Abstract
In the north of the country, Lê Ngọc Hân has a place in the Vietnamese pantheon of national heroes as an exemplary wife who had great love for her husband and who was deeply grieved after his death. During the period in which Vietnam was divided (1954-1975), Marxist historians made use of this myth as a means of legalization of Quang Trung's rule and the Tây Sơn rebellion, whose legacy they acknowledged, thus denying the Nguyễn dynasty their right to rule.
However, the myth that was handed down in the South says that after the death of Quang Trung, which Lê Ngọc Hân herself was involved in, she married Gia Long, the first ruler of the new Nguyễn dynasty that had previously defeated the Tây Sơn dynasty; therefore, conversely, she is proof of the continuity of the Nguyễn rule.