Khúc Thừa Mỹ (
chữ Hán
( , ) are the Chinese characters that were used to write Literary Chinese in Vietnam, Literary Chinese (; ) and Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary in Vietnamese language, Vietnamese. They were officially used in Vietnam after the Red River Delta region ...
: 曲承美;
pinyin
Hanyu Pinyin, or simply pinyin, officially the Chinese Phonetic Alphabet, is the most common romanization system for Standard Chinese. ''Hanyu'' () literally means 'Han Chinese, Han language'—that is, the Chinese language—while ''pinyin' ...
: ''Qū Chéngměi''; governed: 918–923 or 918–930) was a self-declared
jiedushi
The ''jiedushi'' (, Old Turkic: Tarduş) or jiedu, was a regional military governor in China; the title was established in the Tang dynasty and abolished in the Yuan dynasty. The post of ''jiedushi'' has been translated as "military commissi ...
of
Tĩnh Hải quân (modern northern
Vietnam
Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a population of over 100 million, making it the world's List of countries and depende ...
) during the later part of the
Third Chinese domination of Vietnam, when China entered the chaotic
Five Dynasties period. He succeeded his father
Khúc Hạo and tried to maintain northern Vietnam's autonomy. His rule was officially recognized by the
Later Liang, thus he came to conflict with
Liu Yan, the ruler of
Southern Han
Southern Han ( zh , t = 南漢 , p = Nán Hàn , j=Naam4 Hon3; 917–971), officially Han ( zh , t = 漢 , links=no), originally Yue ( zh , c = 越 , links=no), was a dynastic state of China and one of the Ten Kingdoms that existed during the ...
.
[Chính xác, họ Khúc bị nhà Nam Hán đánh chiếm]
, '' VnExpress''. The Southern Han invaded in 930, capturing the capital
Đại La
Đại La (), means ''the Citadel of the Great Dike'', or La Thành (羅城, means ''the Citadel of the Dike'') was an ancient fortified city in present-day Hanoi during the third Chinese domination of the 7th and 8th centuries, and again in the 11 ...
(present-day
Hanoi
Hanoi ( ; ; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Vietnam, second-most populous city of Vietnam. The name "Hanoi" translates to "inside the river" (Hanoi is bordered by the Red River (Asia), Red and Black River (Asia), Black Riv ...
) with no resistance, and Khúc Thừa Mỹ was taken to Canton, where he was placed under comfortable house arrest.
Chinese rule in Vietnam was thereby reestablished.
References
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Jiedushi of Vietnam
Later Liang (Five Dynasties) jiedushi
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People from Hải Dương province
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