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Topic: An Duong Vuong


In the News (Sun 27 May 12)

  
  History of Vietnam
In the year 208, the fiftieth year of An Duong Vuong's reign, the princess connived in a plot with her husband, so the story goes, and the pair managed to make off with the magic crossbow which had heretofore made her father, King An Duong Vuong, invincible.
An attempt to wrest back power from the Chinese was made by a prince of the Tran family, who raised an army and rallied the people for a time, proclaiming himself Emperor Gian Dinh in 1407.
The North continued to be torn by wars and intrigues under the tyrannical rule of the Trinh; and an abortive plot by the Le king and one of Trinh Tung's sons against the Trinh ended in Trinh Tung's killing his disloyal son as well as the Le king.
www.geocities.com /Yosemite/7915/VN-Hist.html   (8728 words)

  
 An Duong Vuong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An Dương Vương burnt incense, prayed, made offerings, and evoked all the gods of those days to help him.
An Dương Vương had Cao Lỗ, his weaponry engineer, build a crossbow incorporating this claw.
An Dương Vương reined in his horse and confronted his daughter, who was in tears.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/An_Duong_Vuong   (1402 words)

  
 Vietmedia: Vietnam Music Lyrics Culture Chat Midi Picture Image News History
One of King Thuc Vuong's nephews, Thuc Phan, profited from the degeneracy and debauchery of Hung Vuong XVIII to invade and conquer the Van Lang Kingdom in 257, B.C., thus ending the Hong Bang dynasty.
An Duong Vuong protected his reign by constructing a spiral-shaped citadel, which was called Loa Thanh (the remaining ruins of Loa Thanh still exist in the village of Co Loa, Phu Yen province).
An Duong Duong beheaded My Chau, his daughter, and drowned himself in the sea before the invaders could reach his citadel.
www.vietmedia.com /history/?L=anduongvuong.html   (432 words)

  
 vietnam - history - root - culture - tradition
under the reign of king kinh duong vuong, the xich quy kingdom stretched from the near bank of the yang tse kiang to the southernmost area now called quang tri, adjacent to ho ton (champa), including the yunnan, kweichow, hunan, kwangsi and kwangtung provinces of china.
succeeding hung quoc vuong was hung hoa vuong who was succeeded by his eldest son hung hy vuong and the latter by hung huy.
lang lieu came into power under the royal appellation of hung chieu vuong and was succeeded by hung vi vuong, hung dinh vuong, hung uy vuong, hung trinh vuong, hung vu vuong, hung viet vuong, hung anh vuong, hung trieu vuong, hung tao vuong and hung nghi vuong.
www.loveofasiavietnam.com /vietnam/historical_roots.html   (1178 words)

  
 About Vietnam
Kinh Duong Vuong ruled the Xich Quy kingdom, which comprised an area from the Blue river to the north, Szechuan to the west, the sea to the east, and central Viet Nam to the south.
From 257 BC to 208 BC the Au Lac Kingdom was ruled by An Duong Vuong.
From an early age, children are given strict, yet nurturing, guidance with rigorous examinations at set intervals through the years.
commongroundjourneys.com /vietnam.php   (1739 words)

  
 An Duong Vuong (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
An Duong Vuong Temple is located in Co Loa village, Song Anh district, Hanoi.
Th­îng Temple is where the ceremony is performed with five-colour flags, a couple of pink horses and a couple of white horses on the two sides, the left and the right.
In the center of the altar with an incense table is placed and loaded with the offerings, a glass box containing a pair of mandarin's boots and the King's weapons.
www.acjc.edu.sg.cob-web.org:8888 /Spectra/VibrantCulture/Vietnam/anduongvuong.html   (439 words)

  
 Kings and Emperors of Vietnam   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
At first, the United States had been reluctant to support the reimposition of French colonial rule, but the growing Communist threat made President Truman of the opinion that the French were the lesser of two evils.
After trying an all out invasion of the South 1972, the Communists accepted a peace settlement; but then, once American forces were safely at home, a general offensive in 1975 bagged the country.
An excellent movie, largely faithful to the book, We Were Soldiers goes out of its way to portray the (North) Vietnamese solidiers as human, brave, sincere, and dedicated.
asiarecipe.com /vietkings.html   (1580 words)

