Vol 7, No 2 S (2023)

Since the emergence of the Far Eastern empires, the fundamental principle of the transfer of power in the dynasties that ruled here strictly along the male line and strictly downward was regularly attacked, often successfully, by the female family lines of the ruling families, in particular, by mothers, wives, fathers-in-law and sons-in-law of the emperor, which constantly aroused deep concern among the representatives of the main lines. In the XIII-XIV centuries, the Tran dynasty, which ruled Dai Viet (Vietnam), tried to create and put into practice such a system of transferring the throne within the framework of its house, which would exclude even the theoretical possibility of such encroachments. This article is devoted to a description of the specific measures that were taken in connection with this, as well as the events that led to the destruction of this system and ultimately to the fall of the Tran dynasty and the transfer of power in the country to the Ho dynasty, and formally it was through the female line.

The article considers the discovery of a complex of Early Paleolithic sites with a bifacial industry in the central part of Vietnam. Vietnam is one of the unique regions of Southeast Asia, in terms of the settlement of ancient populations of people, the evolution of their culture and the development of man himself, due to its geographical proximity to South China in the north, and during the existence of Sundaland, could serve as one of the transit territories migrations of ancient hominins. In the Gia Lai province in the area of the city of An Khe, the Russian-Vietnamese expedition discovered more than thirty Early Paleolithic sites with pebble-flake industry and bifacially worked tools such as hand axes. According to the tektites found in the cultural layer together with bifaces and pebble tools, two dates were obtained using the 40K/38Ar method: 806 ± 22 thousand years ago and 782 ± 20 thousand years ago These dates indicate that the Early Paleolithic industry discovered in Vietnam existed simultaneously with the industry in the Baise Basin in southern China. Also on the territory of Southeast Asia, several sites with bifacially processed objects and stratified objects with similar technological characteristics of primary splitting dating back to this period were found.

One of the most significant types of Vietnamese ceramics are the vessels decorated in the technique of underglazecobalt painting, known as Bleus de Huê. The article provides a brief history of the appearance of blue-and-white pottery in Vietnam, identifies the heyday and the most widespread distribution of this type of art and the formation of local centers for the production of ceramics and the export of Chinese porcelain to the Vietnamese market.

On the example of these wine bottles, the typology of the main functional forms, variants of artistic design and the symbolism of the decoration of products of the XVIII – early XX centuries are revealed. The relevance of the article is determined by the lack of research on this topic in the Russian-language literature.

The core problem of the Vietnamese culture and in some sense civilization, isits historical bond with the phenomena of the Chinese art, script and thought.The present work discusses the interconnection or influence of the classical Chinese poetry – mostly of the Tan and Song era – on the rime, prosody and most of all metrology of the Vietnamese verse of the period. The time when this genre was born, developed and matured and its rules shaped in full accordance with the classical model. Specifics of this process is the main content of the first part of this paper. The second is the analyses of some Vietnamese masterpieces in the contextof the classical poetic tradition.

The paper is dedicated to the love story of Nguyen Trai (1380–1442), the famous Vietnamese statesman and poet, and Nguyen Thi Lo, one of his concubines, and the interpretation of their love in the story by Nguyen Huy Thiep. This story is very well known in Vietnam due to the both lovers’ tragic death.

Basing on the truly historical events and historical heroes the author in his literary fantasies emphasized Nguyen Trai’s solitude and his weakness as a poet in comparison with rational nature of politicians.