Kinh Dương Vương

According to Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, a book written in a Confucian perspective, Kinh Duong Vuong originates from China: Emperor Ming was told to be the great-great-grandson of the mythological Chinese ruler Shennong, patrolled south to the Nanling mountains (Hunan, China), settled down and married Vụ Tiên Nữ (鶩僊女),[4] then gave birth to a son of a natural intelligence named Lộc Tục (祿續).

After Emperor Ming passed the throne to his eldest son, Emperor Li(釐) to be king of the North, and Loc Tuc was appointed to be king of the South in the name of Kinh Duong Vuong (涇陽王). According to Dai Viet Su Ky Toan Thu, Kinh Duong Vuong was king and ruled from about 2879 BC onwards.[5] The territory of the country under Kinh Duong Vuong was large, north to Yangtze river (including Dong Dinh lake area), south to Ho Ton country (Chiem Thanh), east to Dong Hai (東海, part of the Pacific Ocean) and to the west is Ba Thuc (巴蜀, Sichuan, China today). Lĩnh Nam chích quái recorded the legend that the king expelled the god of Xuong Cuong vigorously, killing the people. He married the daughter of the King of Dong Dinh (洞庭) Lake, named Than Long (神龍), ^Sgave birth to a son named Sung Lam(崇纜), and succeeded the throne as King Lac Long Quan .

In the book Khâm Định Việt, it writes:

Well, looking up the old history of the title Kinh Duong Vuong Lac Long Quan in 'hong bang thi ky(鴻龐氏記)' from ancient times in the wild, the author based on nothing and does not fear that he is not reliable enough, and he is in side with the 'Lieu Nghi Story' of The novelist of the Tang dynasty which he took as evidence.

— the national history publishing of the nguyen dynasty [6]

While collecting historical records by early historians, King Tu Duc of the nguyen dynasty identified these stories as "stories about ghost buffalo, snake god, myth without standard" and determined to exclude Kinh Duong and Lac Long from their own history as this did not correspond with the confucian ideals of the country.

Associate professor Liam christopher kelley of south east asian studies commented,

Over the centuries, the traditions they [historians] create have become second nature. In fact, in the past half century, under the influence of nationalism , these invented Traditions have become and are becoming irreversible truths.[7]

Worshiping Kinh Duong Vuong in Vietnam is not as popular as worshiping Shen nong , the god who is Hung Vuong 's ancestor and a very worshiped god in Vietnam's agricultural beliefs ; Đàn Xã Tắc(壇社稷) was established annually by feudal dynasties to worship .

Thuong Lang communal house in Minh Hoa commune, Hung Ha district, Thai Binh province is the oldest relic worshiping Kinh Duong Vuong; Legend has it since the Dinh dynasty .

The Kinh Duong Vuong Mausoleum and Temple(locally called Lăng và Đền thờ) in Bac Ninh have long been classified by the Vietnamese feudal dynasties as shrines to worship the emperors, each time the National Ceremony will bring to the army to worship and worship people solemnly. In 2013 , Bac Ninh province announced a plan to preserve, embellish and promote the population of national historical and cultural relics of Lang and Kinh Duong Vuong Temple with a total investment of more than 491 billion VND.[8] The project is divided into 4 main construction categories, including: relic conservation space, focusing on repairing and embellishing the relics of the Mausoleum and Kinh Duong Vuong Temple, temple grounds, tomb gardens; relic value space includes: ancestral monument, cultural festival square, cultural display ... accompanied by ancillary services to develop spiritual cultural tourism, attracting tourists and technical infrastructure, leveling, roads, electricity lines.[9] At present, the Kinh Duong Vuong tomb and temple relic is worshiped in A Lu village, Dai Dong Thanh commune, Thuan Thanh district , Bac Ninh province .

Many Han Nom and historical researchers recently suspected Kinh Duong Vuong being a legendary figure originating in the novel of Lieu Nghi . Tran Trong Duong, a historical researcher in an article in 2013 pointed out that:[10]

.the Kinh Duong Vuong story has a copy from the novel Lieu Nghi story (柳毅 傳) by Ly Trieu Uy composed in the Tang dynasty. The story can be summarized as follows: Lieu Nghi is a failed contestant, on the way he meets a beautiful young goat herd with a crippled appearance. The woman said that she was the daughter of the Dragon King in Dong Dinh Lake, who married the second son of Kinh Xuyen, but was mistreated and went to hunt goats. your scene. Liu Yi brought the letter to the Dragon Palace. Long Vuong's younger brother, Qiantang, was so angry that he killed Kinh Xuyen's son, saved him, and intended to marry Lieu Nghi. Nghi refused, please return, the Dragon King bestowed a lot of gold and silver jewels. After Lieu Nghi got married, every time he got married he would die. The daughter of the Dragon King, seeing that, recalled the old fate, She wanted to repay her, she became a beautiful girl and married Lieu Nghi as her husband. After the couple were successful.

This view is said to be consistent with many historians of the Nguyen dynasty (for example, Ngo Thi Si in Dai Viet's history of Tien Bien,[11] or in Khâm Định Việt's history of epilogue [12] ). Han Nom and historical researchers support it.

S.^ But according to Ngo Si Lien written in the Lac Long Quan section on page 2, The descendants of Than Nong Thi Emperor Minh took lady vu and gave birth to Kinh Duong Vuong , that is the ancestor of Bach Viet. Vuong married a daughter Than Long born Lac Long Quan , meaning that Dong Dinh Quan named Than Long, not his daughter's name Than Long.