Chu Van An is a good teacher and physician of Vietnam under Tran. Chu Van An was originally from Van Thon village, Quang Liet commune, Thanh Dam district (now belonging to Van village, Thanh Liet commune, Thanh Tri district, Hanoi). Ong was a mandarin for a time, then retired to hiding, taught and wrote books until he died. He was considered by the Dai Viet Su Ky Toan Thu to be the ancestor of Vietnamese Confucian scholars.

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Chu Văn An là một nhà giáo, thầy thuốc giỏi của Việt Nam dưới thới Trần. Chu Văn An quê ở làng Văn Thôn, xã Quang Liệt, huyện Thanh Đàm (nay thuộc xóm Văn, xã Thanh Liệt, huyện Thanh Trì, Hà Nội). ông làm quan một thời gian sau đó lui về ở ẩn, dạy học và viết sách cho đến chết. Ông được Đại Việt Sử Ký Toàn Thư đánh giá là ông tổ của các nhà nho nước Việt.

Chu Van An was originally from Van Thon village, Quang Liet commune, Thanh Dam district (now belonging to Van village, Thanh Liet commune, Thanh Tri district, Hanoi). He is a righteous man who once passed Thai students but did not go to the mandarin but opened a teaching school in Huynh Cung village, across the To Lich river. He has made great contributions to propagating and educating Confucian moral thought into Vietnam. King Tran Minh Tong (1300–1357) invited him to become a Quoc Tu Giam enterprise, teaching Prince Vuong Vuong, the future King Tran Hien Tong. In the life of Du Tong, seeing that the right to do many immoral things, he offered That beheaded in order to slay seven names of flattery, but the king did not listen. He was discouraged from the mandarins of Phuong Hoang Mountain (Chi Linh, Hai Duong), took the name Tieu hide (who gathered firewood) to teach and write books until his death.