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The “weird” letter from the Song Dynasty to King Le Dai Hanh

In the eighth month of Canh Thin year (980), the Song king sent Lu Da Ton to send a letter to the king of our country, Le Dai Hanh. Along with sending the ultimatum, they sent Hau Nhan Bao, Ton Toan Hung, Hac Thu Tuan and Thoi Luong, divided their troops into four directions, ready to attack and destroy the Southern army. The letter is full of arrogant words, but the content has many very special and funny ideas. Reading in it, we can see that the author of the letter is all about discussing medicine, healing, and acupuncture, combining it with stories of war and pacification.

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Bach Dang Giang relic site in Hai Phong city. Photo: Quang Ninh Newspaper.

The ultimatum reads:

For Man Di, China is like a human body with four limbs, movement and contraction depending on the heart, so it is said that the heart is the master.

If in one hand, one leg, the blood vessels condense, the tendons and bones are restless, medicine must be used to treat it. If the treatment is not effective, then acupuncture must be done for the period of recovery. It is not that if you don’t know the medicine, your mouth will be bitter, but if you sting, your skin will tear. To do so is because the harm is little but the benefit is much. Should the king of the world do the same? Therefore, the Emperor Thai To received the throne ceded by the Zhou Dynasty, renamed the country Song, the literature was pure, changed according to the past, in the emperor’s throne, he watched Man Di get sick. So in the first and second year, the medicine for the land Kinh, Thuc, Tuong, Dam; In the third year, acupuncture for the regions of Quang, Viet, Ngo, Department of tendons and blood vessels looks childish, somewhat healthy.

Was it not due to the miraculous and lucid intelligence of the regal that he could have foreseen that? Until I continue to maintain a large inheritance, personally consider the affairs, thinking that the land of Fen and the land of Tinh is a disease of the sick heart, if the heart disease has not been cured, how can the limbs be cured? That’s why we practiced medicine with benevolence, modified acupuncture with ethics, and tried our best to cure the lands of Fen and Tinh, only to be cured once, and the nine continents and four seas were strong again.

Only your Giao Chau is at the far end of heaven, really beyond the five realms. But the extra part of the extremities is like the fingers and toes of the human body, even though only one finger is painful, does the sage not think about it? So we have to open your stupid heart to let my spear spread, will you follow? What’s more, from the time of Thanh Chu, your country brought the white pheasant to offer, until the time of Yan Han built a bronze pillar as a landmark, until the Ly Duong dynasty still belonged to the interior. At the end of the road, there were many disasters that could not be handled. Now, the holy dynasty of humanity covers all countries, and the peaceful inheritance has also prospered. The room allocation ceremony has been arranged, waiting for you to come and wish me good health. Don’t you lurk in the four corners of your house, making me sad to have to cut the flag, cut your skull and weed your country, how can you repent? Even if your rivers have pearls, I will throw them into streams; Your mountains are ready, I will throw them to the dust to see that I am not greedy for the treasures of your kingdom. Your people are often flying (meaning living in the wild). And I have horses and chariots; your people drink their noses, but I have rice and wine to change your customs; Your people have hair and I have hats, your people speak the language of birds, and my people have Thi and Thu to teach your people rituals. The world is blazing hot, the smoke is a bit hazy, I spread the clouds of Yao to water the sweet rain. The sea air is sizzling, burning and melting rocks, we break the Thuan Dan, fanning the fragrant wind. Why in heaven and country no one knows your name, I turn the horoscope so that you can come back. Your land is full of demons, everyone is afraid of them, I have cast a large flap to cover them, so that they do not harm. Get out of your island and see the Ming and Bich Ung? Take off your leafy clothes and wear a floral collar embroidered with mountain dragons?

Whether you follow or not, don’t be quick to take the blame. Now we are adjusting vehicles, soldiers, sending out the gongs and drums. If you follow the teachings, we will forgive you, if you go against the law, we will send troops to fight. For or against, good or evil, you decide…” (Excerpt from: Dai Viet Su Ky Toan Thu by Ngo Sy Lien).

Thousands of years ago, to be able to write such a letter to tell the people of the Song kings were also not bad people. Except for the arrogant words of the person who considers himself a “hegemonic of great power”, who considers his opponent a barbarian; Except for pompous and pompous sentences such as “throwing jade into the stream, throwing gold in the dust” to show that it is not for profit, but prefers civilized and humane things, such as “radiating clouds of Nghiao” “playing the Thuan lute”, we see the effect. fake the letter of war when it was hard and soft, brought the war to discussion, combined with the dissection and analysis of healing arts and acupuncture, considering our country at that time was small, weak, and sick like a child. sick.

Who would have thought, before those threats of the Song king, our Le Dai Hanh did not show any fear, but in 981, that is, a year after ascending the throne, responded to the Song king with a few “acupuncture” shots. extremely magical. The ten commanders of General Le Hoan did not surrender but also defeated the extremely powerful and huge attacking force of the foreign invaders. He sent stakes to block Bach Dang river to block the advance of enemy general Luu Truong, and defeated Hau Nhan Bao and Ton Toan Hung in Lang Son. Tran Kham To in Tay Ket heard that the navy was losing the battle, so he fled, our army defeated half of the enemy’s army, captured the enemy generals Quach Quan Bien and Trieu Phung Huan, and brought them back to Hoa Lu.

After this battle, King Song reprimanded his minions such as Luu Cheng, Jia Shi, and Vuong Soan. Chong died of illness, Soan was killed in Ung Chau, Ton Toan Hung was also killed with his head in the market. They did not expect that the people who wore “grass and grass” clothes and spoke like a bird did not bother to wear the “flower collar shirt embroidered with mountain dragons” as they invited and coaxed to rise up heroically to fight foreign invaders and gain independence. continuing the good indomitable tradition of Lac Viet.

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