  
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Bo Cai Dai Vuong (Emperor the Great Father) (791 -802) : Phung Hung, a local official and son of a former Mai Hac De's warrior, was very famous for kind-hearted and strength (he once killed a tiger to save a life of a man).
Ngo Quyen (Ngo Vuong) (939 - 944) / Duong Tam Kha (Duong Binh Vuong) (944 - 950) / Ngo Xuong Van (Nam Tan Vuong) (950 - 965) and Ngo Xuong Ngap (Thien Sach Vuong) (951 - 965).
In one of the such battles in 965, Nam Tan Vuong was killed and Ngo Dynasty collapsed, the country was fractioned into 12 regions with 12 warlords ruled.
www.fortunecity.com /victorian/woodcut/19/v6.html   (1839 words)

  
 History
The various subgroups of the Pre-Dong Son culture was eventually unified in the northern areas of Central Vietnam and became the Dong Son culture.
The victory of the resistance against the Sung invasion led by Le Hoan in 981 was an eloquent proof of that statement.
He led an army and marched north to defeat the Qin troops of 290,000 men in Thang Long on the first lunar month of 1789.
www.angelfire.com /hi4/hoangtu19/history.htm   (1667 words)

  
 Aquatic Traditions
The earliest traditions of the Vietnamese people, as revealed in the Linh-Nam Chich Quai, an accumulation of lore edited in the fifteenth century, are associated with the Hung kings who ruled the kingdom of Van-lang.
Under the reign of King Kinh Duong Vuong, the Xich Quy kingdom fully stretched along the Bien Dong (Eastern Sea) from the near bank of the Yang Tse Kiang to the southernmost area now called Quang Tri, adjacent to Ho Ton (Champa), including the Yunnan, Kweichow, Hunan, Kwangsi and Kwangtung provinces of China.
An Duong Vuong settled in Phong Khe (now in the district of Dong Anh, province of Phuc Yen).
members.tripod.com /luotsong/aquatict.htm   (4433 words)

  
 Vietnam's Ancient Past: Co-Loa and Its Legend
An-Duong Vuong was the strongest of the overlords (north of today's Hanoi) who established a new center of power and built a citadel.
It identifies this center of power as military in nature, reinforces the record of conquest in its formation, and suggests maintenance of power was based on the threat of force.
Professor Taylor writes that the chicken is the one thousand-year-old symbol of power for China and that the turtle is a symbol of the Chinese god of war, Chen Wu.
www.richmond.edu /~ebolt/history398/Co-LoaAndItsLegend.html   (536 words)

  
 Vets With A Mission - Origin of Vietnam Name
Under the title of King An Duong Vuong, Thuc Pham established the new kingdom of Au Lac and installed his capital at Phuc An where a spiral citadel was built.
An administration incorporating both the reigning King and the heir to the title of the previous reign was officially adopted to ensure its continuity and prevent any dispute between the two families.
The Bishop of Adran saw an opportunity to expand the church's influence in the post Tay Son era and negotiated a promise of military aid for Nguyen Anh from the French Government in exchange for territorial and commercial rights.
www.vwam.com /vets/history/vietnam.html   (5980 words)

  
 The Writers Post - Volume 8 Issue 1 Jan 2006 - Kinh Duong Vuong (via CobWeb/3.1 planet03.csc.ncsu.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kinh Duong Vuong's Chiec Mat Na Cuoi, the first collection of short stories, was published by Van Moi Publisher in 1997.
He caught an ant, picked the white stuff it had carried and squashed it between his first finger and thumb.
Its high-pitched song with an unchanged pattern of modulation was a word of encouragement to him.
www.thewriterspost.net.cob-web.org:8888 /V8I1_ff2_kinhduongvuong.htm   (4726 words)

  
 BVOM.COM - Vietnamese History
In an attempt to usurp the throne, Thai su Tran Thu Do sent Tran Canh, his 8-years old nephew to serve Chieu Hoang as a courtier and a boy friend and Chieu Hoang was very fond of him.
Xa was ruled by an official from the Court and an elected council.
An ambush at Chi Lang gateway in which Liu Shan was headcut, had stopped the intervention from China.
www.bvom.com /resource/vn_history.asp?pContent=Middle_Ages   (8478 words)

