Heroines in Vietnam history

The history of the Vietnamese people is the history of the struggle to build and defend the country. During those thousands of years of heroic history, Vietnamese women have always played a particularly important role, thereby contributing greatly to the cause of building and protecting an independent and prosperous country. They are resilient and indomitable soldiers fighting against foreign invaders. They are diligent, intelligent and creative workers. They are the ones who give birth to generations of heroes of a heroic nation. They are the ones who create and preserve the cultural identity of the Vietnamese people.

The history of the Vietnamese nation will always be marked by the brilliant and indomitable female heroes who did not accept a life of slavery and heroically stood up to fight foreign invaders and regained independence and freedom.

Hai Ba Trung. 

This title is given to the two sisters Trung Trac and Trung Nhi, two heroic women who courageously launched and led the people to revolt, rose up to smash the colonial government of the Eastern Han Dynasty, proclaimed themselves kings and queens. established independence and self-reliance within three years after more than 200 years of being under the yoke of northern feudal dynasties. The two ladies founded a new dynasty. Trung Trac took the title Trung Vuong. The two ladies lit the fire against foreign invaders of the Vietnamese people. The country’s autonomy brought about by the Two Ladies was short-lived (from the years 40 to 43), but they portrayed in the history and consciousness of the Vietnamese people an example of loyalty and heroism that brought glory to women and nation.

Ba Trieu.

When the Ngo dynasty invaded the country, causing pain and suffering for the people, around 19 years old, Trieu Thi Trinh left home and went to the mountains to build a base and recruit insurgents to fight the enemy. When her brother sent a message to her husband’s house, she replied clearly showing her mettle, “I want to ride the strong wind, ride the fierce waves, kill whales in the East Sea, drive away the Wu army, regain the country, slavery, but I refuse to stoop to being someone else’s concubine.” Currently, her mausoleum and temple still remain forever in Hau Loc district, Thanh Hoa province, an important national historical relic, and evidence of the pride of a heroic woman of the Vietnamese people.

Queen of Nom poetry (Vietnamese poet Ho Xuan Huong (late 18th – early 19th).

With many works of Nom poetry, poet Ho Xuan Huong was voted the Lady of Nom Poetry in Vietnamese literature. The inner world in women’s poetry originates from the fate of women: loneliness and tragedy, unsatisfied desires, ironic situations, even bitterness. Ho Xuan Huong is a poet full of personality, strongly asserting her “I” and at the same time daring to reveal her own situation and behavior. Ho Xuan Huong’s poetry is a thunderclap in the sky of the decaying feudal regime, a voice to advocate for all levels of suffering women. For that reason, Ho Xuan Huong is known as the Queen of Vietnamese Nom Poetry with many miracles and legends.

Nguyen Thi Binh. 

She is one of the leaders of the Saigon – Cho Lon Women’s National Salvation movement. She participated in leading student movements and women’s movements; the intellectuals’ movement to protect peace. She was arrested and imprisoned at Chi Hoa prison from 1951 to 1953, then, she was Vice President of the Women’s Union for the Liberation of South Vietnam (1966). Also, she became the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of the Republic of South Vietnam, Head of the negotiating delegation at the Paris International Conference about Vietnam, is one of the four signatories of the Paris Agreement on Vietnam in 1973, Minister of Education of the Government of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam 1976-1987. Since 1992, she has been Vice President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.

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