Top 10 Analysis of My Chau and Trong Thuy characters in “An Duong Vuong and My Chau – Trong Thuy”

In each legendary story, it shows the period of building and defending our country from the past to the present. In particular, the legend “An Duong Vuong, My Chau, Trong Thuy” is an extremely typical work, leaving many deep impressions in the hearts of readers.

After reading the story, the reader can’t help thinking about the character of Mi Chau, a beautiful, but a bit naive and naive girl who has to become an ancient sinner, and die in pain. . Mi Chau is the lovely daughter of King An Duong Vuong, she is famous for being a beautiful, pure, innocent, dignified and virtuous girl who has nothing to criticize. But it was Trong Thuy’s malicious conspiracy that caused her to fall into a state of being unable to fully resolve between filial piety and love, and Mi Chau became a treacherous criminal who sold the country to harm the people “carrying snakes and biting domestic chickens”. The people mourned, the king lost his country.

Through legend, we can see that Mi Chau is a rebellious person, a son who can’t think of the whole. A naive and gullible wife trusts her husband too much and then gets cheated and betrayed, she herself also receives pitiful consequences.

But broadly speaking, we can’t blame Me Chau, because the marriage of My Chau and Trong Thuy was decided by the king’s father on both sides. Mi Chau is just a weak girl who can’t decide her own fate, where her parents put her child. Then, when she became Trong Thuy’s wife, Mi Chau could not have expected that her husband would be a wild animal, plotting to rob her country and torment her father.

Mi Chau was re-examined the ancient crime of Au Lac when she herself had sold the country twice. The first time when she led Trong Thuy to the place where the magic crossbow was hidden, she told Trong Thuy about the miracle of the crossbow. The second time, it was when she listened to Trong Thuy’s orders to wear a goose feather coat when the two countries were fighting, causing the invading country’s soldiers to follow and kill her father in order to “kill the grass at the root”. Mi Chau harmed her own biological father because of her stupidity to the point of stupidity.

So when Trong Thuy asked about the national secret, because she was too in love, she blindly thought only of her own feelings and showed Trong Thuy that the secret of that country was the magic crossbow. It was her innocence. Mei Chau created the tragedy of the whole history, but she was just a pitiful and angry girl.

Because she wanted to please her husband, she took a magic crossbow to show her husband, Mi Chau was so naive and naive in love. She could not have foreseen the unpredictable tricks of the person she always trusted. There’s a big conspiracy behind the heartless man she still thinks is her husband. Women in the past only listened to their parents, then when they grew up, they listened to their husbands and their lives did not have the right to decide, so the fact that My Chau obeyed her husband was a moral that the feudal society taught. for her.

After all, what Mi Chau does is a thought of an ordinary girl, a dignified and virtuous daughter usually has, a woman’s life often depends on her husband. My Chau is not a scholar who understands a lot, has a strategic talent to fully understand her husband.

A gentle and pure princess, but the crimes that she did for her father to lose his country and then be chased and killed by the enemy cannot be erased in history. Therefore, in the end, Mi Chau had to pay for her sins under her father’s sword. The lesson about the character of Mi Chau is an extremely bitter lesson for the holy girl, but too naive and gullible, so she lost the country.

In the series of heroic legends about the period of nation building and defense of our nation, the legend of An Duong Vuong and Mi Chau Trong Thuy is the most favorite work. After reading the story, the reader cannot help but reflect on the life of Me Chau, a gentle, beautiful, respectful girl who suffered an unjust and sad ending like never before.

“I told the story of me in the past

The heart is in the wrong place on the head

The magic crossbow unintentionally handed over the enemy’s hand

So the fate of sinking in the deep sea”

Mi Chau is the beautiful princess of An Duong Vuong, innocent and pure. She could not solve reason and love, between filial piety and righteousness, and finally suffered an unjust death. Through the legend, readers can also think that Mi Chau is a traitor because she directly helped the enemy and sold the country to harm her father, but the truth is that Mi Chau became a criminal because she was too naive. trusting others, believing in love, but unintentionally forgetting the country, forgetting about his father. It is that blind faith that makes Me Chau directly create the tragedy of this history.

We have seen twice, because of her gullibility, Mi Chau accidentally abetted the enemy. The first time was on the night of confiding, when Trong Thuy asked to see the magic crossbow, she did not hesitate to show it to her husband, revealing the secret of the crossbow to Trong Thuy. She is both pitiful and reprehensible because she has brought secrets and the fate of the country to beautify the couple’s love, but it is pitiable that she naively loves him, and wants to comply with her husband’s will, is a woman. Women in the old society speak more clearly about that.

The second time was on the day of farewell, just because of the word love, love was blind, so Mi Chau did not have any doubts about the meaningful question, nor did she realize the conspiracy of her husband, she answered honestly that: “I have a coat of goose feathers, whenever I run away, I will sprinkle goose feathers along the way, you just follow the trail of goose feathers.” She also did not know that it was that action that led the way for the enemy.

And in the end, she is also pitiful because an innocent and carefree girl like her does not realize that heart, but always looks forward to the day her husband comes back to her, that is what she thinks when she is afraid of him. I couldn’t find it so I said so. Love has blinded people, so much so that she sits behind her, but she still keeps her promise to pluck goose feathers scattered along the way, until now, it is a mistake to still act like that. seriously unforgivable.

