Poor family but extremely studious and filial, Vu Thanh left a great example for life. Illustration.
To be teacher most famous Le Dynasty sh*t, student of Detective Vu Thanh Many people passed university and held important positions in the court. Even the guests in the Trinh lord’s palace were all students of Vu Thanh.
Complete filial piety
Detective flower Vu Thanh (born in 1664), was born in Dan Loan village, Duong An district, Hai Duong town (now in Nhan Quyen commune, Binh Giang district, Hai Duong province). As the son of a poor family, his strength was weak, so later on, he wandered to Bao Thien pagoda, Tho Xuong district, belonging to Thang Long citadel.
In the book “Vu Trung essay”, Pham Dinh Ho told about the characters and events at the end of the Le Dynasty, and said that Vu Thanh’s ancestor was Hong Linh, the Marquis of Hai Duong. His father was born Quoc Tu.
By the time Vu Thanh was born, the family was very poor, father and son could not support each other. Once the local mandarin forced him to build a rampart, his strength was weak, he could not bear it, had to spend it at Bao Thien pagoda, Tho Xuong district, Thang Long citadel, and then applied to study at the school of the mandarin Vo Cong Dao, his compatriots and his compatriots. district, Mo Trach village people.
At that time, the Mo Trach mandarin school was in Thua Tu lane, east of the Thai temple. The son of the mandarin Mo Trach still has a good voice. When he entered the school to do some of the best essays, the young boy was jealous, and told his fellow students to pick him up early in the morning, teasing and humiliating him.
He had to go another way, but was still tormented by his students so much that he had to drop out of school later, not daring to go again. When Quan Mu Trach asked, he knew that the punishment made the young man dare not be jealous.
Vu Thanh is intelligent and good at school, over ten years old passed Huong Nguyen at Phung Thien Palace (the government with Thang Long citadel). At the age of 22, he passed Dinh Nguyen Tham Hoa at Suu Faculty, the 6th Chinh Hoa year (1685).
He worked as a mandarin through the Academy of Retreat, the Faculty of Merit, the Consortium of Quoc Tu Giam, and the Litigation (Deputy Prime Minister) … in the Trinh lord’s palace, loved by Lord Trinh Can.
His portrait article in “Vu Trung Essay” also recounts how he was loved by God, as well as his filial piety. The story is that one day, when meeting a good king, the lord ate a delicious carp, and immediately sent a piece of rice to invite him to eat in front of him. He ate the rice, but left the fish. The Lord was surprised and asked him, “Please save it for my mother”.
The Lord praised him, and sent another piece of fish to give to his mother. When he took it out, there was only the tail, he ate the tail, left the previous part and brought it back. God even more respect.
Detective flower Vu Thanh became a great educator in the Le Mat dynasty. Illustration.
Open a private school to teach
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Students of Vu Thanh as mandarins spread throughout the Le dynasty. Illustration.
Among Vu Thanh’s students, there was the Duke of Lieu – Dr. Le Huu Kieu, who was historically recognized as a scholar of the 18th century. Coming from the literary Le Huu family in Lieu Xa village (Hung Yen), soon returned to Thang Long to attend Hao Nam School. He spent 50 years as a mandarin with 5 kings, becoming a great mandarin of the Le dynasty. Despite going through many official positions, Le Huu Kieu is still attached to his career as a teacher, continuing his tradition of teachers. One of his best students became a scientist – Le Quy Don label.
When he was a mandarin, because he brought up the eunuchs’ work or asked for help, begging in litigation to speak at the government of Thiet Tee. Covering the Lord Trinh, the Lord sent someone to ask him to punish them, but he did not answer who it was.
The time he worked was also the period when Lord Trinh overpowered King Le. Just because he dissuaded the Lord from being infatuated with female beauty, Vu Thanh was dismissed from office.
He immediately returned to open a teaching school at Hao Nam camp, Quang Duc district (currently the area of Thinh Hao and Hao Nam villages, in O Cho Dua ward, Dong Da district, Hanoi). There were thousands of students, many of whom passed the rank of mandarin in the court.
