Mạc Đĩnh Chi

Mạc Đĩnh Chi (莫挺之; 1272–1346) was a renowned Vietnamese Confucian scholar who was the highest-scoring graduate in the palace examinations at the age of only twenty-four.

Mạc Đĩnh Chi was sent twice as envoy to the Chinese Yuan court.

[1] Among the Trân dynasty court scholars, he was almost unique in that his academic degree was recognized by the Chinese.

[2] He himself is also the ancestor of the emperors of the Mạc dynasty.

The Mac Dinh Chi Cemetery is named in his honour.