In the end, the people sympathized with Mi Chau. She had to atone for her sins under her father’s sword with her life. The guilt was paid, but the injustice was still there, until finally, the deceived faithful daughter said, “I am a girl’s fate. , if there is, the rebellious heart dies, it will turn to dust, but if a loyal dragon dies and is deceived, it will turn into pearls to wash away the hatred and reveal the pure heart.”

The image of pearls that Mi Nuong mentioned is no longer a symbol of pure love, but only explains her injustice. The lesson about Mi Chau is a bitter lesson because of being too gullible and thoughtless, a lesson for everyone to “put the heart on the head” as the poet To Huu has deeply “confided”. , well understand.

Mi Chau – Trong Thuy, a love affair that is perhaps the most attention-grabbing and controversial in Vietnamese legends. Because of love and filial piety, they made great mistakes that made them go down the road of death. Mi Chau died turning into a pearl, and Trong Thuy, because she loved her wife, also died in a well near the burial place of Mi Chau. The more pearls are washed, the clearer the water of this well is. This ending is both touching and contains many deep meanings.

According to legend, during Au Lac’s time, King An Duong Vuong was given a claw as a crossbow by the Golden Turtle to fight the enemy. Just shoot with a crossbow and the enemy will lose. For the first time, when the Da army came to fight, King An Duong Vuong fulfilled the magic crossbow. Indeed, the Da army lost big. Not long after, Da’s son proposed to the princess. The king did not notice, so he accidentally gave his daughter to the person he defeated. True to the previous plot, Trong Thuy coaxed My Chau to let her see the magic crossbow and then secretly made another one to replace it. During the separation, Mi Chau told Trong Thuy that if the two countries were in chaos in the future, wherever Mi Chau went, she would sprinkle goose feathers there to make a sign for Trong Thuy to find and save her. Losing the crossbow, King An Duong Vuong did not know, so when the Da army came to challenge, the king was subjective and lost Au Lac country.

The king led his daughter to run to the beach. Mi Chau sat behind her father and sprinkled goose feathers as a sign for Trong Thuy as promised. Arriving at the beach, the king called for the Thanh Giang envoy, and a golden turtle emerged to guard the enemy’s army right behind him. Immediately, the king drew his sword and killed Me Chau. Mi Chau did not understand why her father died, she made a vow: “I am a girl, if you have a rebellious heart to plot to harm your father, dying will turn to dust. If one’s loyalty is deceived, death will turn into pearls to wash away the grudge.” Mi Chau died at the beach, blood flowed into the water, clams were eaten to turn into pearls. When Trong Thuy arrived, only My Chau’s body remained. Trong Thuy hugged My Chau’s body and brought it to be buried in Loa Thanh, the body turned into jade. Trong Thuy mourned endlessly, when he went to take a bath, he thought he saw Mi Chau’s figure, so he plunged his head into the well and died.

Thus, after disastrous mistakes, both died together. In particular, when pearls are washed in the well where Trong Thuy died, the more pearls are washed, the brighter they become. There are many conflicting opinions about the death of My Chau. Some people think that: Mi Chau obeyed Trong Thuy’s words to let her see the magic crossbow just to follow the love of husband and wife but forget about obligations to the country. Another opinion said that it is natural and ethical for Me Chau to follow her husband’s will. So which opinion is right and which one is wrong? In terms of letting Trong Thuy see the magic crossbow, Mi Chau did this completely without any conspiracy, nor did she know Trong Thuy’s intention to steal the magic crossbow and replace it with another one.

It was this foolishness of My Chau that was the first cause of the loss of Au Lac. But say it again and again. Why did his father lose his magic crossbow without even knowing it? And when the enemy army arrived, the king’s father was still calmly playing chess, only to find out that it was lost when he used the crossbow. Should such an important treasure, related to the survival of the country like that, the king must keep it carefully and regularly check it. But King An Duong Vuong did not do that. And My Chau was accidentally seduced by Trong Thuy. But she also thought that just showing Trong Thuy and then putting it away would not affect anything. Thus, Mi Chau both pleases her husband and does not harm her father. But the reality turned out to be completely opposite to her naive thinking.

And yet, when she ran away with her father, she also removed the goose feathers on her shirt as a sign for Trong Thuy to chase with the hope that her husband would save her as promised. But again, My Chau helped the enemy without even knowing it. In her mind, this job is completely right and should be done, because “the fate of a daughter, if she encounters separation, it will be extremely painful”. If Trong Thuy was not the son of Da, not Au Lac’s enemy, perhaps what Mi Chau did was completely worthy and reasonable. But it’s unfortunate because My Chau’s actions with deep conjugal sentiments caused the country to fall into the hands of the enemy. At the last moment of her life, when her father accused her of being an enemy, Mi Chau suddenly realized that she had been tricked.

But everything was too late. She neither denied nor complained, but only vowed to turn to dust if she were a traitor, on the contrary, if her heart was pure, she would turn into pearls when she died to wash away her humiliation. Sure enough, when Mi Chau died, her blood flowed into the sea, and the clams she ate were turned into pearls. Thus, the injustice of My Chau has been solved. Only regret that she died, died suddenly and mournfully.

