Trưng sisters
The Trưng sisters , Trưng Trắc ( Hán tự : 徵 側) and Trưng Nhị (徵 貳) led a revolt against Chinese rule in what is now Vietnam in the 1st century AD . Today they are considered national heroines in Vietnam.
In 111 BC The Chinese Han dynasty under Emperor Wu annexed the north of what is now Vietnam, Nam Việt , which was the land of the Lạc Việt (tribe of today's Vietnamese), as Jiaozhi Prefecture. As a result, there was strong pressure to sinize .
In 40 AD the people rebelled under the leadership of the Trưng sisters, who ruled from Mê-Linh (near today's Hanoi ). Emperor Guangwu sent his general Ma Yuan , who managed to put down the revolt by 43. It is said that the sisters drowned themselves in the Hát Giang River (today: Sông Đáy) in order to avoid capture.
literature
- John Villiers : Southeast Asia before the colonial era (= Fischer Weltgeschichte . Volume 18). Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1965, p. 237 f.
Web links
- Trung Trac and Trung Nhi ( English ) Retrieved on November 19, 2013.