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In the book Vietnamese Tradition on Trial, 1920-1945 written by David G. Marr, an American Professor, told the story of Trieu Thi Trinh as follow: Trieu Thi Trinh was a 9-foot-tall (2.7 m) woman who had 3-foot-long (0.91 m) breasts. She also had a voice which sounded like a temple bell, and she could eat many rice pecks and walk 500 leagues per ...
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Both Triệu Ẩu and Bà Triệu translate as "Lady Trieu". "Triệu Thị Trinh" would seem to be a modern invention, possibly a hoax by 20th century historian Tran Trong Kim. A qualified Google Books search yields 83 post-1980 English-language hits for "Trieu Thi Trinh", 70 for "Lady Trieu", and 87 for "Trieu Au".
Triệu Thị Trinh or Lady Triệu: a female Vietnamese warrior (225 to 248 CE) also known as the Vietnamese Joan of Arc; Trieu Da General of Qin Dynasty who founded the Trieu Dynasty/Nanyue in Vietnam; Triệu Việt Vương (Triệu Quang Phục), independence leader in the 6th century; Andy Trieu (born 1984), Australian host, actor and ...
The former Qin commander Zhao Tuo (Trieu Da in Vietnamese) established the state of Nanyue in 204 BC and had conquered Âu Lạc in 180 BC, incorporating the Vietnamese realm into his own. [6] In 112 BC, Emperor Wu of Han dispatched soldiers against Nanyue and the kingdom was annexed in 111 BC during the ensuing Han conquest of Nanyue.
Traditional Vietnamese personal names generally consist of three parts, used in Eastern name order.. A family name (normally patrilineal, although matrilineality is possible, in cases such as divorce, children of a single mother, or if a child didn't want to have the father's surname.
'Zhao dynasty'; Vietnamese: Nhà Triệu; 茹趙) ruled the kingdom of Nanyue, which consisted of parts of southern China as well as northern Vietnam. Its capital was Panyu , in modern Guangzhou . The founder of the dynasty, Zhao Tuo (Triệu Đà), was a Chinese general [ 1 ] [ 2 ] from Hebei and originally served as a military governor under ...
[1] [8] However, the Americans who worked with Thi were less impressed. The CIA described Thi as "an opportunist and a man lacking strong convictions". [5] An American military advisor described Thi as "tough, unscrupulous, and fearless, but dumb". [5] There is some dispute as to whether Thi participated in the coup of his free choice. [9]