Ngô Sĩ Liên

[1] Ngô Sĩ Liên was the main compiler of the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, a chronicle of the history of Vietnam and a historical record of an Annamese dynasty.

Ngô based information for his historical book from collections of myths and legends such as Trần Thế Pháp's [vi] Lĩnh Nam chích quái or Việt điện u linh tập.

This work was later lost but after Thánh Tông's order, Ngô Sĩ Liên, a member of the board of compilation, wrote his own version in 1479 which was finally resulted in the Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư.

[15] According to O. W. Wolters, Ngô Sĩ Liên respected the Confucian perspective to the extent that the highest praise he could lavish on a Vietnamese ruler (such as those of the Trần dynasty) was that his achievements could not be bettered by even the most famous Chinese emperors in antiquity.

Some remarked that Ngô Sĩ Liên fabricated the existence of the Hồng Bàng dynasty to serve political interests or because he wanted to emphasize the independence of Vietnam from China.