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    Peter and the Wolf
    By Sergei Prokofieff Performed By New York Philharmonic
    Narrated by Leonard Bernstein
    This is Leonard Bernstein and I am going to tell you the story of "Peter and the Wolf." Now, usually before this piece begins the speaker explains how each person or animal in the story is described by a certain instrument of the orchestra. But I am sure you know all of that already, don't you? Well, allright let's see if you do. For instance, who is being represented by these three French horns?
    Right, the wolf. And what is this oboe describing?
    Right again, the duck. And now the flute?
    You're betting a thousand, the bird. Now who's this low character in the clarinet?
    Right, the cat. Then of course there are these well known drummings.
    What's that all about? Correct, the hunters shooting their guns. Now who is this slumbering old bassoon?
    The grandfather. My, you really know this piece, don't you? Well, that's all of them, except, wait, I left out the most important one of all, the strings.
    And that isõ?Ư Peter himself. I congratulate you on a perfect quiz. And now the story begins.
    Early one morning Peter opened the gate and went to the big green meadow next to his house.
    The first friend he met was a little bird sitting on a branch of a big tree. The bird was chirping away happily: "All is quiet, all is quiet, all is quiet, all is quietõ?Ư"
    Yes, all was quiet. Even the pond was still, because there wasn't a breath of wind to ruffle it.
    Soon the duck came waddling about. She lived in Peter's backyard and she was glad that Peter had forgotten to close the gate, because now she could take a nice swim in the deep still pond that was in the middle of the meadow.
    The little bird spied the duck and flew down next to her on the grass.
    "Hah," said the bird, "what kind of a bird are you if you can't fly?"
    "Hah," answered the duck, "what kind of the bird are you if you can't swim?"
    And she dived into the pond.
    They argued and argued. The duck's swimming around the pond and the little bird hopping after her along the shore.
    All of a sudden, something else caught Peter's attention: there was a cat sneaking through the grass.
    The cat thought: "Hum, while the bird is busy arguing with the bird, I'll just grab it." And she slowly crept toward the bird on her velvet paws.
    "Look out!" yelled Peter to the bird who immediately flew up into the tree.
    While the duck swam as fast as she could to the middle of the pond where the cat couldn't touch her and quacked at the cat with all her might.
    But the cat was more interested in the bird. She crawled around the tree and thought: "Is it worth it climbing up so high? But the time I get there the bird would've flown away."
    While Peter was watching the cat making up her mind, he suddenly saw his grandfather standing in the open gate. Grandfather was very angry because Peter had gone into the meadow.
    "This is a dangerous place," he growled. "Suppose a wolf came out of the forest, then what would you do?"
    But Peter paid no attention to his grandfather's words because boys like Peter aren't afraid of wolves.
    But grandfather took Peter firmly by the hand, led him home and locked the gate.
    No sooner than Peter had gone, and a big gray wolf DID come out of the forest.
    In a flash the cat scampered up the tree.
    The duck's quacking became even louder than before and in her excitement she jumped right out of the pond.
    But no matter how fast the duck try to waddle away, she couldn't escape the wolf. It was getting nearer and nearer, catching up with her, and BANG! He got her and with one gulp, he swallowed her.
    And now this is how the situation was: the cat was sitting on one branch of the big treeõ?Ư and the bird on another branch, not too close to the cat.
    And the wolf still hungry, was walking around and around the tree looking at them both with greedy eyes.
    In the meantime Peter, not at all scared by any of this, was standing behind the closed gate watching everything that was going on.
    Suddenly he got a brilliant idea. He ran home found a strong rope and climbed up the high stone wall that separated his house and the big meadow. You see the big tree in the meadow was so big that one of its branches reached all the way over to the wall. So Peter grabbed hold of the branch and swung himself easily over on to the tree. Right next to the bird.
    "Listen," he whispered to the bird. "Fly down and circle around the wolf's head, only watch out he doesn't catch you."
    "Just as you say," chirped the bird and down he flew. The bird came so close to the wolf's head that he almost brushed it with his wings while the wolf snapped angrily at him from every direction.
    Oh! How the bird did tease that wolf. And how the wolf wanted to catch that bird. But the bird was cleverer and the wolf simply couldn't do a thing about it.
    Meanwhile Peter was making a lasso out of the rope. And now he carefully began letting it down, and down, and down.
