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| Vietnamese '''Hai Bà Trưng''': National heroines of Vietnam. | Vietnamese '''Hai Bà Trưng''': National heroines of Vietnam. | ||
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| Trung Trac and Trung Nhi, daughters of a powerful lord, lived in a time in Vietnam when women had many rights which they inherited through their mothers' lineages, while in China women had lost their privileges due to the popular teachings of Confucious requiring women's subservience. | |||
| Vietnamese people did not actively oppose the Chinese rule until the year 39 AD when they began to feel oppressed. To frighten the Vietnamese and bring them to submission, a Chinese commander raped Trung Trac and killed her husband. In retaliation, the Trung sisters organized a rebellion. They | |||
| chose and trained 36 women, including their mother, to lead a people's army of 80,000 that drove the Chinese out of Viet Nam in 40 A.D., restoring the country's independence after some 200 years of Chinese rule. | |||
| For the next three years the Trung sisters engaged in constant battles with the Chinese government in Vietnam. Out armed, their troops were badly defeated in 43 A.D. Rather than accept defeat both Trung sisters choose the traditional way of committing suicide, they drowned themselves in a river. Although they were short-lived heroes, they have long been remembered and honored among women and men alike in Vietnam through literature, plays, postage stamps, posters, monuments, and the Ha Loi Festival. | |||
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Vietnamese Hai Bà Trưng: National heroines of Vietnam.