KING THIEU TRI’S STELE-CARVED WRITINGS BY VINH DINH CANEL IN QUANG TRI PROVINCE

Abstract

Vinh Dinh River, whose location was of great importance in Quang Tri province under the Nguyen Dynasty, was a canal that the kings of the Nguyen Dynasty paid special attention to. Two famous kings - Ming Menh and Thieu Tri - had the canal dredged many times to facilitate its flow. To record those traces, the kings had their poems carved on stone steles built by the riverside. However, due to time and bad preservation, the steles had many punctures, resulting in the loss of many words on them. To restore some parts of the contents on these steles, we have conducted a study to contrast documents to complement the lost writing.