    Until he caught the wolf by the tail and pulled with all his might. The moment the wolf felt his tail caught in the lasso, he became furious and began to jump above wildly trying to get loose.
    But Peter tied the other end of the rope to the branch. And so the wolf's jumping only make the rope around its tail tighter.
    Just then, Peter saw some hunters coming out of the woods.
    They had been following the wolf's trails and they were shooting as they came.
    But Peter high up in the tree shouted to the hunters: "Don't shoot! The bird and I had already caught the wolf. All you have to do is help us take it to the zoo."
    So there's the story.
    And now, just imagine the victory parade.
    Peter of course in the lead.
    And following Peter, the hunters leading the wolf.
    And winding up the whole parade: grandfather and the cat. Grandfather of course was pretty grumpy about the whole thing. "Well," he said, "and what if Peter hadn't caught the wolf, what's then?"
    And high above them all flew the little bird chirping merrily: "My, what fine fellows we are Peter and I, look what we have caught: a WHOLE wolf!"
    And if you listen very carefully you can still hear the duck quacking very softly of course, inside the wolf's belly because the wolf in all his excitement and hurry, swallowed her alive.
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    Peter And The Wolf
    by Al Yankovic (With Wendy Carlos)
    Lyrics:
    Once upon a time
    I think it was last Thursday
    A boy named Peter opened the gate
    And went out into the big green meadow
    On the branch of a big tree sat a little bird
    "All is quiet," said the bird
    "Holy cow, a talking bird!" thought Peter
    Just then, Bruce the Duck came waddling by
    Bruce was very happy that Peter hadn't closed gate
    And he decided to check out the deep pond in the meadow
    Billy the Bird saw the Duck
    So he decided to fly down
    And pick an argument with him
    "What kind of bird are you if you can't fly?" he said
    To which the Duck cleverly replied
    "I'm a duck, stupid"
    They argued and argued
    The Duck swimming in the pond
    The little bird skipping along the shore
    *scratch*
    Sorry
    Suddenly, something caught Peter's eye
    And you know how painful that can be
    It was Louie the Cat crawling through the grass
    Louie the Cat thought, "If the Bird is busy arguing, I'll just grab him"
    So, quietly, Louie crept towards him on his velvet paws
    Well, his paws weren't really velvet
    They were, you know, kind of like velvet
    It's a, what do you call it
    Uh, a metaphor
    It's a metaphor, get it
    Look out, look out, look out
    Look out, look out, look out
    Look out, look out, look out
    Advised Peter
    The bird immediately flew up into the tree
    While Bruce the Duck quacked at Louie the Cat
    From the middle of the pond
    Louie the Cat walked around the tree and thought
    "Is it worth climbing up so high
    Or should I just send out for pizza"
    Grandfather came out
    He was all bent out of shape
    Because Peter had gone into the meadow
    "It's a dangerous place
    If a Wolf should come out of the forest
    Then what would you do, huh"
    Peter did not answer because, after all
    It was a rhetorical question
    Boys like Peter are afraid of a lot of things
    Like Nuclear annihilation and flunking algebra
    But they're not afraid of wolves
    But Grandfather got Peter in a headlock
    And dragged him home telling him that he was grounded
    And that he couldn't watch any cartoons for three weeks
    Just then, as luck would have it
    A big, mean, hairy, ferocious, snarling, carnivorous Wolf
    Did come out of the forest
    But I guess we all knew that was coming
    I mean, the story is called "Peter and the Wolf"
    We couldn't very well call it "Peter and the Wolf"
    If there wasn't any Wolf, could we
    Huh, that would be really stupid
    The Cat was up the tree in a twinkling
    Which is about, oh, 2.3 seconds
    Bruce the Duck quacked so hard
    That he propelled himself backwards and up onto dry land
    For those of you taking notes
    This is a fine practical example of Newton's First Law of Motion
    Which clearly states that for every action
    There is an equal and opposite reaction
    But no matter how quickly Bruce tried to waddle away
    He couldn't escape Seymore the Wolf
    Who was wearing his best pair of tennis shoes
    The Wolf was closing in on the Duck
    It was getting closer and closer and closer
    And then, and then
    He got him, he got him
    Oh no, oh, it was terrible
