Person
Phung An
Phung Hung's son. By the Complete Annals, he honoured his father as Bo Cai Dai Vuong after his father died; by the Cuong muc, it was the people who gave that title, while he himself was set up as Do phu quan. When Trieu Xuong arrived, he surrendered with his troops.
At a glance
- Also known as
- Do phu quan — a title found only in the Cuong muc, which says the people set him up with it1
- Role
- By the Complete Annals, it was he who honoured his father as Bo Cai Dai Vuong after his death; by the Cuong muc, the people set him up as Do phu quan and honoured Hung as Bo Cai Dai Vuong themselves21
- Family
- Son of Phung Hung2
- End
- The Tang made Trieu Xuong protector-general of Annam (the seventh month of 791, day Canh Thin, by the Old Book of Tang); by the Complete Annals, Xuong entered the land and sent an envoy to win him over, and he brought out his troops and surrendered. Le Tung writes in his comment that he could not hold on to what his father had built, and that even with Do Anh Han as a minister to plan the affairs of state, it could not save the Phung from being lost324
Life
The old chronicles say
The Complete Annals record that Phung Hung's son, Phung An, honoured his father as Bo Cai Dai Vuong — a small note explains the name: by common usage a father is called bo and a mother cai, and so it was taken as the name. Taken on grammar alone, that sentence in classical Chinese could also be read as his son, named An, was honoured as king, but the Complete Annals' own editorial principles read it as a son honouring his father. The Cuong muc tells it differently at exactly this point: the people set up his son An as Do phu quan and honoured Hung as Bo Cai Dai Vuong — by this version, it was the people who gave the title, not An.215
The Tang did not wait long: in the seventh month, on the day Canh Thin, they made Trieu Xuong, prefect of Qianzhou, protector-general of Annam. The Complete Annals tell what came next from the side of the Phung: when Xuong entered the land, people's hearts were at peace; Xuong sent an envoy to win An over, and An brought out his troops and surrendered. Trieu Xuong then built up La Thanh to make it stronger. The New Book of Tang, in the biography of Trieu Xuong, says only that the tribes submitted and dared not defy him; the Tongjian closes it off in a few words: the Man were then at peace.2367
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