TTLA: Research on the work "Minister Ho's family rituals"

Author name: Vu Viet Bang

Thesis title:Research on the work "Minister Ho's family rituals"

Dissertation field: Han Nom

Major: Han Nom Code: 62 22 01 04

Name of the postgraduate training unit: University of Social Sciences and Humanities - Vietnam National University, Hanoi.

1. Purpose and research objects of the thesis

- Research purpose:Minister of State's family ceremonyby Ho Si Duong (1622 - 1682) has a special role in the system of Vietnamese family ritual works and in the process of developing Vietnamese family rituals. The study of this work aims at the following objectives: introducing the author and solving the problem of textual study of the work, analyzing the value of the work in the system of Vietnamese family ritual works, analyzing the position of the work in the history of family rituals in Vietnam; thereby, the thesis contributes to solving a number of major problems about Vietnamese family rituals, such as the concept of Vietnamese family rituals, the history of Vietnamese family rituals, and Chinese cultural elements in Vietnamese family rituals.

- Research subjects:WorkMinister of State's family ceremony.

2. Research methods used

- Han Nom textual method

- Interdisciplinary research methods

3. Main results and conclusions

3.1. Main results

- Overview of the research situation on family rituals and family ritual culture, author Ho Si Duong, workMinister of State's family ceremonyfrom the beginning of the 20th century to the present.

- Research on author Ho Si Duong, research on the text of his workMinister of State's family ceremony.

- Research the role ofMinister of State's family ceremonyIn the system of Vietnamese family ritual works, the position of the work in the development process of Vietnamese family rituals.

3.2. Conclusion

- Vietnamese family rituals refer to ritual activities within the family and clan, mainly funeral rituals. Research on family rituals from the beginning of the 20th century to the early 80s of the 20th century had certain achievements, but with author Ho Si Duong and his workMinister of State's family ceremonyOnly briefly introduced, not worthy of the value of the work.

- WorkMinister of State's family ceremonyby Minister Ho Si Duong (1652-1682) was drafted after 1638 and completed after 1676, consisting of two volumes:National language ceremonyBook of the UpperandFamily Q&A CeremonyBook of Xia, each book has its own structure and purpose, but the content is interrelated in a family work.

- The original work is the 5th Vinh Huu engraving (1739) with the code AB.592, Institute of Han Nom Studies.

- In the system of Vietnamese ritual works,Minister of State's family ceremonyplayed a pivotal role, inheriting the legacy of etiquette from the previous generation and creating the foundation for the appearance of a series of family etiquette works later.

- For the history of Vietnamese family ceremonies, the rituals inMinister of State Ho's family ceremonyBuilt on the ideology of Vietnamese Confucianism, widely published, it has a special mission in forming Confucian family rituals during the Later Le Dynasty and shaping the appearance of Vietnamese family rituals.

SUMMARY OF DOCTORAL THESIS

The author's name: Vu Viet Bang

Thesis title: A study of the work “Discounted Trade”

Scientific branch of the thesis: Sino-Nom

Major: Sino-Nom Code: 62 22 01 04

The name of postgraduate training institution: Thesis purpose and objectives

University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi National University.

1. Thesis purpose and objectives

-Purpose of research:Discounted Trade (Minister of State Ho's family ceremony-Minister Ho's familial rituals),written by Ho Si Duong (1622 - 1682), is one of the essential works that form the Vietnamese familial rituals corpus and has a special role in shaping the Vietnamese tradition of familial rituals. This study is aimed at solving the cultural issues regarding the work and analyzing the role of the work in the history of Vietnamese familial rituals, on the basis of which the study will hopefully help to clarify some matters related to Vietnamese familial rituals, among which are: the concept of Vietnamese familial rituals, the history of Vietnamese familial rituals, Chinese cultural elements in Vietnamese familial rituals.

- Object of study: The workDiscounted rates.

2.Research methods

- Sino-Nom textological method

- Interdisciplinary methods

3. Major results and conclusions

3.1.The major results

- An overview of the status of the study of social reality, cultural representations regarding familial rituals, as well as of the author Ho Si Duong and theDiscounted Tradefrom the beginning of the twentieth century to the present.

- New findings on the author Ho Si Duong and a textological interpretation of theDiscounted Trade

- A view on as theDiscounted Tradeas both a continuance and an initiator in the Vietnamese system of works on familial rituals.

- A view on the role and mission of theDiscounted Tradein the development history of Vietnamese familial rituals in general and Vietnamese Confucian familial rituals in particular.

3.2.Conclusions

- Vietnamese familial rituals refer to ceremonial activities within families and clans, mainly funerary rituals. The study of familial rituals from the early twentieth century to the early 80s of the twentieth century has its main object of study and basis of reference in the actual ceremonies and rituals themselves, with traditional works on familial rituals being considered mere additional reference sources. From the late 1980s until now, traditional works on familial rituals have been studied from textological and ethnologic point-of-views...etc Meanwhile, Ho Si Duong and theDiscounted Tradehave been barely researched, usually referred to with brief introductions or initial surveys of the text. There has been no in-depth research on the text, content and value of the work.

-Regarding the workDiscounted rates,the initial stages of writing began after 1638 and the work was completed after 1676, including two volumes: “Gia Le Quoc Ngu Quyen Chi Ha” (Family Rites in National Language, Volume 1 -Familial rituals in written Vietnamese, the Upper Volume) and “Gia le van dap Quyen chi Ha” (Family Q&A Volume Ha -Questions and Answers on Rituals, the Lower Volume), each with its own structure and purpose.

- The best edition (in our view) is the printed edition of the Fifth Year of the Reign of Vinh Huu (1739), AB.572 (The Institute of Sino-Nom Studies).

- TheDiscounted Tradehas a crucial role both as a continuance and an initiator in the Vietnamese system of works on familial rituals.

-In the development history of Vietnamese familial rituals, rituals as described in the widely published workDiscounted rates,created on the basis of Vietnamese Confucian thinking, had a special mission in the forming process of Confucian family rituals during the Late Le Restoration Period and the basic features of Vietnamese familial rituals in general.