Kinh Dương Vương
Kinh Dương Vương ("King Kinh Dương", chữ Hán : 涇陽 王), personal name Lộc Tục , is one of the ancestors of the Vietnamese in Vietnamese mythology . He is said to be in the 3rd millennium BC. Chr. Have prevailed.
According to the Vietnamese legend of origin , he is a younger son of Đế Minh ("Emperor Ming"), who in turn is a great-grandson of the great emperor Thần Nông (Chinese: Shennong ). His mother is Vụ Tiên Nữ , the personification of a constellation above northern Vietnam, which the father met on a trip to Ngũ Lĩnh ( Nan Ling ).
Kinh Dương was chosen by his father Đế Minh as his successor because of his intelligence, but he voluntarily renounced the imperial throne in favor of his older half-brother Đế Nghi . Moved by this selflessness, the father named Kinh Dương king of a southern empire - a coastal region that bore the name Xích Quỷ (literally “Red Devil”) and is probably identical with Lĩnh Nam ( Lingnan ).
Kinh Dương Vương married Thần Long Nữ , the daughter of the dragon ruler of Dongting Lake ( Động Đình Quân ) - possibly an allusion to the state of Chu - and had with her the son Lạc Long Quân . He later succeeded him, married the fairy Âu Cơ and finally became the actual founder of the first Vietnamese state Văn Lang ( Hồng-Bàng period ).
There was thus a northern (Chinese) and a southern (Vietnamese) dynasty line. The northern line, i.e. the descendants of the Đế Nghi , was defeated and ousted by the Yellow Emperor after a few generations . According to this historical interpretation, the descendants of Kinh Dương Vương, i.e. the Vietnamese rulers, consequently had an older and morally better claim to rule than the later Chinese emperors.
In today's Vietnam, Kinh Dương Vương is venerated in two places: On Mount Hồng Lĩnh in the Hà Tĩnh province - he is said to have ruled from here at times - and in Đại Đồng Thành in the Thuận Thành district of the Bắc Ninh province - this is where he is supposed to be Grave.
In contrast to the legend about his son, which is presumably based on ancient folk traditions, the lineage myth about Kinh Dương Vương was probably first created by historians of the Lê dynasty in the 14th and 15th centuries . His legend is dealt with particularly in the collection of stories Lĩnh Nam chích quái and Ngô Sĩ Liên towards the end of the 15th century. It was the Vietnamese court scholar after years of brutal Ming -Fremdherrschaft 1407-1427 while primarily concerned to establish the independence of the country against China historically and represent the Vietnamese empire than the older and better.
literature
- Nghia M. Vo: Legends of Vietnam: An Analysis and Retelling of 88 Tales , McFarland, 2012, pp. 57–61 (Chapter IX.)
- Keith Weller Taylor: The Birth of Vietnam , University of California Press, 1976, pp. 303-305 (Appendix A)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Taylor: The Birth of Vietnam , p. 304
- ↑ vietlandmarks.com: Lăng & đền thờ Kinh Dương Vương (tomb and temple of Kinh Dương Vương)
- ↑ giadinh.net.vn: Đi tìm thứ bậc cho Kinh Dương Vương (February 14, 2010, accessed August 2017)