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8th century, Wang Wei, Võng Xuyên nhàn cư tặng Bùi tú tài Địch - Nhàn cư ở Võng Xuyên tặng tú tài Bùi Địch (Wheel-Rim River, Dwelling in idleness: for P’ei Ti); 1995 VIetnamese translation by Trần Trọng Kim; 2006 English translation by David Hinton
Lấy chồng từ năm mười bảy tuổi, nhưng chồng cờ bạc, nợ nần nhiều bỏ đi Nam, đến đầu năm 1950 mới trở về quê. Ăn ở lại với nhau được đứa con trai lên hai thì chồng chết. Cách mấy tháng sau đứa con lên sài bỏ đi để chị ở một mình.
She married at seventeen, yet her husband gambled, became heavily indebted, and fled to the South; he only returned to their hometown when 1950 began. They lived together and begat a son, who turned two years old when her husband died. A few months later, her son passed away from a childhood disease, leaving her alone.
Further reading
“Bệnh sài”, in Sức khoẻ toàn dân (in Vietnamese), 2018 December 28, archived from the original on 26 September 2022