Mi Chau’s death both proved her purity of heart and demonstrated two good moral qualities in her: firstly, Me Chau was a faithful and affectionate wife. Second, she is a filial daughter, with a pure heart that is worthy of respect. At the same time, My Chau died in large part because of the subjectivity of his father. When he married his daughter, the king should carefully consider the background of his son-in-law. On the other hand, the magic crossbow is a rare treasure, the king must check it regularly and store it carefully. But King An Duong Vuong did not do that. Until the last moment, he had to cut his beloved daughter to death when he heard the Golden Turtle condemning the person behind as the enemy.

As for Trong Thuy, he is to blame but also pitiful. Because stealing the crossbow to steal the magic crossbow was ordered by Father Trong Thuy. Although King Da came to conquer Au Lac, when we put the matter into an objective assessment, when we put the matter in the country’s time, we found that Trong Thuy did the right thing. Because even though the relationship between husband and wife is deep, he still attaches importance to the country’s affairs. He sacrificed his own happiness for the country. Unfortunately, that war was a senseless war. If it is just, then Trong Thuy will become a wonderfully beautiful hero. Although Trong Thuy was an enemy, although he obeyed his father and stole the magic crossbow, on the other hand, he did not treat his wife, the daughter of King An Duong Vuong, who defeated his father. When his wife died, Trong Thuy, out of pity, also died in a well near the place where My Chau was buried. When you take jade to wash the water of this well, the more you wash it, the brighter it becomes. Perhaps My Chau secretly forgave Trong Thuy. And even the folk when creating this ending also sympathized with both husband and wife.

This tragic tragedy, full of twists and turns, has made the reader feel uneasy. But on the other hand, people want through the story to remind the next generation that: In any situation, you must be sober, consider everything carefully. Absolutely never be subjective. Especially important things like keeping the country, we must be more careful, know how to put the common good above personal interests, know how to sacrifice ourselves for the sake, know how to consider all right and wrong actions.

The death of the couple has awakened many young people. Because today in society, there are many people who use all kinds of tricks for personal gain. They help their wives, their husbands, and each other to achieve their own goals. Through the story, each person should reflect on themselves, to lead a new life, a life with good actions and ideals.

Mi Chau is the daughter of Thuc Phan An Duong Vuong, a princess with golden leaves and branches, with an innocent, pure, gullible mind and no sense of citizenship. Appearing in the later part of the story An Duong Vuong and My Chau – Trong Thuy, she is also the one who is responsible for a great deal of the tragedy “the country has lost its home”.

My Chau was born and raised in the situation that An Duong Vuong “built a crossbow castle” and defeated the invaders of Trieu Da for the first time. It can be said that she lived in the resistance war against invasion in which her father was the supreme leader, but through the legend, we see that Mi Chau was completely naive, uninterested and had no understanding of protecting her family. defend the country. That is shown by the fact that My Chau stole the magic crossbow for Trong Thuy to see. That act is both pitiful and reprehensible. It is pitiful that My Chau followed the three obediences religion, but it is reprehensible because in the situation of the country having wars, a princess and daughter of the king who only knew how to fulfill the word “to obey” without caring about the fate of the country, humanity and the world. people are guilty. There is nothing to blame for Me Chau’s love for her husband, but she has violated the principle of “national secret” of a citizen and will inevitably be condemned and criticized.

Mi Chau has put her own love above the patriotism, an act that does not think of the individual’s obligations to the Fatherland, much less aware of the impact of the interests of the country on the individual. If An Duong Vuong’s vigilance was an indirect cause, then the lightheadedness, gullibility and innocence of My Chau was the direct cause of the loss of the country. Mi Chau believes in loving her husband with a blind love. Our people have created the image of a goose feather coat which is an ingenious artistic detail to clearly show that blindness and blame. Trong Thuy swapped the magic crossbow, before returning home asked Me Chau: “The love between husband and wife cannot be forgotten, meaning that mother and father never give up. I’m going back to visit my father now, if the time comes when the two countries are at odds and the North and the South separate, I will look for her again, what will I use as a sign?”

Mi Chau replied: “I have a brocade shirt that I usually wear on my body. Wherever I go, I will remove the feathers and sprinkle them at the crossroads to make a sign, so we can save each other.” Trong Thuy has just returned home, the war between the two countries has happened. The crossbow no longer exists, had to get on the horse to run away with the king, it should have been a conspiracy of Trong Thuy, but Mi Chau was still blind and ignorant, did not consider the situation but still sprinkled goose feathers to do it. sign, is like showing the way for the enemy to come and arrest you. Doing that directly leads to the tragedy of losing the country. Thanks to the reminder of the god Kim Quy, she realized the false nature of Trong Thuy and decisively gave up, saying goodbye to Trong Thuy in her life as well as in her heart.

Before she died, Mi Chau said: “I am a girl’s fate, if you have a rebellious heart to plot to harm your father, when you die, you will turn to dust. If one’s filial piety is deceived by others, death will turn into pearls to wash away the humiliation and hatred.” She just wanted to wash away the word “disloyalty”, “unfilial”, just wanted everyone to understand that she was deceived, but did not dare to complain, as well as ask for forgiveness. However, our people do not judge her from the usual feudal moral point of view but from the point of view of the nation and nation to condemn her. With the unforgivable mistakes of a citizen towards the country, our people not only let the Golden Tortoise condemn her harshly and uncompromisingly, calling her a “enemy” but also let Me Chau die. under the stern sword of his father. The tragedy of Mi Chau has become a lesson about the benefits between the private and the common, and for later sons and daughters about their gullible nature. Whoever it is, it is necessary to have a sense of the existence of the country.

