summarse The Lu learned Confucian characters when he was 8 years old, learned Chinese characters when he was 10. After his brother died, he was allowed to return to Haiphong to stay with his mother. In Hai Phong, he studied privately with Vu Dinh Quy's father, his first close friend. Soon after, he applied to attend the Junior class of the newly opened École communale in Alley.[7] In 1924, he passed the Primary School (cepfi), then fell ill for a year. At that time, at the age of 17, The Lu was married to Nguyen Thi Khuong, his wife who was 2 years older than him. [8] [9]