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The Lạc Việt was known for casting large Heger Type I bronze drums, cultivating paddy rice, and constructing dikes. The Lạc Việt who owned the Bronze Age Đông Sơn culture, which centered at the Red River Delta (in Northern Vietnam), [3] are hypothesized to be the ancestors of the modern Kinh Vietnamese. [4]
A Đông Sơn axe Dong Son drum from Sông Đà, Mường Lay, Vietnam.Dong Son II culture. Mid-1st millennium BC. Bronze. The Dong Son culture, Dongsonian culture, [1] [2] or the Lạc Việt culture (named for modern village Đông Sơn, a village in Thanh Hóa, Vietnam) was a Bronze Age culture in ancient Vietnam centred at the Red River Valley of northern Vietnam from 1000 BC until the ...
Âu Việt-Lạc Việt War (258–257 BC) [a] Văn Lang under Hung Kings (Lạc Việt) Âu Việt led by Thục Phán: Victory for Âu Việt. Thục Phán (An Dương Vương) conquered Lạc Việt. Merging of Âu Việt and Lạc Việt into Âu Lạc.
As the leader of the Âu Việt tribes, he defeated the last Hùng king of the state of Văn Lang and united its people – known as the Lạc Việt – with his people, the Âu Việt. An Dương Vương fled and committed suicide after the war with Nanyue forces in 179 BCE.
The leader of the Âu Việt, Thục Phán, overthrew the last Hùng kings, and unified the two kingdoms, establishing the Âu Lạc polity and proclaiming himself King An Dương (An Dương Vương). [18] [19] According to Taylor (1983): Our knowledge of the kingdom of Âu Lạc is a mixture of legend and history.
The 7th century BC witnessed the process of migration of Lạc Việt refugees who fled the Spring and Autumn period to Văn Lang. [5] The Lạc Việt were a people from East Asia. The migrant people finally settled in the Red River Delta. [5] Slowly, the Lạc Việt settlers would grasp power over Văn Lang. [6]
The meaning of the word Lạc itself is debatable. A theory suggests that it might come from the term "lạc điền", meaning waterfield, and so Lạc bird would mean waterfield bird. [6] The word is also translated as "lost" in modern Vietnamese language, which could be a metaphor to the Vietnamese history. [7]
In 257 BC, a new kingdom, Âu Lạc, emerged as the union of the Âu Việt and the Lạc Việt, with Thục Phán proclaiming himself "An Dương Vương" ("King An Dương"). Some modern Vietnamese believe that Thục Phán came upon the Âu Việt territory (modern-day northernmost Vietnam, western Guangdong , and southern Guangxi province ...