Legend

Stories in the Legend genre:

• The Legend of the Dragon King Jul 5, 2025

  

  In the deepest trenches of the South China Sea, where sunlight never penetrates and the water pressure would crush any mortal being, there lies a magnificent palace built from living coral and adorned with pearls the size of human heads. This is the underwater kingdom of Long Vuong—the Dragon King—the most powerful supernatural being in all of Vietnamese mythology.

  Long Vuong was not always a dragon. Centuries ago, he had been a mortal prince named Thuy Long, ruler of a coastal kingdom that prospered through fishing and sea trade. Prince Thuy Long was known throughout the land for his wisdom in governing, his skill as a warrior, and most importantly, his deep compassion for his people.

• The Tale of the Phoenix and the Dragon Jul 3, 2025

  

  In the beginning of time, when the world was young and the boundaries between heaven and earth were not yet firmly established, there lived two of the most magnificent beings ever created—Phung Hoang, the Phoenix of the Southern Skies, and Long Vuong, the Dragon of the Eastern Seas.

  Phung Hoang was a creature of incomparable beauty, with feathers that shimmered like liquid fire and a voice that could make flowers bloom out of season. She ruled over all the birds of heaven, commanded the warm winds that brought spring, and carried the power of the sun itself in her blazing plumage. When she flew across the sky, her passage brought renewal and rebirth to everything below.

• The Tale of the Moon Lady Jul 2, 2025

  

  Long ago, in the time when ten suns blazed simultaneously in the sky, scorching the earth and causing terrible suffering to all living creatures, there lived a skilled archer named Hou Yi, whose courage and marksmanship were legendary throughout the land.

  The ten suns, which were the sons of the Jade Emperor, had grown bored with their celestial duties and decided to appear in the sky all at once instead of taking turns as they were supposed to do. Their combined heat was so intense that rivers dried up, crops withered and died, and people and animals suffered terribly from the unbearable temperature.