Tản Đà [SEP] date of birth
Tản Đà
Nguyễn Khắc Hiếu (阮克孝), pen name Tản Đà (chữ Hán: 傘沱, 19 May 1889 - 7 June 1939) was a Vietnamese poet.
He used both traditional Sino-Vietnamese forms and European influences and was a transitional figure between the turn of the 1890s such as Tú Xương and Nguyễn Khuyến and the "New Poetry" movement of the 1930s.
Late in his life he published a literary magazine in Hanoi, "An Nam Tạp Chí" (Annam Magazine), but when
most famous one is Tản Viên Peak. Tản Viên Mountain is 1,281 m high. In Vietnamese mythology, this mountain is the home of Sơn Tinh, the mountain god. However, the highest mountain in this range is Vua Peak (or Emperor Peak), which is 1296 m in elevation. A shrine to Ho Chi Minh is controversially located at the summit of this mountain.
At the western foot of the Ba Vì mountain range is the Đà river, while at the eastern edge is an artificial lake called Suối