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Lạc Long Quân ("Dragon King of Lạc", also known as Sùng Lãm) is an ancient king of the Hồng Bàng dynasty of ancient Vietnam. 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 ...
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The three main avenues in the district, Lạc Long Quân, Âu Cơ, and An Dương Vương, were names of leaders of early Vietnamese civilization.The smaller streets in the district are named after renowned Vietnamese poets, artists and music composers, such as Xuân Diệu, Tô Ngọc Vân, Trịnh Công Sơn, Nguyễn Đình Thi and Đặng Thai Mai.
Kinh Dương Vương is believed to having married Thần Long, the daughter of Động Đình Quân (洞庭君; "Lord of Dongting") and given birth to Lạc Long Quân. [2] Today Kinh Dương Vương features with other ancient figures such as Thánh Gióng, Âu Cơ, Sơn Tinh and Thủy Tinh are a part of the elementary school texts. [3]
The story of Lạc Long Quân and Âu Cơ has been cited as the common creation myth of the Vietnamese people. The story details how two progenitors, the man known as the Lạc Long Quân and the woman known as the Âu Cơ, gave birth to a "hundred eggs, fifty of which hatched, settled on land and eventually became the Vietnamese people".
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 (lit. ' 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 Cơ is ...
Ngô Sĩ Liên (1993), Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư (in Vietnamese) (Nội các quan bản ed.), Hanoi: Social Science Publishing House; Trần Trọng Kim (1971), Việt Nam sử lược (in Vietnamese), Saigon: Center for School Materials; Taylor, K.W. (2013), A History of the Vietnamese, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780520074170
Pair of Cáo chín đuôi statues on the entrance to Lữ Gia temple, Gôi town, Vụ Bản, Nam Định. In the book Lĩnh Nam chích quái, the Hồ ly tinh (or Hồ tinh) is also mentioned with the image of an animal that causes harm to good people, then killed by Lạc Long Quân to eliminate harm to the people.