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Âu Cơ statue at Hùng Temple, Tao Đàn, Hồ Chí Minh City. Âu Cơ (chữ Hán: 甌姬; IPA: [əu˧ kəː˧]) was, according to the creation myth of the Vietnamese people, an immortal mountain snow goddess who married Lạc Long Quân ("Dragon Lord of Lạc"), and bore an egg sac that hatched a hundred children known collectively as Bách Việt, ancestors to the Vietnamese people. Âu ...
Quân was the son of Kinh Dương Vương, the king of Xích Quỷ. He is the main figure in the Vietnamese myth of Lạc Long Quân - Âu Cơ. According to the myth, Lạc Long Quân married Âu Cơ, a mountain goddess. She gives birth to a sac containing 100 eggs from which 100 children were born; this is the origin of the Vietnamese peoples.
Vietnamese mythology. Vietnamese mythology (Vietnamese: Thần thoại Việt Nam 神話越南) comprises folklore, national myths, legends, or fairy tales from the Vietnamese people with aspects of folk religion in Vietnam. [1][2][3] Vietnamese folklore and oral traditions may have also been influenced by historical contact with neighbouring ...
An Dương Vương (Vietnamese: [ʔaːn zɨəŋ vɨəŋ]), personal name Thục Phán, was the founding king and the only ruler of the kingdom of Âu Lạc, an ancient state centered in the Red River Delta. As the leader of the Âu Việt tribes, he defeated the last Hùng king of the state of Văn Lang and united its people – known as the ...
Thần Trụ Trời (Chữ Nôm: 神柱𡗶) or Ông Trụ Trời (Chữ Nôm: 翁柱𡗶) (lit. "Pillar of Heaven"), with some versions calling him Khổng Lồ (孔路, lit. "The Giant"), is the first god in some traditions of Vietnamese mythology , being the one who created the world by building pillars to separate heaven and earth.
e. Ho Chi Minh Thought (Vietnamese: Tư tưởng Hồ Chí Minh) is a political philosophy that builds upon Marxism–Leninism and the ideology of Vietnamese revolutionary Ho Chi Minh. It was developed and codified by the Communist Party of Vietnam and formalised in 1991. [ 1 ][ 2 ] The term is used to cover political theories and policies ...
Lạc bird. Image of a Lạc bird at Tao Đàn Park, Ho Chi Minh City. Lạc bird (Vietnamese: chim Lạc, Lạc điểu, Chinese: 雒鳥) [1] is a mythical creature in Vietnamese culture and a national bird of Vietnam. [2][3][4]
Founded in 257 BCE by a figure called Thục Phán (King An Dương), it was a merger of Nam Cương (Âu Việt) and Văn Lang (Lạc Việt) but succumbed to the state of Nanyue in 179 BCE, which, itself was finally conquered by the Han dynasty. [8][9] Its capital was in Cổ Loa, present-day Hanoi, in the Red River Delta.