Legendary founding of the Van Lang Kingdom by the first Hung Vuong.

According to the earliest Vietnamese traditions, the founder of the Vietnamese nation was Hung Vuong, the first ruler of the semilegendary Hung dynasty (2879 B.C. -225 B.C.) of the Kingdom of Van Lang. Hung vuong, in Vietnamese mythology, was the oldest Son of Lac Long Quan (Lac Dragon Lord), who came to the Red River Delta from his home in the sea, and Au Co, a Chinese immortal. Lac Long Quan, a Vietnamese cultural hero, is credited with teaching the people how to cultivate rice. The Hung dynasty, which according to tradition ruled Van Lang for eighteen generations, is associated by Vietnamese scholars with Dong Sonian culture. An importan aspect of this culture by the sixth centry B.C. va the tidal irrigation of rice fields through an elaborate system of cannals and dikes. The fields were call Lac fields, and Lac, mentioned in Chinese annals, is the earlies recorded name for the Vitnamese people