    Oh, oh I can't believe it, oh
    The humanity, the humanity
    Oh my God, ah-ho, oh
    And then with one big gulp
    Seymore wolfed him down
    *burp*
    Um, let me recap the story briefly
    In case you just walked into the room
    Louie the Cat was sitting on one branch
    Billy the Bird was on another branch
    Not too close to Louie
    And Bob the Janitor was at home defrosting his refrigerator
    The Wolf walked around the tree so many times
    That he made a small trench
    Meanwhile, Peter was standing behind the closed gate
    Videotaping everything that was going on
    Suddenly Peter got an idea
    He ran home and got a big spool of his Grandfather's unwaxed dental floss
    One of the branches of the tree that the Wolf was circling
    Was conveniently stretched out over a high stone wall
    Peter scaled the wall lickity-split
    Which is even faster than a twinkling
    Then he grabbed the branch and climbed onto the tree
    Peter said to Billy the Bird, "I want you to fly down
    And circle around the Wolf's head to distract him
    But be very careful he doesn't catch you and bash your skull in
    And tear out your lungs and chew you up
    Into itsy-bitsy teeny-tiny little pieces"
    "Okay" said the bird
    Billy the Bird almost touched the Wolf's head with his wings
    While the Wolf snapped angrily at him
    "Go ahead," said the Wolf
    "Make my day"
    "Come on, cut it out," snarled the Wolf
    "You're asking for trouble, punk"
    But Billy the Bird just kept on harassing him
    Meanwhile, Peter made a lasso out of the dental floss
    And, carefully letting it down
    Caught the Wolf by the tail and pulled with all his might
    Feeling himself caught, the Wolf got really ticked off
    And started jerking back and forth
    Peter tied the other end of the dental floss to the tree
    And left the Wolf dangling in mid-air
    "Hey, Big Bad Wolf," said Peter
    "Why don't you come up here and get us now?"
    "I would," said the Wolf
    "But, well, I'm kinda tied up right now"
    Just then, some members of the National Rifle Association came out of the woods
    Firing their magnums, oozies, and bazookas
    But Peter yelled "Don't shoot
    Billy the Bird and I have caught the Wolf
    Now, let's take him to the Zoo"
    "Great idea," said the hunters
    "And if he likes that
    Next week we'll take him to Disneyland"
    Just imagine the victory parade
    Peter was at the head
    *flush*
    But after a few minutes he was through
    And then the parade began with Peter at the very front
    After him, the hunters, leading Seymore the Wolf
    Then Grandfather and Louie the Cat
    And finally, Bob the janitor
    Who had to sweep up the whole mess
    Grandfather shook his head discontentedly
    "Well, Peter, what if you hadn't caught the Wolf?
    What then"
    "Well," said Peter
    "He probably would have ripped out my intestines with his teeth"
    *choking* said Grandfather
    "I know that, you idiot
    It was a rhetorical question"
    Above them, Billy the Bird chirped proudly
    "Yeah, that's right
    We bad, we bad"
    Grandfather decided that he'd had enough of the pond
    And the meadow and the whole stinking scene
    So he ran off to Los Angeles and joined a Heavy Metal band
    And what about Bruce the Duck
    Well, the Wolf had been in such a hurry
    That he swallowed him alive
    Which means the gastric juices slowly dissolved his body
    And he died a long, painful death
    However, you'll be happy to hear
    That, just a few years later, he was reincarnated
    As Shirley MacLaine
    And the moral of the story is
    Oral hygiene is very important
    Make sure you see your dentist at least twice a year
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    LAC LONG QUAN and AU CO
    Thousands of years ago, Kinh Duong Vuong reigns over the Xich Quy kingdom that spread in the North up to the Blue river; in the South to Central Vietnam; in the West up to Sseutchouan; and in the East as far as the sea.
    Kinh Duong Vuong married Long Nu, a princess from Dong Dinh Ho. Because of Long Nu's origin, their son Sung-Lam, popularly known as Lac Long Quan, was believed to be descended from the line of the Dragons. He succeeded to the throne of his father, and governed the Lac Viet tribe.
    Lac Long Quan had superhuman strength. He liked to stay near the water, so he resided along the seashore. Lac Long Quan protected Lac Viet people from being harmed by devils and monsters. He helped them fight against nature disasters. He taught them how to crop and to sew. He also taught them to cook rice in the bamboo tube.