But the attitude and assessment of the people are both sympathetic and reasonable. My Chau is guilty, but the sins she caused were because she was too light-hearted, loved her husband, so she was deceived. Moreover, she also fell in love and suffered a painful death. However, the folk author did not want to end the fate of My Chau with that tragic ending. She was transformed into another form: “My Chau died at the seashore, the blood flowed into the water, the clams and clams she ate were turned into pearls”, “Her body was brought back to be buried in Loa Thanh, the body turned into jade. .

This is a familiar art trick in the tradition of folk tales: using the form of incarnation to prolong the life of the character. But in many stories, the character is only incarnated in one form, while Mi Chau does not fully incarnate. This unique form of incarnation and clone shows the sympathy and tolerance of the people to the purity of Mi Chau, while also showing a strict attitude and history lessons. The story of My Chau is a valuable lesson for life. To Huu wrote:

“I tell people the story of My Chau

The heart is in the wrong place on the head

The magic crossbow unintentionally handed over the enemy’s hand

So the fate of sinking in the deep sea”

Trong Thuy is An Duong Vuong’s son-in-law. All tragic causes first began with An Duong Vuong when he let his own love overwhelm the vision of a wise man. Especially, the one who stayed in-law served Trieu Da’s ambition – taking the secret of the magic crossbow to rob the country. An Duong Vuong’s deplorable lack of vigilance caused the loss of the country, but its consequences had tragic meanings. The drama is to create a scene of birth and death, breaking the love of My Chau – Trong Thuy.

Although the legend recorded by later generations is very brief, the core of that tragedy is still clear: the family relationship of the two inherently antagonistic families has unpredictable uncertainties. However, An Duong “accidentally” married his beloved daughter to the son of the enemy. According to the legend, there are no explanations for the root cause of My Chau’s involvement in Trong Thuy’s theft of the pin. Kim Qui’s crossbow. But according to the story line, Mi Chau clearly believed that Trong Thuy came to her with all her heart.

Her personal innocence is something that can be forgiven, but because of her own love, revealing the national secret is really an unforgivable sin. More deplorable, that love lacks such a clear reason. She did not realize the hidden meanings in Trong Thuy’s words when she parted to warn her father. She was not alert enough to realize in her husband’s words the potential danger of war: “I am returning to visit my father, if the time comes when the two countries are at odds, north and south separate, what will I look for as a sign?” . Me Chau was so confused that she couldn’t say a single word about the reason for the separation, but only focused on the couple’s reunion. Placing personal love above national destiny like that is truly critical.

Behind the love of My Chau – Trong Thuy is a whole conspiracy to take over Trieu Da’s sinister plot, none other than the one who carried out that scheme is Trong Thuy. From the moment he reached Loa Thanh as a son-in-law, he put the spy mission on top. Better yet, he took advantage of his innocent wife to execute a perfect scheme. In terms of nature, Trong Thuy is a fraud and greedy person: cheating on his wife to get the Golden Tortoise claws, both plotting to rob the country, and wanting to take full control of My Chau’s heart. From the perpetrator, he became his own victim. There can be no compromise between national interests and love between the couple when hostility is a potential danger in the husband and wife relationship.

An Duong Vuong lost his country from his lack of vigilance and contempt for his enemies. The king himself longed for peace between the two countries, ending the war from childhood love. But ironically, it is an opening for the malicious father and son Trieu Da to take advantage of. An Duong Vuong himself also suffered the tragedy when he drew his sword to punish the traitor who was his beloved daughter, the king stood above the national interest and rejected his own love, that action was respected by folk treatment: The Golden Turtle splits the water and leads the king into the sea. Mi Chau has to pay the price with her impulsiveness, but she also wakes up to realize her tragedy. A lovely innocent girl was betrayed, she finally recognized the enemy’s face even though it was too late.

The benevolent look of our people has been given to Mi Chau when letting her transform into jade and blood into pearls, but it is also fair to punish criminals from a patriotic stance. Mi Chau is really to blame but also very pitiful. The legend no longer only recounts the history of dehydration, but also contains a sympathetic look for the couple – when love is faced with a conspiracy.

Trong Thuy had to pay the price for the deception when he could only bring My Chau’s body back for burial. With a country robber, our people will not let him usurp and continue to deceive My Chau. But what is more remarkable is the death of Trong Thuy’s head plunge into the well and the end of the story: “The next generation finds pearls in the East Sea, washes them with water from the well, and feels more pure”. Trong Thuy’s dirty deception is a warning: only sincere love will be rewarded, it is impossible for love to accompany lowly calculations and ambitions to rob the country.

The legend of My Chau – Trong Thuy is forever still valid from its humanistic meaning, from lessons of caution as well as a reminder on how to deal with private – common, individual – community relationships. That poignant tragic story is also an expression of our people’s clear stance and feelings on historical issues and human relations.