According to the book “From the capital to the capital”, his school in Hao Nam is right next to Bay Mau lake. Every time when the lecture day comes, the school is not enough to accommodate it all, students have to borrow a boat to visit the lake to listen to the lecture.
Students of his school reached more than seventy people. He and Dr. Nguyen Dinh Tru (from the village of Nguyet Ang, Thanh Tri district) are both pedagogues for scholars. Hao Nam School became a famous private school of Thang Long land at that time.
His students worked as mandarins so much that, once there was an anniversary in the family, all the students who worked as mandarins at the court came to meet at his house. Suddenly, Trinh manor asked the mandarins to serve, but no one was waiting. The Lord asked the person who came to the room to say that it was actually the mandarins about the death anniversary of the teacher’s house in Hao Nam. The Lord also waited until the next day, when the work was done, he summoned the officials to serve.
Not only training the country with many talents, Vu Thanh also directly taught him and his son to be successful. In the Nham Thin exam, with the year Vinh Thinh 8 (1712), his younger brother Vu Huyen and his son Vu Huy both passed the Third Armored Bronze degree. Therefore, folk still circulate the song: “Dong dynasty three doctors / Nhat Nhat bi Vinh Quy” – that is: In the same king’s reign, there are three people in the family who get doctorate / One day, in them there are twice honored.
An exemplary teacher
The street in Hanoi is named after the teacher – Detective Hoa Vu Thanh.
History books record that, Vu Thanh is a person who likes to practice, hates fiction, tries to reform style; listen to the voices of thousands of students from far and near to get a job.
Teacher Vu Thanh has provided broad but practical teaching content, allowing students to grasp the deep roots of the classics but still focus on learning things that can be applied in practice. His serious and innovative way of teaching towards reforming the current state of academic education has “instilled in students’ thinking and creativity”.
The number of students studying Vu Thanh is very large and successful in many fields, there are many people who have obtained doctorates (of literature) and doctor of martial arts (Artists), many have become mandarins, but also many people follow the example of the teacher who opened a school to teach. learn. In which, there were 70 students attending the court, 500 people were mandarins, one thousand people were taught the Nine Classics to a sophisticated place. More than 20 people opened teaching schools in different places. More than 20 people dressed in velvet as generals. Hundreds of people are still studying at the martial arts school.
Following Vu Thanh and later Nguyen Tong Quai, Le Quy Don opened a school to teach many successful students, which are vivid examples of the community education model in our country during the medieval period.
Vu Thanh left posterity a rather voluminous literary career with 22 poems copied in “Toan Viet thi Luc”, many epitaphs composed by Vu Thanh himself and scattered in Hanoi, Bac Ninh, Hung Yen, Bac Giang, Hai Duong, Vinh Phuc, Ninh Binh, Thanh Hoa.
During his lifetime, Vu Thanh campaigned for reform of literature, reorganization of examinations and academia in the direction of promoting practical knowledge. Later, historian Phan Huy Chu commented: “In the later Middle Ages, literature in the style of quoting chapters and citations should become pirated. The literature produced by Ong (Vu Thanh) has an elegant character, changing the style of the ceiling to the sound. that the contemporaries race to follow. From here the literature is renewed”.
The flower detective Vu Thanh died in Hao Nam village, the body was buried in Quang Liet commune (now Thanh Liet commune, Thanh Tri district), the reputation is still passed on for several generations. Passengers walking on the highway through the village often point and say: “That is the old village of Quan Vo (Vu) Tham Hoa!”.
Remembering his talent and virtue, in January 2002, the Hanoi People’s Council decided to name the street from Hao Nam to Giang Vo Vu Thanh.
Scientific conference on educator Vu Thanh.
During the scientific conference “Detective flower Vu Thanh – person and career” taking place at Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam in December 2018, scientists unanimously commented: “Detective flower Vu Thanh is a model teacher. exemplary, typical of knowledge and morality, exemplary of filial piety and studiousness.
He has always shown throughout his life the spirit of wholeheartedly serving the society and has made great contributions to training the country with many talented people. His name has glorified the Vu family, contributing to fostering the tradition of studiousness and nurturing that spirit for posterity.”
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