    At that time, De-Lai is a King of another northern tribe made a trip to the South. De-Lai has a daughter named Au Co. She is very beautiful.
    One day, Lac Long Quan wondered on the mountain area. He met Au Co and fell in love with her. He built her a castle on a rocky mountain. Lac Long Quan then married Au Co and lived with her.
    Au Co gave birth to a big sac. Inside there were one hundred eggs. Each egg in turn hatched into one little boy. These boys grew up very fast, became brave strong men.
    Even though Lac Long Quan had a big family, he still missed his old living near the Coast. One day, he said to Au Co:
    - I am from the Dragon line. I like to dwell in the Coast. You are from the Fairy line, you like to be on highlands. Therefore we cannot live together. It is better that we separate now. You shall take fifty children to the highlands and I shall take fifty children to the Coast.
    The children then spread out, divided and ruled the lands. They were ancestors of Lac Viet
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    HUNG VUONG
    Queen Au Co went westwards along with 50 children while King Lac Long Quan was bound down east with the other 50. His beloved son, Hung Lang, then became King of remaining in Phong Chau, Xich Quy s capital, and reigning over the whole kingdom.
    Of these principalities, the most powerful and best organized was the Lac Viet, or Van Lang , the area of which included present-day North Viet Nam, and the northern part of Central Viet Nam. This Kingdom supposedly endured from 2879 B.C. until 258 B.C., and had 18 kings.
    King Hung Lang changed the Xich Quy national appellation into Van Lang (Country of the Lettered) and called his reign Hung Quoc Vuong.
    Succeeding Hung Quoc Vuong was Hung Hoa Vuong who was succeeded by his eldest son Hung Hy Vuong and the latter by Hung Huy.
    King Hung Huy Vuong had 22 sons and was once in a dilemma in his selection of the ablest heir.
    One day, he said to the princes: "Who among you could find me the best food ever known, good and meaningful enough to offer our forbears altar will get the throne."
    Lang Lieu, the King s ninth son and also the most virtuous prince in a light sleep was instructed by an angel to use rice and make of it two kinds of cake called Banh Day (Round Rice cake) and Banh Chung (Square Rice cake). King Hung Huy Vuong was pleased with Lang Lieu's cake. Lang Lieu then won the race to the throne.
    Lang Lieu came into power under the royal appellation of Hung Chieu Vuong and was succeeded by Hung Vi Vuong, Hung Dinh Vuong, Hung Uy Vuong, Hung Trinh Vuong, Hung Vu Vuong, Hung Viet Vuong, Hung Anh Vuong, Hung Trieu Vuong, Hung Tao Vuong and Hung Nghi Vuong.
    The 18 Hung Vuong kings of the Hong Bang Dynasty reigned for some 2622 years - which would mean an average of 150 years each. So we must assume that there must have been many lesser kings whose names were forgotten long before the period of recorded history.
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    AN DUONG VUONG
    The Hong Bang was reigned by the 18 Hung Vuong Kings.
    During 258B.C., the Kingdom northern part of Viet Nam ruled by the Thuc Dynasty. King Thuc Vuong had asked the southern King, Hung Vuong XVIII, for his daughter's hand in marriage. When the Thuc King's request was refused, he became enraged and a feud developed between the two family dynasties. One of King Thuc Vuong's nephews, Thuc Phan, profited from the degeneracy and debauchery of Hung Vuong XVIII to invade and conquer the Van Lang Kingdom in 257, B.C., thus ending the Hong Bang dynasty.
    Thuc Phan, assumed the name of An Duong Vuong, then ruled the combined kingdoms of Viet people. The country was then known as Au Lac.
    (Co Loa Temple)
    An Duong Vuong protected his reign by constructing a spiral-shaped citadel, which was called Loa Thanh (the remaining ruins of Loa Thanh still exist in the village of Co Loa, Phu Yen province).
    In this endeavor, the King was said to have received the divine help of the Gold Turtle, who equipped the King with a supernatural cross bow which made him invincible. This weapon derived its magic from an attached claw offered by the Gold Turtle himself.
    To the north, however, the powerful Chinese King, Tan Thuy Hoang, of the Tan Dynasty, who start building Van Ly Truong Thanh (The Great Wall). Tan Thuy Hoang sent Trieu Da to extend the territories southern towards Viet Nam. An Duong Vuong defeated Trieu Da's army with his supernatural bow.
