Abstract
Transvestite ventriloquism, wich reflected characteristics of gender in Vietnamese culture, had appeared in Vietnamese poetry during the medieval era and achived new shade in the early twentieth century. The poem poem Mua xuan (Spring Rain by Nguyen Binh viewed from the theory of cultural poetics, shows both traditional tranvestite ventriloquism and individual romanticism.
Key words: Ventriloquism, gender in Vietnamese culture, poem Spring rain, romanticism.