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Trưng Sisters Summon the Bách Việt (Baak Jyut) / 徵氏姐妹感召百粤

The rebellion of the sisters Trưng Trắc and Trưng Nhị (40-43 CE) is revered in modern Vietnamese history as the first of several uprisings and resistance movements during a thousand year period known as the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Eras of Northern Domination (111 BCE - 938 CE). During the preceding Triệu dynasty (204-111 BCE), the many Việt tribes of the Pearl River and Red River regions were united by a former Qin military general and governor named Triệu Đà / Zhao Tuo. This multicultural independent state was known as the kingdom of Nam Việt (Nanyue) and its name is the etymological origin of both the modern Việtnamese and Yue/Yuht (Cantonese) languages and peoples. In its fifth generation, Nam Việt was conquered by the imperial expansion of the Han dynasty, renamed as Giao Châu (Jiao province), and its distinctly matrilineal and egalitarian family structures and social customs were heavily suppressed under a Confucian system of patrilineal land ownership and tax administration. In 264 CE, the province of Quảng Châu (present day Guangdong and Guangxi) was created out of the eastern half of Giao, and this division is nearly identical to the modern colonial borders between East and Southeast Asia, as Việt people gained independence from Han Chinese culture, Yuht people were assimilated and/or displaced by it.

Wulin Heroes!

Fanart de Bai Yue

Okay, so because this is “Drunk Asian History”, now I will give you the answers!!!

See, this is the Dong Son Drum, that was a bronze instrument found in the Dong Son region of today’s Vietnam.

However, do not take credit for it (If you’re Vietnamese, because there is an actual fight between the Chinese and Vietnamese who “first created” the drum). 

There are many versions of the “Dong Son” bronze drum too as well in other cultures. It did not mean that they were the same people, but that they shared the same similar cultures during the Bronze Age (1000 BC, so basically like 3,018 years ago).

However, during the same time, Nan Yue culture existed, and in today’s Guangdong province, they claim to have the “largest bronze drum”.

However, the fight between Chinese and Vietnamese over who “owns” the bronze drum, is all about cultural and nationalistic pride. This is coming from someone who lives in both worlds. Chinese and French-Indochina. Because 3,000 years ago, the word “Chinese” and “Vietnamese” people never even existed. before that was some other culture and identity, that we refer to as the Nan Yue and the Dong Son culture. Vietnamese and Chinese people didn’t even exist until the 1800′s when colonialist began to map us out and draw their line of territory of what they wanted to own.

Anyways, we were referred to by our own languages. The Han, the Cantonese, the Viets, the Kinhs, etc.

But I just wrote a topic, all off topic. 

“Is it true that the acient dong son metalworking culture was located in nothern vietnam”

The answer is “Yes” and so does many other cultures during that time too throughout today’s China.

8: What’s the background on your cell?

just a pale blue, lol. my lock screen is much prettier imo.

11: Honestly, are things going the way you planned?

nope, never. my future is a giant ? and i honestly don’t know what i’m gonna do with my life once i get my degree OTL

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This map shows a general combination of common ethnic migration throughout the years from around 2,500 years ago, till today.

From the list down (Teal, blue, green, lime, yellow, red, purple) I will list them down numerically from the ethnic region of Southern China and Southeast Asia:

Japan. During 300BC-300AD, did a migration of proto-Southern Chinese moved into southern Japan.

Aboriginal native Taiwanese. The common ancestors of all Pacific Islanders.

Baiyue (Proto-Southern Chinese). They would eventually migrate and colonize into Taiwan and Northern Vietnam during the Chinese Imperial Age.

The Tai group. In the map, it shows a more modern map of where the Tai speaking people (Thai, Lao, Shan, Tai/Tay) are now located.

Malayo-Polynesian people (Malay, Indo, Filipino, etc.)

Austroasiatic (Vietnamese, Cambodian, Mon, Khmu people)