If anyone has ever been to Co Loa commune, Dong Anh district, Hanoi, it is impossible not to come to the vestiges of the ancient Loa citadel, where there is Trong Thuy well, also known as Ngoc well, Thuong temple worshiping An Duong Vuong, Am Ba Chua worships My Chau, a testimony reminiscent of a time of “building a citadel – making a crossbow”, of a magical love tragedy. The legend of An Duong Vuong and My Chau – Trong Thuy has entered the spiritual life of our people and has become an indispensable cultural and religious feature. All three main characters in the final work have to receive different endings, but perhaps the most infuriating and pitiful is the character Mi Chau.

The story of An Duong Vuong and My Chau – Trong Thuy can be divided into two parts. The most important part is the lesson to keep the water drawn from the successes of An Duong Vuong and more importantly the second part of the lesson to keep the water drawn from An Duong Vuong’s vigilance and especially his naivety. (and also caught off guard) of Me Chau in love and in dealing with the relationship between personal happiness and the interests of the nation and the country. Both lessons are equally important. The tragedy of dehydration stemmed from An Duong Vuong’s lack of vigilance.

An Duong Vuong was too vague about the greedy, cruel and sinister nature of the enemy, so he accepted the end of the friendship; The enemy pulled back subjectively without any defense, so they lost and ran away miserably. After that, it was facilitated by the gullibility and gullibility of Me Chau. Unknowingly aiding the enemy’s aggression, Mi Chau is both angry, reprehensible, and pitiful. Mi Chau is angry because she made mistakes that should not have been in a princess and daughter of the king. The magic crossbow is a national secret, the mysterious power that makes Dai Viet’s invincible victory, yet, because of the personal and private marital love, to satisfy what she considers to be her intelligence. her husband, but secretly took the crossbow for her husband to see, so that the magic crossbow was swapped without knowing it.

Revealing the country’s secret to someone who was ready to conspire to invade, My Chau could not imagine how serious the consequences of her actions would be. The act of sprinkling goose feathers when sitting behind the saddle of the father to escape from the gods is also an inadvertent act, because: The fate of a daughter, if she encounters separation, it will be painful. I wear a brocade shirt with goose feathers on my body. Wherever I go, I will tear off the feathers and sprinkle them at the crossroads to make a sign, so we can save each other. Merely thinking of her own happiness but in the end could not save each other, but also a sign for the enemy to chase, so that in the end she had to die as an “inner enemy”. Mi Chau’s mistakes and sins were indisputable and she was found guilty in a completely righteous way. Thanks to that, the lesson on vigilance becomes more and more profound.

However, folk are always very fair and full of compassion. The ancients pointed out the mistake of Mi Chau, but also found there the deep causes that made us see that she was actually just a victim, a very pitiful victim. Her mistake comes first from the mistake of An Duong Vuong. An Duong Vuong married My Chau to Trong Thuy, which also means that the king has given her the duties and responsibilities of a wife to follow her husband. Not to mention that love and conjugal duty can overshadow obligations and responsibilities. Because of her gullibility, Mi Chau could not believe that her husband was a “spy”; That’s why I brought the secret of my country and shared it with Trong Thuy as a common story shared by couples.

Just like revealing the secret of the magic crossbow that made the country’s army defeated, the sprinkling of goose feathers once again inadvertently pointed the way for the enemy to chase the father and son. Twice in a row she made mistakes without even realizing the mistake she was making. Sin is caused by innocence and gullibility, so it’s pitiful. The fact that the Golden Turtle accused Me Chau of being an enemy, although pushing the character to a tragic fate, was a necessary ending according to the people’s opinion. It is clear that My Chau is guilty. Her crime of directly causing the loss of her country deserves death. That is a necessary lesson to teach the spirit of vigilance in the cause of preserving the country.

Criticizing My Chau with a “death sentence” people also understand that the guilt is not intentional but is unintentional, naive, light-hearted and gullible. Therefore, they molded her to be turned into pearls just like the curse on the seashore. My Chau’s blood flows into the sea, edible clams and shells are turned into pearls, and her body is brought back to be buried in Loa Thanh and turned into jade. Mi Chau was punished for her crimes but was also recruited for her pure and innocent soul. The image of pearls – wells at the end of the work is a perfect creation. It belongs to the strict, humane and understanding attitude of our people.

The character of Mi Chau and her extreme narration has made us both angry, empathetic and deeply saddened. I hope that in another world, she has learned a lesson for herself and has a more right and peaceful life. And then, My Chau’s fate will be different…

For generations, our ancestors have always had ways of educating people through the lessons of the past. Through folk songs, proverbs, allegories, many valuable lessons have been drawn. The legend of An Duong Vuong and My Chau – Trong Thuy is one of the lessons about water retention and vigilance. In the story, there is a character that is both pitiful but also extremely reprehensible, that is Trong Thuy – a character that makes us think.

Trong Thuy is one of the three main characters of the story as the name of the work, this character plays the villain that creates the contradiction of the story. Thuy is the son of Trieu Da – a cunning schemer, always seeking to invade Au Lac. Thuy is a pawn for Trieu Da to plan to re-invade our country. Knowing his father’s bad intentions, he did not stop him, he “obediently” listened to his father’s arrangement, it can be seen that Thuy is a person with a heart as good as his father.

Trong Thuy and her father had their own plans. First, he went to Au Lac to ask for peace, befriended Me Chau, and then went forward to propose to her. Mi Chau is a young girl, extremely innocent, innocent and pure. She fell into Trong Thuy’s love trap. In love with My Chau and his father, he married her and lived in Au Lac. He always sought to earn her trust, tricked her into knowing the secret of the king. He did not hesitate, took the opportunity to swap the magic crossbow, and then tricked Me Chau to return to report to Trieu Da, bring troops to fight, and plot to kill An Duong Vuong.

