INFORMATION ON MASTER’S THESIS

1. Full name : LÊ PHƯƠNG DUY 2. Sex: Male 3. Date of birth: 27 / November / 1987 4. Place of birth: Bắc Ninh City, Bắc Ninh Province 5. Admission decision number: 1528/QĐ-XHNV-KH&SĐH Dated 14 / October / 2009 6. Changes in academic process: None 7. Official thesis title: Summation on the four rites of Bui Huy Tung 8. Major: Sino – Nom 9. Code: 60220104 10. Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Nguyen Kim Son, VNU’s Vice President 11. Summary of the findings of the thesis: - Briefing on the theoretic angles of the subject Home-Rites Study (Four-Rites Study), such as: Origins of the rites, inner meanings of the term Gia Lễ, inner structure of Gia lễ, summation on the foundation and developing history of the Chinese Gia-Lễ Study, statistics and Categorization of Gia-Lễ documentary sources in Vietnam, current situation of Gia-Lễ studies in Vietnam and overseas, etc, so to create a debatement basis on the subject before studying the subject’s content. - Researches on physical description of the original work, the work’s layout, providing statistic and classification of the Tứ-Lễ-Lược-Tập’s documentary sources, study on the conceiving circumstances of the work, writing style and viewpoint on the Rites study of Author Bùi Huy Tùng. - Studying, analizing, and evaluating on the debating and customary angles the seven home-rites in the work Tứ Lễ Lược Tập, which are: Thông lễ (popular rites), Hạ thọ lễ (Longevity Celebration), Quan lễ (Bonnet-donning Celebration, or Coming-of-age Initiation), Hôn lễ (Marriage), Tang lễ (Funeral), Tế lễ (Offering methods) and Gia quy (Family regulations). - Providing the Pronunciation, translation and explication on the work Tứ Lễ Lược Tập. 12. Practical applicability: This study on Tứ Lễ Lược Tập not only provides contributions and facilitations to future researchs and studies on Vietnamese rites, customes and folklore; but also serves as referential guidances to fulfill the needs for ritual understanding, which has become imperative in the society today. 13. Further research directions: Continue the studies on a broader basis, and on the position and roles of the subject relating to other records on Gia Lễ in Vietnam. Reseach on the formation and development of Vietnamese Gia Lễ. Study the special characteristics of Vietnamese Gia Lễ, and find the differences and similarities in comparision to its Chinese, Japanese and Korean counterparts. Encouraging and expanding the inter-field studies between Gia Le study and other studies, like in culture, folklore, social, etc. 14. Thesis-related publications: N/A