Person
Do Vien
Father of Do Tue Do; the Song shu records the family as coming from Jingzhao and staying on in Giao Chi from the time of Tue Do's great-grandfather, while the Complete Annals call him a man of Chu Dien, of our country. According to the Song shu, he gathered troops and beheaded Ly Ton, governor of Cuu Chan, whom the Complete Annals record as rebelling in 380.
At a glance
- Role
- Put down the revolt of Ly Ton, governor of Cuu Chan: the Complete Annals record that Ton rebelled in 380 and was beheaded the following year; the Song shu says only, briefly: Vien gathered troops and beheaded Ton, and the province was at peace12
- Origin
- The Song shu, in the biography of his son Do Tue Do, records that the family came from Jingzhao; Tue Do's great-grandfather Nguyen was governor of Ninh Pho, and so stayed on in Giao Chi. The Complete Annals, writing about him, put it in a sentence chosen with care: Vien was a man of Chu Dien, of our country21
Life
The old chronicles say
The Song shu biography of Do Tue Do records that the Do family came from Jingzhao, and Tue Do's great-grandfather Nguyen was governor of Ninh Pho and stayed on in Giao Chi. The Complete Annals, writing about his father Do Vien, put it in a sentence chosen with care: Vien was a man of Chu Dien, of our country — those words, 'our country', belong to the Vietnamese court historians, not to the Song shu. Do Vien's great service was putting down a revolt: the Complete Annals record that Ly Ton, governor of Cuu Chan, rebelled in 380 and was beheaded the following year; the Song shu says only, briefly: Vien gathered troops and beheaded Ton, and the province was at peace. The Viet su luoc calls this man Nguyen Ton, and that book turns the surname Ly into Nguyen twice more, with Truong Nhan and Thuc Hien.213
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