The legendary story is a genre of unique narrative prose of Vietnamese literature. Despite being influenced by Chinese literature, in the process of development of prose, it has become a representative for the Vietnamese short story in the middle ages. Approaching types of legendary stories can derive from many different aspects, especially aspect of culture will help us unravel the fundamental values oft content and art - a unique cultural phenomenon of Vietnamese literature. Therefore, from practical aspect, this typehas not only the specific contribution to classical prose but also the spread and echo to the trends, pencraft, and characteristics of authors' compositions and genres arising in modern Vietnamese literature.