{ "project_id": "01072026-001-Nha-Tay-Son", "characters": [ { "name": "Nguyễn Nhạc", "role": "elder Tây Sơn leader and Thái Đức emperor", "appearance": "middle-aged áo vải leader, sturdy face, organizer temperament", "costume": "plain but authoritative Vietnamese rebel leader robe, later modest imperial robe", "temperament": "pragmatic, ambitious, commanding", "historical_cultural_context": "late 18th century Quy Nhơn / thành Hoàng Đế Tây Sơn", "negative_notes": "no Nguyễn dynasty court costume, no Qing queue" }, { "name": "Nguyễn Huệ / Quang Trung", "role": "central Tây Sơn military genius and emperor", "appearance": "strong sharp-eyed Vietnamese commander, dynamic posture, battle-worn confidence", "costume": "Tây Sơn command armor over áo vải roots, red-brown battle cloak, later imperial accents", "temperament": "decisive, thunder-fast, charismatic", "historical_cultural_context": "Rạch Gầm - Xoài Mút, Phú Xuân, Thăng Long, Ngọc Hồi - Đống Đa", "negative_notes": "no fantasy armor, no Chinese emperor robe" }, { "name": "Nguyễn Lữ", "role": "younger Tây Sơn brother", "appearance": "quieter younger commander, lean face, reserved bearing", "costume": "simple Tây Sơn officer clothing with light armor", "temperament": "reserved, less prominent, dutiful", "historical_cultural_context": "Tây Sơn brothers in Quy Nhơn and Gia Định campaigns", "negative_notes": "no exaggerated heroic pose" }, { "name": "Nguyễn Ánh / Gia Long trẻ", "role": "last Nguyễn lord claimant and future Gia Long", "appearance": "young determined noble survivor, cautious eyes, resilient posture", "costume": "late 18th century Nguyễn lord military robe, southern campaign clothing", "temperament": "patient, resilient, strategic", "historical_cultural_context": "Gia Định, exile, counteroffensive against Tây Sơn", "negative_notes": "no modern French uniform" }, { "name": "Chúa Nguyễn cuối thời", "role": "collapsing Đàng Trong court", "appearance": "anxious southern court nobles and mandarins", "costume": "Phú Xuân court robes, Nguyễn banners, late feudal setting", "temperament": "decaying authority, fearful", "historical_cultural_context": "Đàng Trong under Trương Phúc Loan and Nguyễn Phúc Thuần", "negative_notes": "no Gia Long imperial symbols" }, { "name": "Trương Phúc Loan", "role": "corrupt powerful minister of late Nguyễn court", "appearance": "rich heavyset mandarin, calculating face", "costume": "luxurious Đàng Trong mandarin robe, jewelry and official hat", "temperament": "greedy, arrogant, oppressive", "historical_cultural_context": "Phú Xuân court corruption before Tây Sơn uprising", "negative_notes": "no clownish caricature" }, { "name": "Chúa Trịnh / Phủ chúa", "role": "Đàng Ngoài Trịnh power bloc", "appearance": "northern lord and armed retainers in shadowed palace", "costume": "Trịnh lord robe, phủ chúa guards, banners", "temperament": "authoritarian but weakened", "historical_cultural_context": "Thăng Long / Đàng Ngoài before 1786", "negative_notes": "no Qing costume" }, { "name": "Vua Lê và triều Lê Trung hưng", "role": "symbolic Lê monarchy", "appearance": "solemn emperor in ceremonial throne yet politically powerless", "costume": "Lê imperial robes, faded dragon throne, old court", "temperament": "dignified, weak, constrained", "historical_cultural_context": "Thăng Long court under Trịnh dominance", "negative_notes": "no Nguyễn dynasty robe" }, { "name": "Lê Chiêu Thống", "role": "last Lê emperor who sought Qing aid", "appearance": "young worried king, conflicted expression", "costume": "late Lê ceremonial robe, exile cloak", "temperament": "desperate, legitimacy-seeking, tragic", "historical_cultural_context": "Bắc Hà crisis and Qing intervention 1788", "negative_notes": "no villain caricature" }, { "name": "Quân Thanh và Tôn Sĩ Nghị", "role": "Qing expeditionary command", "appearance": "Qing general and disciplined northern soldiers", "costume": "Qing armor, banners, winter campaign camp", "temperament": "arrogant, overconfident, foreign army", "historical_cultural_context": "Thăng Long occupation before Kỷ Dậu 1789", "negative_notes": "must be clearly Qing, not Vietnamese" }, { "name": "Quân Xiêm", "role": "Siamese intervention army", "appearance": "Southeast Asian royal soldiers and naval troops", "costume": "18th century Siamese armor, boats on Mekong rivers", "temperament": "foreign intervention force, chaotic in defeat", "historical_cultural_context": "Rạch Gầm - Xoài Mút 1785", "negative_notes": "not Chinese or European" }, { "name": "Dân chúng áo vải Tây Sơn", "role": "common people supporting revolt", "appearance": "Vietnamese farmers, laborers, mountain people, traders, mixed crowd", "costume": "simple áo vải, nón lá, work tools, rebel banners", "temperament": "angry, hopeful, resilient", "historical_cultural_context": "Bình Định, Quy Nhơn, divided Đại Việt", "negative_notes": "no modern clothes" }, { "name": "Sĩ phu Bắc Hà và quan lại", "role": "scholars and mandarins reacting to upheaval", "appearance": "Confucian scholars and officials, worried debate", "costume": "Northern scholar robes, scrolls, court hats", "temperament": "cautious, divided, tradition-bound", "historical_cultural_context": "Bắc Hà after Trịnh collapse", "negative_notes": "no modern glasses" }, { "name": "Công chúa Lê Ngọc Hân", "role": "Lê princess married to Nguyễn Huệ", "appearance": "young noblewoman, calm dignified face", "costume": "late Lê royal women attire, refined Vietnamese court silk", "temperament": "graceful, politically significant", "historical_cultural_context": "Thăng Long after Tây Sơn entered 1786", "negative_notes": "no fantasy princess dress" }, { "name": "Quân Tây Sơn", "role": "Tây Sơn soldiers and commanders", "appearance": "fast-moving áo vải army, disciplined yet rugged", "costume": "brown cloth uniforms, red sashes, spears, cannons, war drums", "temperament": "swift, fierce, coordinated", "historical_cultural_context": "campaigns from Quy Nhơn to Gia Định and Thăng Long", "negative_notes": "no modern guns except period muskets/cannons" } ] }