thing related to the ancient time it should be considered as the evidence of our history, included folktales. Native Cantonese and other Nan Yue people were sinezed from 2000 years, they forgot who was they ruler in ancient time. Other southern Chinese are immigrants.
So I'm supposed to believe that somehow the vast lands of the Hung Kings was only remembered by Vietnamese and not any other ethnicity?
Give me a break,both you and other nationalistic Vietnamese conjure fanciful stories about the might Vietnamese ruling an empire that rivals the Chinese Warring States.
First off what is Cantonese?
Cantonese people are mixed no doubt there could be Baiyue,Zhuang,Xianbei,Han etc in them by now it is fruitless to assume that people don't change after thousands of years.
Neither are the Cantonese a homogenous sub ethnicty some Cantonese would have more native blood compared to Northern blood and vice versa.
I remember nationalistic Vietnamese claiming that since Cantonese speak a language other than Mandarin they aren't Chinese,Yue languages such as Cantonese are Sinitic not Vietic in origin.
Any similarities between Cantonese and Vietnamese is due to the prevalence of Ancient Southwestern Chinese spoken by the elite of Northern Vietnam,and later heavy borrowings also contributed to Sinitic lexicon.
Besides the only "proof" that EastSea ever uses is Vietnamese books that are written thousands of years after the event unfolded,I already addressed many of the inaccuracies from the Vietnamese historical books which I will delineate some below.
1.If Van Lang is so large stretching all the way to the Chang Jiang then why wouldn't it be recorded Southern states such as Chu would have maintained contact.
2.The kings of Wu and Yue never viewed themselves as one people and certainly did not mention a Baiyue sovereign.
3. Anceint Chinese texts never mention the legends of Xich Quy,Van Lang or Hung Kings.
4.There is no archaeological evidence of a bureaucracy of the supposed Van Lang empire.
5. Southern Han Chinese and other Chinese minorities never mentioned the Hung Kings in their myths.
6. Phong Chau is a Sui-Tang naming convention thus it could never have existed.
7. In the Dai Viet su ky toan thu the 15 regions of Van lang are all located in Northern Vietnam furthermore the concept of North is Lake Donting etc is a copy of Huayang Guozhi.
8.In the Kham dinh Viet su thong giam cuong muc admits that Van Lang could not have possibly been that big.