Place

Khu Tuc

The citadel taken by the northern army under Dan Hoa Chi in its expedition against Lam Ap; the Song shu records the fall in the tone of a ledger, while the massacre the Thuy kinh chu describes exists only in the Chinese histories.

At a glance

Type
A citadel taken by the army sent against Lam Ap; the Song shu calls the man beheaded there the chief commander Phu Long, the Thuy kinh chu calls him the king of Khu Tuc, Pham Phu Long12
Dates
Taken during Dan Hoa Chi's campaign; the Song shu (in its chapter on Lam Ap), the Thuy kinh chu and the Viet su luoc give the twenty-third year of the Yuanjia era (446); the biography of Tong Xac in the Song shu, and the Nan Qi shu, give a year earlier; the Complete Annals give 436, ten years off from the other books13245

About the place

The old chronicles say

The Song shu records that the Dragon-Soaring General and inspector of Giao Chau, Dan Hoa Chi, was sent to attack Lam Ap, and that army took the citadel of Khu Tuc. The Song shu records the outcome in the tone of a ledger: in the fifth month it fell; the chief commander Phu Long was beheaded; gold, silver and goods were taken beyond counting.1

The Thuy kinh chu describes what the Song shu passes over: they beheaded the king of Khu Tuc, Pham Phu Long; of everyone fifteen years old and over, they buried alive or cut down, and spared none; the towers and halls rained blood, and the corpses were heaped into mounds. This scene exists only in the Chinese histories. The Complete Annals do record Dan Hoa Chi's expedition, even the story of Tong Xac and the fake lion, but they do not have this massacre.25

Mentioned in

  1. Episode 4Giao Chau under the Jin and the Southern and Northern Dynasties16 min

Sources for this page

Every row of the profile and every passage below points to one of these documents. How we choose and check sources

  1. Song shu

    book 97, Accounts of the Barbarian Peoples, the section on the kingdom of Lam Ap, main text

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  2. Thuy kinh chu

    book 36, the chapter on the On river, in Li Daoyuan’s own words

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  3. Song shu

    book 76, the biography of Tong Xac, main text

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  4. Viet su luoc

    upper book, the section on successive governors, Lich dai thu tuong

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  5. Dai Viet su ky toan thu

    the annal of the period under the Wu, Jin, Song, Qi and Liang, folios 9b-11b, main text

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