The student in Vietnamese class (1st grade) had a special teacher (Đính) to come and teach the
students about a legend of “Dragon Line & Fairy Line” (truyền thuyết “Con Rồng
Cháu Tiên”), the main story is as following in the blue text (Đính will update
with me for the web link that he used to get the story, and when I get it, will
post it on the blog); Đính would like to emphasize these key points:
· Our
primal ancestors were Lạc Long Quân và Âu Cơ; they had 100 sons, and since Lạc
Long Quân was from Dragon line, he took 50 sons with him to the coast; Âu Cơ
was from Fairy Line, she took 50 sons with her to the mountain
·
Separation
agreement of Lạc Long Quân và Âu Cơ: always support and help each other
·
The
1st king of Lạc Việt was Vua Hùng (Hùng Vương; the eldest son of Lạc
Long Quân)
·
There
were 18 generations of Hùng Vương Dynasty
·
We
are “Con Rồng Cháu Tiên”
According
to legend, the first truly Vietnamese king was Lac Long Quan, also known as the
“Dragon Lord of Lac”, whose home is the sea of what is now Northern Viet Nam.
Lac Long Quan married a princess from the mountains, named Au Co, and their
union resulted in a 100 eggs. From each of these eggs, a son was born, giving
Lac Long Quan and Au Co 100 sons. But as one is from the sea and the other from
the mountains, Lac Long Quan and Au Co soon separated. Lac Long Quan took with
him 50 sons back to the lowlands and they became known as the people of Lac
Viet. Au Co took 50 sons with her back to the mountains and high-regions and
became the people of Au Viet.Legend continues that Lac Long Quan’s eldest son succeeded him to become the first King Hung Vuong. King Hung Vuong joined all of the people of Lac Viet together and created the kingdom of Van Lang. After 18 hereditary kings of the King Hung Vuong dynasty, Van Lang was invaded by the leader of Au Viet, Thuc Phan. Thuc Phan successfully united the Lac Viet and Au Viet, proclaimed himself King An Duong Vuong, and called his kingdom Au Lac to signify the union of the two.
Throughout history, there have been many names for the land that is now known as Viet Nam. In the beginning, there was the kingdom of Van Lang, which later became the kingdom of Au Lac. Au Lac shortly thereafter became Nam Viet, then Giao Chi, Van Xuan, An Nam, Dai Co Viet, Dai Ngu, Dai Viet and finally Viet Nam.
And that is why to this day, many Vietnamese people consider Lac Long Quan and Au Co as the primal ancestors of the country of Viet Nam.
No homework
on paper, but I did assign the homework for them: learning by heart the verse “Hoa Xuân”; it should
be in HW#11 that I graded and handed back to your children (if your children
were absent from the class last Sun, please find the verse below)
Hoa đào
hé nhụy đón xuân sang.
Năm mới
chúc nhau được huy hoàng,
Ông bà,
cha mẹ cùng con cháu,
Dân Việt
ngày thêm được vẻ vang.
Also, please
remind your children that we will have ĐVĐH this coming Sun, 26Jan14; topics
should be covered in the last 3 lessons and Tết
Team 5:
Đội Nguời Chiến Thắng: Thiện,
Nhật Trân và Thiên Ngân
vs
Team 3:
Đội Cây Chiến
Thắng: Jason, Anh
Thư và Bỉnh Khiêm
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