Nong Zhigao

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Nong Zhigao (Chinese: 侬 智 高; Pinyin: Nóng Zhì Gāo) (Vietnamese: Nông Trí Cao) (? 1025-1055) is an epic hero of the Zhuang people in southern China, tracing back to a historical figure . According to the Annals History of the Song Dynasty - Guangyuanzhou Manzhuan (宋 史广源 州 蛮 传) in Quảng Nguyên (today's Cao Bằng ) in adulthood, he succeeded his father as the leader of the Zhuang, which at that time was oppressed by the Jiaozhi Empire, which was based in North Vietnam were. Due to the failure of a reference to the Chinese Empire of the Northern Song, Nong Zhigao led an uprising against Jiaozhi, which initially led to the establishment of the "Great Southern Country" in the southwest of today's Nanning . In later clashes with armies of the Northern Song, however, he and his supporters were defeated, so that they had to flee to Yunnan , Thailand and Laos .

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  1. Hilary Chappell: Sinitic grammar: Synchronic and Diachronic . Oxford University Press, 2001, ISBN 019829977X , p. 397 (Retrieved April 17, 2008): “Historical records relate that large contingents of soldiers, many from Shandong, settled in Guangxi, particularly after the southern expedition of General Di Quin to suppress a Zhuang uprising during the Song dynasty. (p.18) "