The “Ngọa Triều” epithet: the record and its readers
The chronicle explains the epithet Ngọa Triều by hemorrhoids and lying court; a wild-history note adds wine, and Ngô Thì Sĩ adds poison.
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Long reads on the people, the chronicle, and what the series invents.
The chronicle explains the epithet Ngọa Triều by hemorrhoids and lying court; a wild-history note adds wine, and Ngô Thì Sĩ adds poison.
The chronicle records an eight-line omen verse that Vạn Hạnh read as the Lý rise. The series never prints it — and the line not to cross is inventing one.