  
 Nhan Dan --- Travel
It is aimed to show the respect and gratitude of posterity to the nation founding services of the ancestor and, at the same time, remind children of heightening vigilance needed to repel foreign aggressors.
A couple of stone horses, one red and one white with embroidered saddles, stand on both sides of the outside part of the gate of King An Duong Vuong temple.
When the procession reaches the temple, a miniature royal court, containing an incense burner, a stone tablet, and the funeral oration, is put in front of the two altars.
www.nhandan.com.vn /english/travel/170205/coloa.htm   (637 words)

  
 THE WRITERS POST - Volume 8 - Number 1 Jan 2006
This electronic literary magazine was launched on July 1999, with an emphasis on what the Wordbridge intends: to bring to readers who may want to read the literary works originally written in the Vietnamese language for long entrenched behind the barrier of language.
Kinh Duong Vuong, pseudonym of Nguyen Tuan Khanh, artist, poet, and short story writer, born in 1941, known as Rung for his painting, Dung Nham/Co Dong for poetry, and Kinh Duong Vuong for short story.
An asterisk (*) before "Pubs" stands for "His", indicating the author is a male, otherwise, a woman writer.
www.thewriterspost.net /TWP_V8I1.htm   (4138 words)

  
 BVOM.COM - Vietnam Cultural Feature
An Duong Vuong gave his country the name of Au Lac and chose Co Loa as the capital.
At the beginning of the festivities, the village patriarch reads a ceremonial speech while an elder experienced farmer symbolically is sloughing the rice field.
Nguyen Trung Truc Temple festival is held at Long Kien Commune, Cho Moi Dist., An Giang province, in memory of Nguyen Trung Truc, a commander of the revolt during the war against the French in the south.
www.bvom.com /resource/vn_cultural.asp?pContent=Calendar_Festival   (3978 words)

  
 History
An idealized portrait of an ancient Vietnamese warrior.
Kenneth Hoffman is an Associate Professor of Communication at Seton Hall University.
An American artist's view of the Vietnam War.
www.ibiblio.org /vietnam/history.html   (304 words)

  
 Dishes
Becoming King An Duong Vuong, he united the Au Viet people of the highlands and the delta-dwelling Au Lac people.
They include a temple dedicated to Cao Lo, a talented general of King An Duong Vuong, and Co Loa Temple, built in the 18th century on the foundation of Ngu Trieu Di Quy where King An Duong Vuong gave audience.
Inside the temple, which was repaired in 1687 and 1893, stands a King An Duong Vuong bronze statue cast in 1897.
www.nhandan.com.vn /english/travel/171105/2000.htm   (766 words)

  
 Quan Thanh Temple - Quan Thanh Temple in Hanoi, Vietnam travel and tourism information by Vietnam Trip .com
In Vietnam's legend, he was a saint who had earned the merits of assisting Thuc Phan (future King An Duong Vuong) in getting rid of ghost spirit during the construction of CoLoa Citadel.
An Duong Vuong Temple in CoLoa Citadel (Dong Anh district) is also named Thuong Temple.
Inside it, there are An Duong Vuong's bronze statue (cast in 1897) and a big arbalest symbolizing the magic arbalest in the old days.
www.vietnamtrip.com /quan_thanh_temple.html   (415 words)

  
 Vietnam - Dynasties And Emperors - Asia Finest Discussion Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
At first, for their own benefit, the Han retained the system of lac hau and lac tuong, the civilian and military chiefs of the early communities; little by little, they replaced them with functionaries appointed by the court who administered the country down to province and district levels (there were three provinces and 56 districts).
Shaped in a country subject to the harsh domination of the Han imperialists, this feudal class was opposed in some aspects to the court and sided with the population.
After Duong Dinh Nghe died, murdered by one of his aides, the fight was led by Ngo Quyen, who in 938 clashed with a Southern Han expeditionary corps approaching by sea.
www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=9440   (4544 words)

  
 Co-Loa Tour   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
My visit to Hanoi in January 1991 included a brief tour north of the city to Co-Loa, the site of an early Vietnamese kingdom known as the Kingdom of Au-Lac.
Over long periods of time, northern Vietnam was an area of maximum Chinese influence, but Co-Loa was once more the Vietnamese capital under the Ngo Dynasty (939-965 C.E.).
The Chinese, however, were long a formidable neighbor, and Co-Loa was difficult to defend, being located on vast plains.
www.richmond.edu /~ebolt/history398/Co-LoaTour.html   (250 words)