In the husband and wife relationship, Trong Thuy treats My Chau well, all because there is an existing conspiracy, not from the heart, showing that he is a dishonest and unfaithful husband who has taken advantage of love. her for her own benefit. But then “evil, evil retribution”, Trong Thuy herself encountered her own tragedy with no way out. After living with My Chau, Thuy realized the deep love that his wife had for her, she was always faithful and trusted. Thuy also realized that he loved his wife very much, he regretted what he had done, he betrayed his love for the person he loved. And death might be the best way he wanted to atone for her. After all, Trong Thuy is also a chess piece of his father, caught up in the war of greedy people.

Trong Thuy deserves to be condemned for his actions, a man with cowardly tricks, taking advantage of the naive and gullible My Chau to steal the magic crossbow and then cause the suffering and misery of an entire nation. Au Lac. But I also sympathize because after all, he is also a chess piece in his father’s hand, and our people have been extremely tolerant when creating more details of the jade well. Through the character Trong Thuy with what he has done, the author has brought a lesson to the next generation about vigilance as well as the results of wrongdoers that will pay a heavy price, living in sin, and excruciating pain.

Many generations have passed, there are love stories that have become legends like Chu Dong Tu and Tien Dung, but there are also love relationships or rather, unjust love that makes people’s hearts ache for thousands of years like Mi Chau – Trong Thuy. The My Chau well in Dong Anh is still there, besides the lesson on being wary of the enemy, the unjust love still leaves deep humanistic lessons about love and happiness.

With the humane eyes of the people, with what we always wanted to believe and believed every time we read the pages of love Me Chau Trong Thuy, we can consider this a beautiful love in its own right. Mi Chau is the daughter of Thuc judge An Duong Vuong, a beautiful, innocent and pure princess. And Trong Thuy is a good prince, proficient in bowing and swordsmanship. The love relationship between the couple Tien Dong – Ngoc Nu since this Van Lang – Au Lac time is undeniably not worthy of admiration and dreams, I myself and perhaps everyone have always believed that they had happy years, wrapped in tangerine love.

There was a time when Trong Thuy wanted to tell Me Chau about her father’s cruel schemes and calculations to save her from a bloody war. Then how can it be said that Trong Thuy’s love is just a lie and deception. Only blame the husband’s love and loyalty cannot be reconciled, blame Trong Thuy for being too greedy to break this dreamlike love affair. Until Mi Chau died, he still embraced her figure with one heart and then died in torment because of an incomplete love. His love now, his death now is just a lie. But there’s nothing left to lie about when Mi Chau is dead, Trieu Da has achieved her ambition. This departure of Trong Thuy can only be an apology, a belated salvation for lost love. Then when they turn into the next life, two people can love each other for a lifetime without fading….

But ironically, if that love were as beautiful, as flat and sweet as that, there would be no unjust love Me Chau Trong Thuy carved on the Vietnamese historical stele for thousands of years. No matter where we want to go, we can’t deny that the beautiful marriage of My Chau – Trong Thuy comes from a not very good motive. Trong Thuy became An Duong Vuong’s son-in-law first because he wanted to spy on Au Lac country, then because of his love for Me Chau. His feelings may be sincere and good, but from the past until now, only sincere love has been rewarded. ambition to rob the country. Then when people want to go against the truth, that’s when the tragedy begins.

A gullible and gullible Mi Chau, wholeheartedly trusting her husband without the slightest doubt, without any precaution. A Trong Thuy wants to be full of meaning to the mountains and rivers, and to be full of love with his family, with his beloved wife whom he loves dearly. That belief, that desire seems to be nothing to blame and criticize, but it is itself the cause of the tragedy of the two people’s love. Mi Chau clearly believed that Trong Thuy came to her with all her heart. Her personal innocence is something that can be forgiven, but for love to reveal national secrets is really a sin that cannot be tolerated. Even more reprehensible, that love was so irrational and lucid that she was not alert enough to recognize her husband’s words when they parted with the potential for war: “I will return, if the two countries fall apart, I will return. Find her, what is the sign?”

Me Chau was so confused that she couldn’t say a word about the reason for the separation, but only focused on the couple’s reunion. My Chau’s impatience continued when Trieu Da’s army invaded Au Lac, she followed her father to flee without forgetting to sprinkle goose feathers along the way to make a sign for Trong Thuy. Up to this point, My Chau’s love cannot be called innocent and pure, but only ignorance and blindness. It killed an entire Au Lac people on the rise, and even killed her dear father who had been attached to her for many years. My Europe’s death is also an atonement, an excuse for her pure heart but being deceived and betrayed by people.

Mi Chau passed away but her body did not turn to dust, her blood turned to pearls – a bright pearl washed with blood and tears, with her whole life of purity. It is often said that death is the best end to tragedy. But as soon as this tragedy passed, another tragedy was followed. My Chau died, leaving behind a bitter love affair for thousands of years. When she was still alive, she trusted Trong Thuy with all her heart, but he betrayed her. But when My Chau left, carrying resentment and hatred for cheaters and lovers, then Trong Thuy regrets it, then hugs her body back in torment, in excruciating pain. for not being able to hold on to a late love that has passed. In the eyes of Au Lac people, Trong Thuy may be an enemy, an evil spy, but really he is just a victim of war, ambition for power and love.

