Read about Mạc Đĩnh Chi. What did he achieve? (Đọc về Mạc Đĩnh Chi. Ông đã đạt được gì?) Mạc Đĩnh Chi was a poor boy from a small village in Việt Nam during the Trần Dynasty. When he was studying in his hometown, he could not afford an oil lamp to read books at night. Therefore, he puireflies into eggshells and used their light to read the pages. With great dedication, he became a leading scholar in the village and later passed the palace examination as the highest-scoring graduate in 1304.