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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 ...
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.
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 ...
Vietnamese dragons (Vietnamese: Rồng; chữ Nôm: 蠪; Sino-Vietnamese: Long; chữ Hán: 龍) are symbolic creatures in Vietnamese folklore and mythology. According to an ancient origin myth, the Vietnamese people are descended from a dragon and an Immortal. The dragon was symbolic of bringing rain, essential for agriculture.
[72] [73] In 1812, Gia Long issued the Gia Long Code, which was instituted based on the Ch'ing Code of China, replaced the previous Thánh Tông's 1480 Code. [ 74 ] [ 75 ] [ 69 ] In 1811, a coup d'état broke out in the Kingdom of Cambodia , a Vietnamese tributary state, forcing the pro-Vietnamese King Ang Chan II to seek support from Vietnam.
Guan Yu. Guan Yu ([kwán ỳ] ⓘ; d. January or February 220[a]), courtesy name Yunchang, was a Chinese military general serving under the warlord Liu Bei during the late Eastern Han dynasty of China. Along with Zhang Fei, he shared a brotherly relationship with Liu Bei and accompanied him on most of his early exploits.
Minh Mạng (Hanoi: [mïŋ˧ maːŋ˧˨ʔ]) or Minh Mệnh (Hanoi: [mïŋ˧ məjŋ̟˧˨ʔ], chữ Hán: 明 命, lit. "the bright favour of Heaven "; [1] 25 May 1791 – 20 January 1841; born Nguyễn Phúc Đảm, also known as Nguyễn Phúc Kiểu) was the second emperor of the Nguyễn dynasty of Vietnam, reigning from 14 February 1820 ...
Songwriter (s) Hou Dejian. " Descendants of the Dragon " ( simplified Chinese: 龙的传人; traditional Chinese: 龍的傳人; pinyin: lóng de chuán rén ), also translated as " Heirs of the Dragon ", is a Chinese song written by Hou Dejian. The song was first recorded and released by Lee Chien-Fu ( simplified Chinese: 李建复; traditional ...