Researcher Nguyen Dinh Tu is a senior scholar in the field of research on Southern Vietnam. He has made a deep impression through careful research and editing. Nguyen Dinh Tu's works and research are of high historical value with rare documents, ancient Chinese script documents which libraries are almost no longer preserving. This book is one of the elaborate studies of Nguyen Dinh Tu. He has been collecting from many sources, compiled into more than 600 pages. The author has listed and covered about the biography, career and merits of 262 Confucian bachelors in the South from 1816 - 1864. Through the book, readers can see the talents of the Confucianist who helped the king with many strategies from the border, economic development, reclamation in the South, recruiting ethnic minorities ... during the Nguyen Dynasty.