  
 Triệu Việt Vương - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Triệu Quang Phục was the first general to understand and make extensive use of guerilla and attrition warfare methods as a means of to decimating and slowly demoralizing the enemy.
Triệu Quang Phục withdraw his troops to an undeveloped region, full of swamps, muddy area called đàm Dạ Trạch.
Lý Thiên Bảo died of an illness in 555 and left no heirs, making Triệu the effective head of the nation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trieu_Viet_Vuong   (450 words)

  
 HonoluluAdvertiser.com - Wireless
Thousands of years ago in Asia, there was a land known as Xich Quy, country of red demons, ruled by the descendants of the Yellow Kings of China.
King Kinh Duong Vuong, a descendant of the last Yellow King, married a daughter of the river lands who was a water goddess, and among her many powers was the ability to transform herself into a sea dragon.
Kinh Duong Vuong and his queen lived by the sea, and there they raised a son they named Sung Lam.
the.honoluluadvertiser.com /palm/2005/Jun/23/il/il06a.html   (861 words)

  
 vietnam: then&now   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Complying to historical folklore, De Minh, a third generation descendant of Shen Nong, fled to the south of the Five Mounts and married Princess Vu Tien.
Their son, Loc Tuc became Kinh Duong Vuong, King of the Kinh and Doung Territory.
He named himself King Hung Vuong, and Lac Viet was renamed Vac Lang.
library.thinkquest.org /25734/h/history1.html   (275 words)

  
 Chopstick Cinema
Under the rule of Kinh Duong Vuong the upper kingdom spread north to the Blue river; South to what would later become Hue, west to Sseutch'ouan, and east to the sea, while the lower kingdom under the rule of the Bang dynasty occupied Tonquin and the North-Central region.
Fearing an opportunity for Communist North Vietnamese forces to prevail, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson sanctioned the bombing of North Vietnam and the placement of U.S. troops in South Vietnam.
Enclosed was an extremely apologetic note, explaining how one of her children had accidentally rolled over on the remote control while the videotape was in the VCR and taped over the first few seconds of the film.
weblogs.thingsasian.com /tablogs/page/cheiter/20040509   (3106 words)

  
 VietNamNet Bridge
After that, Trieu Da attacked King An Duong Vuong’s country, and the poor King was defeated, and fled with his daughter.
When the father and daughter came to the riverside, Kim Qui God appeared and revealed the trail of feathers, forcing King An Duong Vuong to kill his daughter My Chau and jump into the river.
He proclaimed himself as Binh Dinh Vuong (King of Pacification) and led the resistance against the aggressors for 10 years and regained national independence.
english.vietnamnet.vn /features/2005/04/406255   (1282 words)

  
 Vietnamese History & Legends
After ending the Hung Vuong dynasty, King An Duong Vuong unified the two countries of Au Viet and Lac Viet (some books have said Ba Thøc and Van Lang.
An Duong Vuong is probably a descendant of the Ba Thøc royal family and was known as Thøc Phán An Duong Vuong) into a single country that he named Au Lac.
Legend has it that if one were to wash a pearl from the eastern sea (South China Sea) with water from this well, its brilliance will increase tenfold.
www.vietspring.org /legend/magiccrossbow.html   (1448 words)

  
 Golden Age of Vietnam under the Hung Kings
Vietnam was 4877 years old on April 28, 1999 (the tenth of the third lunar month) since Chinese Emperor Ti Ming's heir-designate Prince Loc Tuc came into power in the meridional territory of China in 2880 B.C. after he conceded the right to run China to his brother, Prince Ti Yi, according to Vietnam's legend.
Loc Tuc inaugurated the earliest monarchical regime in Vietnam with the Hong Bang Dynasty, as the first ruling family by heirdom in Vietnam's history.
Apparently, due to the weather up North not being as warm as it is now, the Chinese could not grow rice and they discovered rice when they visited what was the Hung Vuong empire of those days, which covers most of southern China.
www.vietspring.org /legend/goldenage.html   (1020 words)

  
 Prince Hotel, Hue Hotels, Vietnam Hotels
Centrally located in the heart of Southern acces of Hue City, near the Ngu Binh Water Park, on the way to Phu Bai airport.
Prince Hotel offers visitors an ideal acces to places of tourist interest and famous landcapes of Hue - the old charming capital.
Our friendly experienced staff is well trained to assure visitors a comfortable, interesting and unforgettable stay in a truly Hue.
www.vietnamhotels.biz /prince_hue/index.htm   (193 words)

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