12 Facts About Hung Vuong

The name Hung Vuong might have originally been a title bestowed on a chieftain.

The Hung Vuong was allegedly the head chieftain of Van Lang which at the time was composed of feudal communities of rice farmers.

Textual references in the early 20th century highlight that the Hung Vuong kings were already a key part of the Vietnamese collective memory.

Historians studying the Hung Vuong kings have suggested that developments from the 13th to the 15th centuries explain why there was a desire by Ðai Viet to incorporate the founding epic of the Hung Vuong kings into its history.

Hung Vuong brought the Confucian teacher Chu Van An into the capital, and the latter's emphasis on the classical beliefs of China and its antiquity set the intellectual tone of Thang-long.

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Canonization of the Hung Vuong kings founding myth was carried out by Ngo Si Lien in his compiling of a new history of the realm under the order of Emperor Le Thanh Tong, drawing upon popular sources.

The Hung Vuong kings were transformed into thanh hoang sanctified by imperial orders and by popular feeling stemming from long traditions of ancestor worship.

Over time, the worship of Hung Vuong kings evolved; they acquired sons-in-laws who became Mountain Spirits, when migrating south with the territorial expansion, and transformed themselves into Whale Spirits when near the sea.

Nguyen Thi Dieu argues that as the result of the meeting of the two currents, that of the state's mythographic construction and that of popular, village-based animistic worship, the Hung Vuong kings came to be venerated as the ancestral founders of the Viet nation in temples throughout the Red River Delta and beyond.

Hung Vuong kings seem to have been well embedded in Vietnamese collective memory by the 1950s in the RVN.

Analyses of the earliest sources on the Hung Vuong kings have illustrated problems with these sources that have been used as historical evidence of the existence of the Hung Vuong kings.

Celebrations of the Hung Vuong kings moved from the local to the provincial and then to the state levels.