    Trieu Da then adopted the customs of the Viets, married his son Trong Thuy to the princess My Chau, daughter of King An Duong in year 208B.C.
    Trong Thuy then made a false magic crossbow. He gave it to his wife to switch with the one that King An Duong Vuong had. After having the supernatural bow, Trong Thuy came back to the North. Trieu Da sent his troop to conquer the Kingdom of Au Lac. An Duong Duong beheaded My Chau, his daughter, and drowned himself in the sea before the invaders could reach his citadel.
    Trieu Da conquered and ruled Au Lac from 207B.C.
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    TRIEU DYNASTY
    Trieu Da reigned as absolute monarch under the royal name of Trieu Vu Vuong, and his new, enlarged kingdom was renamed Nam Viet. This dynasty lasted for 70 years, from 208 B.C. until the beginning of the Chinese domination. During the years of the Trieu Dynasty, Nam Viet had come gradually into the sphere of Chinese influence. In return for payment of tribute to the Court of the Han Emperor, the kingdom of Nam Viet received protection from and exchanged envoys with, the Chinese. Prince Anh Te, heir-apparent to the Nam Viet throne, was sent in his father's stead to pay the tribute demanded by the Chinese.
    When Anh Te returned in 125 B.C. *****cceed his deceased father as king, he brought his Chinese concubine with him and named her as his Queen. Anh Te, who ruled under the name of Trieu Minh Vuong, died after a rule of twelve years, and was succeeded by his young son.
    The Chinese, desiring more complete control, sent an envoy to win over the young king. The Chinese Queen Mother, who had been this envoy's lover before she was taken as Prince Anh Te's concubine, conspired with the envoy to bring her son, the child king, to the side of the Chinese. Just in time, the plot was uncovered, and the top mandarin of the Nam Viet Court exposed the plan and denounced the betrayal. The other Court officials rushed in to help, killing the plotters and the young king, and pro-claiming the eldest son of Trieu Minh Vuong (Anh Te) as king, since this son was born of a Vietnamese woman.
    These developments, of course, did not please the Chinese. Less than a year later, in 111 B.C., the Chinese King, Vu De, sent two generals and five regiments to invade the territory of Nam Viet. The mandarins, powerless against such a force, were captured along with the new king, and all were killed.
    Thus began the era of Chinese domination, which lasted for some ten centuries with only brief interruptions.
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    TRUNG NU VUONG (HAI BA TRUNG)
    Trung Trac and Trung Nhi were daughters of a Lac Lord from Tay Vu, a city located on the Red River northwest of the modern capital, Hanoi. Trung Trac, the elder sister, married Thi Sach, an aristocrat from the nearby Chu Dien.
    In 39 A.D., Thi Sach was arrested and executed for complaining about taxes imposed by the Chinese prefect Su Ting. To avenge his death, Trung Trac and Trung Nhi led a rebellion against the Chinese. With an army of 80,000 people, the Trung sisters drove the Chinese out and reclaimed the territory extending from Hue to southern China. After their victory, the people proclaimed Trung Trac as their ruler and called her "Trung Vuong". She established her royal court in Me-linh (Hong River plain). During her rule, Trung Trac abolished the hated tribute taxes levied by the Chinese, and attempted to restore a simpler form of government, one more in line with tra***ional Vietnamese values.
    But the victory was short-lived. In 43A.D., under the command of General Ma Vien, the Chinese defeated Trung Trac and reclaimed the territory. Abandoned by most of their "Lac Lord" followers and refusing *****rrender, the Trung sisters drowned themselves in the Hat River.
    The Trung's heroism soon inspired legends and poems, and became a source of pride for women who lived more restricted lives. Today, stories, poems, plays, postage stamps, posters and monuments still glorify the heroism of the Trung sisters.
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    TRIEU THI TRINH (Trieu Au)
    (222-248 A.D.)
    Trieu Thi Trinh, known as Ba Trieu or Trieu Au, was a rebel leader during the Chinese occupation. She was born on October 2, 225 A.D. in Son Trung Village, Trieu Son District, in what is today Thanh Hoa province in North Vietnam. She was orphaned at a young age and lived with her brother Trieu Quoc Dat.
