Letter to friends

Tranlated into english by VAN THANH

To friends,

Right from the starting moment of this writing. I have sincerely wished that by some time in the future, the history of Hung Nation would become a collective work of ones, who have the deep-rooted feelings with motherland History.

I am merrily a person raising some ideas,tendencies, stretch the heart on paper page and invite everybody engage to discuss, repair, and add, to make the research a collective work. In the spirit of fidelity, veneration towards our forefathers, and mutual respect, I invite everybody to continue this streamline, comfortably further the writing,

I think the history of the Hung Nation, still have incalculable thing to be seek, if not accepted the ironical erroneous stuffs such as: Giao Chi, a country name, means a country of the people who have two toes set interfacing each other, or Van Lang, the country name, is a country of stripe areca, betel nut, translating directly from the dictionary without any thoughtful meanings, that the Han Chinese impose and make the world understand wrongly about our Vietnam. More over, 18 kings Hung vuong history turns to a funny story: Hung vuong is a bear hunter, seized a bear and to be named a Hung—strong =bear. King Ha Vu turned to a bear. His wife, seen that, painfully died and turned to a mountainous stone name Do Son Thi...

We, a civilized culture—Hoabinh culture, named along to the location in North Vietnam, by archeologists, dated more than 15000 years old, already have mainstream history since long time ago, but what we know about historical country remains dubious, even with the basic origins and notions: we still did not know clearly, such as:

What does it mean Viet Nam?

Viet Nam official country name, when did it happen? . We know we are HungVuong (King Hung) descendents, but what does Hung mean? Still arguing, why we have 18 dynasties of HungVuong, and what stage in history, in which Hung kingdoms exist?

Many keywords of our nation such as GiaoChi- Viet Thuong, Hong Bang, Van lang, Nam bang, .. .still is speculative, unclear.

The above are big things, the small things are more ridiculous, Nung Tri Cao, a barbarian leader, in 1052 confess himself as King Nhan Hue, organizes the government, set the official nation’s name: Dai Nam. Following failure in diplomatic efforts, Nung occupies the Quang Dong, Quang Tay, pacifies these areas and prepares the force to seize Ba Thuc country, He counter-fights and defeats Tong dynasty’s army and must run away on 10 May 1053 in the battle led by his enemy: Dich Thanh’s brilliant general. According to the conventional history, such earth-shaky happen speedily during only 1 year!? One can see it as a joke, as the 2 regions East; West Quang has a dimension just small as two wards of a city? (HCM city as an example)

Ones need not to have a clever mind to see in practice, that fact is impossible to happen, unless Nung Tri Cao has a magic trick to turn imagination to reality with a blink of an eye, as Te Thien Dai Thanh (a saint, popular saying). That is the past. Even in near time, we know the following story:

Only a few people knows that the descendent of Hung Nation in the last Nguyen dynasty: Dai Viet Nam has a border to the west: Thailand and Myanmar.

Vientiane and Cambodia are two vassal kingdoms, owing to 2 rulers or governors, who are under the Vietnamese King -- Dai Viet.

Royal Kingdom of Laos and Cambodia are products born from the policy of division to the French colonist: divided policy to make easy for them to rule our country. I repeat here the real history

Extremely many things are still covered and must be seek. If we clarify some things, even only a thing of historic trueness, then our effort makes our life not wasted.
With some humble words, from my heart, I would like to share with our blood related brothers and sisters…

nqn