty, Vietnam. It contained the royal records of the Nguyễn lords, and the imperial annals of Nguyễn dynasty emperors up until Khải Định, covering the period in Vietnamese history between 1545 to 1909. Just like other official histories, Đại Nam thực lục was written in Classical Chinese. The annals comprised 584 volumes.[1]
Author | Quốc sử quán of Nguyễn dynasty |
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Original title | 大南寔錄 |
Country | Đại Nam |
Language | Classical Chinese |
Subject | History of Vietnam |
Genre | Historiography |
Publisher | Nguyễn dynasty |
Publication date | 1844–1909 |
At first the records were called "Đại Nam thật lục" "大南實錄". During Thiệu Trị's reign however, "實" was changed to "寔",[2] and its pronunciation changed to "thực",[3] because "實" was against the naming taboo of Empress Tá Thiên, Thiệu Trị's mother.
Đại Nam thực lục was the most important primary source regarding the Nguyễn dynasty. It was an important reference of Cao Xuân Dục's Quốc triều chính biên toát yếu and Trần Trọng Kim's Việt Nam sử lược.