    At age 20, Trieu Thi Thinh established a military camp in the jungle to wage war against Chinese oppression. When her brother tried to discourage her military aspirations, she supposedly responded with: "I will not resign myself to the lot of women, who bow their heads and become concubines. I wish to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I have no desire to take abuse."
    With that, Trieu Thi Thinh recruited and raised an army of at least a thousand men and women. Before she turned twenty-one, she and her army had already fought and won more than thirty major battles against the Chinese. In the freed territory, Trieu Thi Thinh established her own administration and kept it independent for several months.
    Folk tales described her riding into battle on an elephant, with a sword in each hand. The Chinese soldiers were so terrified that at the mention of her name, they would say to themselves, "It would be easier to fight a tiger, than to fight the Lady Queen." Or so, the stories went. In 248 A.D., several months into battle, the Chinese subdued her army. Rather than surrender, Trieu Thi Trinh committed suicide by jumping into a river. She was twenty-three when she died.
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    LY BON (Ly Nam De)
    (541 - 544)
    After the Trung sisters' and Trieu Thi Trinh's revolts, Vietnam came once again under Chinese domination. But cruel and unjust ruling of certain Imperial Commissioners were bound to nurture resistance. Near the middle of the fifth century A.D., resistance turned into a major revolt against the Chinese.
    Ly Bon was born in Long Hung village (present-day Thai Binh province). He was a wealthy and well-educated aristocrat. At his young age, he was appointed by the governor to the position of military mandarin commander for the Chinese army. But unable to withstand the suffering endured by his people under Chinese control, Ly Bon resigned and initiated a revolt against the Chinese.
    In 541 A.D., Ly Bon defeated the Chinese and declared himself King Ly Nam De. He defied all Chinese rules to create an independent country, something that hasn't happened since the Hong Bang Dynasty more than 600 years ago. He named the country Van Xuan and established Long Bien as the capital.
    Four years later, China sent its army to invade Vietnam. Unable to hold the capital, Ly Bon withdrew his army to Phong Chau District. There, Ly Bon commanded his power to Trieu Quang Phuc, one of his most trusted and talented generals. Trieu Quang Phuc, realizing that his army could not endure a head-on battle with the Chinese, withdrew his army into the Da Trach swamp (now Hung Yen Province). In the mean time, Ly Bon withdrew his forces to Khuat Lieu, Hung Hoa where he could set up another defense line. In 548 A.D, he died of disease. A year after his death, Trieu Quang Phuc crowned himself Viet Vuong (Viet Emperor) and continued the crusade against the Chinese.
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    MAI THUC LOAN (Mai Hac De)
    (722 A.D.)
    Mai Thuc Loan, also known Mai Hac De (Black King), was a rebel leader who led revolt against Chinese rule in early eighth-century Vietnam.
    At that time, the Tan Dynasty took control of China. It imposed a new iron-fist type of dictatorship on Vietnam, changed Vietnam's name to An Nam, forced people to pay severe tax. Mai Thuc Loan was very intelligent, born into a very poor family in Mai Phu village. He and his mother used to pick woods for living. Although people worked very hard, they still could not meet the Chiness demand. One day, Mai Thuc Loan could not stand to see others sufferred from hunger and torture, in 722 A.D., he called out to all people to stand up against the Chinese.
    His followers were at first local skilled hunters and farmers. Eventually, people from all over came to join the troop. The army resided in Hung Son. They then took over the Hoan Chau District. The army continued to multiply. One of the talented and knightly figure to join forces with Mai Thuc Loan was Mountain District Chief of Ba Vi, Phung Hap Khanh. Before long he defeated the Chinese and took over 32 districts. After Mai Thuc Loan captured the capital with the help of Chams and Khmers, he proclaimed himself emperor. Because of his dark skin, people called him Mai Hac De - meaning The Black King. Unfortunately, hia revolt was briefly successful.
    Fall of 722, China sent its new forces to put Vietnam again under its domination. Mai Thuc Loan was defeated. He withdrew to the side of Hung Son Mountain. Here, Mai Thuc Loan set up the last defense and fought to the his last breath.
    Though his victory to free Vietnam from Chinese's domination did not last, Mai Thuc Loan is still considered one of Vietnam's greatest heroes.
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