Hồ Tôn Tinh ( zh, 胡猻精, Husunxing) or Hồ Tôn ( zh, 胡猻, Husun) was an ancient

Champa Champa (Cham language, Cham: ꨌꩌꨛꨩ, چمڤا; ; 占城 or 占婆) was a collection of independent Chams, Cham Polity, polities that extended across the coast of what is present-day Central Vietnam, central and southern Vietnam from ...

kingdom that was mentioned in some Vietnamese textbooks.

History

The first mention of Hồ Tôn Tinh was from the 14th-century semi-fictional work of

Lĩnh Nam chích quái ''Lĩnh Nam chích quái'' ( vi-hantu, 嶺南摭怪 lit. "Selection of Strange Tales in Lĩnh Nam") is a 14th-century Vietnamese semi-fictional work written in chữ Hán by . The title indicates strange tales "plucked from the dust" of the Li ...

, with "The story of Dạ Xoa" ():

Territory

The 15th-century national chronicle of

Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư The ''Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư'' ( vi-hantu, 大越史記全書; ; ''Complete Annals of Đại Việt'') is the official national chronicle of the Đại Việt, that was originally compiled by the royal historian Ngô Sĩ Liên under ...

(ĐVSKTT) and

Trần Trọng Kim Trần Trọng Kim (; chữ Hán: 陳仲金, Kanji pronunciation: ''Chin Jūkin''; ; 1883 – December 2, 1953; courtesy name Lệ Thần (, chữ Hán: 隸臣) was a Vietnamese scholar and politician who served as the Prime Minister of the sho ...

's 20th-century

Việt Nam sử lược ( vi-hantu, 越南史略, , lit. "Outline History of Vietnam"), was the first history text published in the Vietnamese language and the Vietnamese alphabet. It was compiled by Vietnamese historian Trần Trọng Kim. It covered the period from ...

(VNSL) both mentioned Hồ Tôn Tinh as a southern neighboring country of the semi-mythical Hồng Bàng–ruled kingdom, with ĐVSKTT said that Hồ Tôn bodered Văn Lang (2524–258 BC) while VNSL believed it bordered Xích Quỷ (2879–2524 BC).

Ruling clan

According to the 19th century

veritable records Veritable Records are historical records compiled by government (court) historians of Chinese dynasties since the 6th century, and later in Korea, Japan and Vietnam which adopted the Chinese bureaucratic system and the writing system of Classical ...

Đại Nam thực lục ''Đại Nam thực lục'' ( vi-hantu, 大南寔錄, lit. "Veritable Records of the Great South", "Annals of Đại Nam", "Chronicle of Greater Vietnam") was the official history of Nguyễn dynasty, Vietnam. It contained the royal records of t ...

, volume 33 of ''Đại Nam chính biên liệt truyện sơ tập'', Hồ Tôn was a

Cham Cham or CHAM may refer to: Ethnicities and languages *Chams, people in Vietnam and Cambodia **Cham language, the language of the Cham people ***Cham script *** Cham (Unicode block), a block of Unicode characters of the Cham script * Cham Albani ...

kingdom ruled by the Việt Thường clan ( zh, 越裳氏, Yueshang).

Fall

There was no mention of to why or how Hồ Tôn Tinh might have collapsed. But since the country was believed to be located somewhere in Quảng Nam, it is possible that Hồ Tôn Tinh fell because of an invasion from

Nanyue Nanyue ( zh, c=南越 or 南粵, p=Nányuè, cy=, j=Naam4 Jyut6, l=Southern Yue, , ), was an ancient kingdom founded in 204 BC by the Chinese general Zhao Tuo, whose family (known in Vietnamese as the Triệu dynasty) continued to rule until ...

Influence from Indian culture

According to Huber in ''La Légende du Ramayana en Annam, Etudes indochinoises'', the story of Hồ Tôn Tinh was probably the ancient Champa's version of

Ramayana The ''Ramayana'' (; ), also known as ''Valmiki Ramayana'', as traditionally attributed to Valmiki, is a smriti text (also described as a Sanskrit literature, Sanskrit Indian epic poetry, epic) from ancient India, one of the two important epics ...

. There, ''Dasanana was named Dạ Xoa, ''Rama'' was called Prince Vi Tư, and ''Sita'' was Princess Bạch Tịnh.

Notes

Sources

{{reflist Yang Po Inu Nagar Taha History of Champa Former countries in Vietnamese history Former countries in Southeast Asia