The teacher wrote history in poetry.

Known to readers nationwide with the nickname "The teacher who writes history through poetry", not only does he love poetry, teacher Le Van Cuong is always passionate about his job: he needs to do something to help students love and appreciate the nation's history.

Born in 1984, after graduating from Tay Bac University, Faculty of History Pedagogy, teacher Le Van Cuong worked at Thac Ba High School, Cam An High School, Yen Bai province (before the merger) and is currently working at the Center for Continuing Education, Lao Cai province.

Teacher Le Van Cuong.

During his teaching career, teacher Le Van Cuong realized that most students were “afraid” of learning History. Partly because of the amount of knowledge being too much, partly because of the traditional teaching method being dry, difficult to remember, and difficult to memorize. Therefore, teacher Le Van Cuong came up with the idea of ​​using six-eight verse to tell historical stories - to breathe new life into the subject, creating excitement for students to absorb knowledge better.

In 2016, Le Van Cuong published two collections of six-eight poems, "Outline of the World Epic" with 3,456 verses and "Vietnam in the Traces of Epics" with 36,888 verses. Le Van Cuong is also the first Yen Bai citizen to be recognized by the Vietnam Record Organization three times in 2016, 2018, 2022 as the person who wrote the longest six-eight poems in world history, Vietnamese history, and Yen Bai local history.

Teacher Le Van Cuong with 3 times setting Vietnam Guinness records.

Readers admire Le Van Cuong for his talent in writing history in poetry, for his passion for students with the hope that through poetry, the History subject will be loved and accepted by students. In 2021, the poetry collection "Yen Bai Recorded History" includes 9,038 six-eight verses written about the history of Yen Bai province (before the merger) from prehistoric times to 2020, providing readers with complete and relatively comprehensive information on the political , economic, cultural, social, and defense aspects.

With the poetry collection "Yen Bai marks the history", readers not only gain a huge amount of knowledge from Yen Bai's history but also see in it a heart, love, creativity and a unique, interesting and enthusiastic way of conveying local history of the teacher - poet Le Van Cuong.

3 historical works written in six-eight verse by teacher Le Van Cuong.

In the Vietnamese literary world, there are many writers of six-eight verse, but perhaps no one has devoted all his heart and soul to writing historical poetry like teacher Le Van Cuong. From 2016 to now, he has published 12 poetry collections, including 5 collections of six-eight verse poems about world history, Vietnamese history and Yen Bai history.

Teacher Le Van Cuong confided: I compose not only to satisfy my own passion, but also to convey historical stories in an easy-to-understand, vivid and emotional way to readers, especially the young generation, through the traditional six-eight verse form of the nation. I want history to no longer be dry numbers and events but to become close, easy to remember and move people's hearts, contributing to preserving and spreading love of history and national pride.

Some published poetry works of teacher Le Van Cuong.

With passion, creativity, love of literature and history, teacher Le Van Cuong has overcome many difficulties to succeed with his works of historical poetry. But perhaps, the most successful thing is that thanks to the events and numbers reproduced through the easy-to-read, easy-to-remember, long-lasting, easy-to-pass-on six-eight verses, his History lessons are no longer boring. The recognition of friends, colleagues, the respect, trust, and admiration of students for him are the most precious gifts that teacher Le Van Cuong always cherishes, cherishes, and preserves. Teacher Le Van Cuong has erased the boundary between poetry and dry historical knowledge, lighting the flame of learning with his love and talent.

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