Nguyen Trai was born in 1380, his name is Ung Trai, hometown in Chi Ngai (Chi Linh, Hai Duong) after moving to Nhi Khe (Thuong Tin, Ha Tay). His father is Nguyen Phi Khanh, a poor student, good at school, passing student's status (doctorate). His mother was Tran Thi Thai, son of Tran Nguyen Dan, a noble of the Tran dynasty. At the age of six, his mother died, at the age of ten, his grandfather died, he returned to Nhi Khe, where his father taught. At the age of twenty, in 1400, he passed a student's commission and his father and son joined the Ho Dynasty. In 1407, the Ming invaders defeated Nguyen Phi Khanh and were taken to China. Nguyen Trai and a younger brother followed. At his father's advice, he returned, but was captured by the Ming army. Later, he followed Le Loi. During ten years of fighting, he contributed greatly to the nation's glorious victory.
In early 1428, wiping out the enemy, he eagerly started to rebuild his country when he was suddenly suspected and arrested. He was later released, but no longer trusted as before. He was sad, please come to Con Son. It was in the years 1438 - 1440. In 1440, Le Thai Tong invited him back to work and assigned many important jobs. He was energetically helping the king when the king died suddenly at Camp Vai (Le Chi Vien, Bac Ninh). A long-standing enemy of Nguyen Trai, the wicked at the court gave him a conspiracy to kill the king, and he committed to kill all three of them in 1442.
Injustice of that heaven, more than twenty years later, 1464, Le Thanh Tong finally released, then collected his poetry and sought the surviving son to be an official.
In general, in Nguyen Trai's life, two basic points emerged:
Nguyen Trai was a great national hero and a rare and talented figure of Vietnamese history in the feudal era. Nguyen Trai had a great politician, a military man, a diplomat, a cultural writer, a writer, and a poet. But Nguyen Trai was also a person who had suffered catastrophic injustices. , caused by the society of the past, is also rare in history.
Great writer and poet: a national hero, Nguyen Trai is also a great writer and poet. He also left many valuable works. The "loyal troops from the set" are letters sent to the enemy generals and documents dealing with the Ming court, in order to carry out the plan of "hitting the hearts", now called the enemy. "Binh Ngo Dai Cao", Le Loi summarizes 10 years of fighting against the enemy and proclaims to the people about the cause of the nation and the nation, about the arduous battle process to come to the last great victory. pitcher for the country. "Lam Sơn continent" is the history book of the Lam Son uprising. "Dư Chí Chí" is written about the historical geography of our country. "Chi Linh Son Phu" talks about the struggle against the arduous Minh and heroes. The works are all in Chinese characters. In 1980, Nguyen Trai was recognized by UNESCO as a world cultural celebrity.