Then, when the work was done, the name was fulfilled, the man carried the nostalgia for his beloved wife and jumped into the well to commit suicide. But even though the water from Trong Thuy well can wash off My Chau pearls, the love between the two can never be the same again. Once the trust was broken, when Mi Chau had to pay the price for her ignorance with her life, she firmly believed that she could never again be blindly second to sacrifice her life for something. meaningless beliefs.

The legend of An Duong Vuong and My Chau – Trong Thuy is an extremely typical work, leaving a deep impression in the hearts of readers. Referring to this work, no one can’t help but remember the beautiful Mi Chau, but because of her love for her husband, because of her gullibility, she became an ancient sinner and died in pain.

Mi Chau is the daughter of An Duong Vuong Thuc Phan, a princess with jade leaves and golden branches, with a pure, innocent soul, gullible, gullible and has no sense of citizenship. Appearing in the later part of the work, Mi Chau is also the one who has to take great responsibility for the tragedy “the country has lost its home”. It was a beautiful, innocent and pure princess, with no sense of civic responsibility, political consciousness, only immersed in love and conjugal affection.

Mi Chau is so naive and gullible that she arbitrarily used the national secret for her own love, causing the treasures of the country to be swapped without her knowing; Again thinking only of personal happiness when marking the way for Trong Thuy to chase. When evaluating this character, there have appeared many different opinions, critics, advocates. Being accused of being a thief sitting behind a horse is right and right, and the person who did it was her biological father. My Chau’s sin is so heavy that it deserves to be severely punished. She had to pay for her gullible, naive, naive actions with broken love, with her own death.

Although the princess caused the loss of the country, but with Me Chau, the people were fair, tolerant, generous and benevolent when worshiping An Duong Vuong in Thuong temple, but worshiping Princess Mi Chau in her house. Lord, (which worships a headless statue). But to be fair, Mi Chau is also pitiful and sympathetic, because all of those mistakes and sins stem from her carelessness, from her naivety, gullibility to the point of blindness. . She only acted according to her feelings, without thinking, only knowing her own business, not worrying about public affairs. To Huu wrote about her fairly and sternly in the Confidential article:

I told the story of My Chau in the past

The heart is in the wrong place on the head

The magic crossbow unintentionally handed over the enemy’s hand

So the deep sea wreck…

The detail of Mi Chau showing Trong Thuy the magic crossbow proves that Mi Chau is heavy on husband and wife love but forgets her duties and responsibilities to the Fatherland. It can be affirmed that Mi Chau violated the principle of this servant towards his father. She had revealed a state secret. It is true that the love of husband and wife, even though they are attached, cannot surpass the love of the country. Water loss leads to melting house, no one can preserve happiness. Goose feathers can be sprinkled with sugar, but Trong Thuy can’t save My Chau. We need to derive from the methodological basis and the people’s social, political-aesthetic consciousness in the characteristics of the Legend genre to recognize the character of Mi Chau.

This genre aims to emphasize the good, criticize the bad and the evil, according to the people’s concept. The legend promotes patriotism, the will for independence and freedom, cannot praise the princess’s daughter, the heroic king, who worked hard to build a fortress to defend the country, but only listens to her husband, not thinking about public duties. people with the destiny of the Fatherland. Looking back at history to learn from experience, educate patriotism, promote civic consciousness, put national affairs above housework. Therefore, our people do not judge her according to the common feudal moral point of view, but stand on the point of view of the nation and the nation to condemn her. For the unforgivable mistakes of a people towards the people. Our country and people not only let the Golden Turtle (representing the people’s justice) condemn her harshly and mercilessly call her a enemy, but also let Me Chau die under the strict sword of the king. dad.

Before her death, Mi Chau also realized her great guilt and did not deny it. She just wanted to clarify, “If you have a rebellious heart, plot to harm your father, you will die when you die. If someone’s loyalty is deceived, then dying will turn into pearls to wash away the humiliation.” She just wanted to wash away the word “disloyalty, unfilial”, just wanted people to understand that she was “a faithful but deceived” but did not complain, nor ask for forgiveness. Princess Mi Chau received eternal mercy from the Au Lac people and the Vietnamese people because she knew her sin, dared to admit it, and was willing to accept it. If you use the “three obediences” religion to justify Me Chau, that she is only a girl, that she only needs to submit to her husband as a wife, it is to lower the bravery and status of the princess of Au Lac country. this.

Pearl image – pearl pearl is her incarnation. Mi Chau was subjected to the judgment of history stemming from the patriotic tradition, earnest with the independence and freedom of the ancient Vietnamese. However, the fate of My Chau did not stop there. But she did not fully incarnate in a single form. She incarnated – clone: ​​blood flows into the sea, mussels eaten turn into pearls. Her body turned into jade. That image both shows tolerance and sympathy for the innocence and innocence when committing crimes, and also shows a strict attitude and historical lessons on dealing with the relationship between the family and the country, together with private.

The lesson about the character of Mi Chau is an extremely bitter lesson for a holy girl who is too naive and gullible. It is also a lesson about vigilance and putting faith in the right place for many generations of us Vietnamese.

