Triệu Trọng Thủy (, Zhong Shi) was a prince of Nanyue.
He was a son of the Nanyue king Zhao Tuo (Triệu Đà), who was sent as an emissary to the king of Âu Lạc, and was given the hand in marriage of Mỵ Châu, the only daughter of An Dương Vương.The Oxford companion to world mythology - Page 395 David Adams Leeming - 2005 "Another aspect of the Vietnamese cycle tells the quasi-historical story of An Dương Vương, one of the hundred sons of ... But the king is tricked by Triệu Đà, who sends his son Trọng Thủy as an emissary to Au Lac to find out the source of An ..." But she unwittingly betrayed her father to her husband's father, leading to the fall of Cổ Loa fortress to Triệu Đà. In legend, An Dương Vương fled with his daughter. When he reached a river, he called out to the Golden turtle for help, to which the turtle surfaced and scolded him: “The one on horse behind [you] is the enemy? Why not kill [that one]?” So he killed her. Trọng Thủy arrived immediately afterward, and found the body of his beloved wife and his father-in-law nowhere to be seen, he brought her body back to Cổ Loa for burial and later on drowned himself in the well where his wife once bathed.
Trọng Thủy and Mỵ Châu in literature Trọng Thủy and Mỵ Châu are a Romeo and Juliet motif in Vietnam's literature.Two rivers: new Vietnamese writing from America and Viet Nam Kevin Bowen, Frank Stewart, Ba Chung Nguyen - 2002 "I was always thinking of the story of Trong Thuy and My Chau." Our impoverished homeland has many legends. Almost any Vietnamese would know the story of how Trong Thuy's father, king of the Trieu kingdom, had sent him to the court of ..."
See also Nanyue Triệu dynasty Zhao Tuo Panyu District An Dương Vương Âu Lạc Baiyue
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