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to my neighbors next room, if you're going to have sex, please go to a motel, the soundproofing in this building is really not that great

Lĩnh Nam chích quái is a collection of legends and folktales, not an official history book. but even so, its contents still do not justify Vietnamese people claiming all of baiyue (百越) as Vietnamese. Obviously baiyue is a loose umbrella term for numerous ethnics and tribes scattered across southern china - including ancient vietnamese - who had relatively little in common with one another. In Lĩnh Nam chích quái, the account of the Hồng Bàng clan states that Di Ming (帝明) was the third generation descendant of Yan Di (炎帝), of the Shennong (神農) lineage. During an inspection tour of the south, he reached the Five Ridges (五嶺), where he fathered Loc Tuc (祿續) with the daughter of Vu Tien (婺仙). Later, Di Ming appointed Di Yi (帝宜) to rule the north and Loc Tuc to rule the south as Kinh Duong Vuong (涇陽王), whose kingdom was named Xich Quy (赤鬼國). Loc Tuc married the daughter of the Dragon King of Dongting (洞庭君龍王), and they had a son named Sung Lam (崇纜), also known as Lac Long Quan (貉龍君). Di Lai (帝來), the son of Di Yi, later toured the south. Upon discovering that Lac Long Quan had returned to the underwater palace and that nobody was governing the south, he left behind his daughter, Au Co (嫗姬, Ou Ji), along with her attendants, while he continued his travels. Later, Huangdi (黃帝), a.k.a. Xuanyuan (軒轅), defeated both Chi You (蚩尤) and Di Yuwang (帝榆罔), bringing the Yan Di lineage to an end. Sung Lam returned to protect the people of the south, saw how beautiful Au Co was, and promptly married her. And there you have it, a family tree that goes in a circle. The text also explicitly states that Au Co was from the north. Au Co and Sung Lam divided their 100 sons between them: 50 followed their father down to the underwater palace, while the other 50 remained on land with Au Co. They divided the territories among themselves and ruled separately. It was only among those 50 sons who remained on land that the ancestors of the Vietnamese people were found. Thus not only can the Vietnamese not claim sole ownership of the obviously mythical kingdom of Xich Quy, they cannot even claim that all those 100 sons were Vietnamese. As for why the Vietnamese have this particular legend, part of it is based on older folklore that developed during the millennium of Chinese rule. Another part was systematized so that the Vietnamese, who by then were already adopting imperial titles and proclaiming themselves emperors within their own realm, could establish a continuous line of legitimate ancestry stretching back to antiquity and justify their own imperial status, claiming that they too were Sons of Heaven. This could only have happened because the Vietnamese shared a pantheon with the Chinese, you know, the Chinese pantheon.