The story of An Duong Vuong and My Chau Trong Thuy presents the first cautionary lesson in the history of our nation’s struggle for national defense. The first part of the story reflects An Duong Vuong’s role in building and protecting Au Lac country; The next part is the tragedy of the country losing its home due to the lack of vigilance of An Duong Vuong and his son.

Mi Chau is the daughter of An Duong Vuong Thuc Phan, a princess with jade leaves and golden branches, with a pure, innocent soul, gullible, gullible and has no sense of citizenship. Appearing in the later part of the work, Mi Chau is also the one who has to take great responsibility for the tragedy “the country has lost its home”.

When evaluating this character, there have appeared many different opinions, critics, advocates. Advocates have adopted the “three obediences” religion (at home, submissive father, married son and son-in-law), a feudal moral point of view to defend her. According to them, Me Chau is a gentle, filial daughter who obeys her father when she gets married. How can she blame her for being off guard with her husband? Therefore, the fact that My Chau did not hide anything from Trong Thuy is innocent.

But they have forgotten that, in a country with many wars, a princess can only fulfill the word “obedience” but unintentionally with the national destiny is guilty. Mi Chau believes that loving her husband is not to blame, but she violated the principle of “national secrecy” of a people towards the country, putting her own love above the country, even though it was just due to light-heartedness, inadvertently. . If ADV’s lack of vigilance is an indirect cause, then Mi Chau’s lightheadedness and innocence are the direct cause of the loss of the country. Mi Chau believes in loving her husband with a blind love. Our people have created the image of a goose down shirt which is an ingenious artistic detail to clearly show the blameless blindness of My Chau.

Trong Thuy swapped the magic crossbow, before going back to the country asked Mi Chau: “I am going back to visit my father … to do it secretly.” Mi Chau replied: “I have … as a sign”. Trong Thuy just returned home, the war between the two countries happened, the crossbow bolt was gone, had to get on the horse and run away with his father, he should have known it was Trong Thuy’s conspiracy, but Mi Chau was still naive and blind. Without considering the situation, still sprinkled with goose feathers as a sign, it is no different from showing the way for the enemy to chase him. That act of hers directly led to the tragedy of the house meltdown.

Therefore, it cannot be said that as a wife, Me Chau must absolutely listen and follow her husband’s words. It cannot be assumed that she is an innocent person, not having to bear any responsibility for the tragedy of losing her home. Her guilt is very heavy. Therefore, our people do not judge her from the usual feudal moral point of view, but stand on the point of view of the nation and nation to condemn her. With the unforgivable mistakes of a citizen towards the country, our people not only let the Golden Tortoise (representing the people’s justice) condemn her harshly, mercilessly calling her a thief but and let Me Chau die under the strict sword of his father.

But the attitude and assessment of the people are both sympathetic and reasonable. My Chau is guilty, but the sins she caused were not her intention, but because she was too light-hearted, fell in love with her husband, was deceived, and sinned. Moreover, she finally came to her senses to recognize her enemies and accept a painful death. Mi Chau is guilty, she has to pay, but her injustice also needs to be solved. Creating magical details, fulfilling the prayer before death of Mi Chau, our people have expressed their attitude of tolerance and sympathy and vindicated her. At the same time, through that miraculous detail, our forefathers also showed their strict attitude and passed on an eternal history lesson to their children and grandchildren in dealing with the private-common relationship.

About Trong Thuy: Trong Thuy is one of the three main characters of the work. He is the son of Trieu Da, the son of An Duong Vuong, the husband of Princess Mi Chau. Going to Au Lac following his father’s sinister scheme, Trong Thuy married Mi Chau not for love, but only to use her to carry out a political scheme, to complete the spy mission entrusted by his father. . And in the name of a husband, Trong Thuy has successfully completed that spy role. He took advantage of Me Chau, took advantage of her gullibility, gullibility, deceived her feelings to steal the magic crossbow, and maliciously asked Me Chau a meaningful question before returning to the country with the aim of knowing how to find her. the way to pursue An Duong Vuong if the king fled. It is these actions of his that are the direct causes of the tragedy of the loss of home and family of ADV father and son and Au Lac people. He is the enemy of the people of Au Lac, a man who deserves to be unmasked, condemned, and eternally guilty.

However, from another perspective, Trong Thuy was also just a victim of a war of aggression. In the hands of Trieu Da, Trong Thuy is nothing more than a political card. Moreover, despite being a cruel person, Trong Thuy has not completely lost his humanity. It was Trong Thuy’s words with My Chau during parting, his suicide after a series of days of torment and regret that said it.

Before parting to return to the country to offer the magic crossbow to Trieu Da, Trong Thuy said to Mi Chau: “Love between husband and wife … make a sign”. These are not completely cold and lies, but it contains more or less sad feelings, a pain of separation.

Trong Thuy’s humanity is even more evident in the final part of the work when the folk author describes Trong Thuy’s mood after the death of Me Chau. Not immersed in the glory, fame, in the happiness of domination, after My Chau died, Trong Thuy always lived in nostalgia, in tormented regret and finally deadlocked, on the same road. he found his own death. Trong Thuy’s life is not only an act of repenting for a blind mistake, but also an awakening of humanity, denial of war, and denial of all glory and power to return to the heavenly realm to return to heaven. have a peaceful mind.