The importance of the "Luc Van Tien" derives from the role that it played in mobilizing the southern peasants to fight against the foreign invasion, and it led peasants to make sacrifices for `their` country. The new stage that appeared in the mid-19th century in southern Vietnam, where peasants were mobilized to fight to the death for `their` country by the power of the pen, provided a precedent for the role that literature would play in the formidable nationalistic movements that would be prominent during the 20th century, not only in Vietnam but in countries across East Asia.