Talk:Lady Triệu

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I removed these sentences because of lacking of source (and, in my opinion, it come from a fringe source of some so-called scholars in Vietnam).--Amore Mio (talk) 14:19, 11 April 2009 (UTC)

The following is the popular Vietnamese account.{{Fact|date=February 2008}}

===Early years===

Triệu Thị Trinh was born in Son Trung Village in the [[Trieu Son]] District of the [[Thanh Hoa 
Province]] (situated in today's northern Vietnam) on the [[2 October]] [[225|AD 225]]. At this 
time, the area was under the control of the [[Eastern Wu]] Kingdom, one of China's [[Three 
Kingdoms]]. She was [[orphan]]ed at a young age and lived with her brother [[Triệu Quốc Đạt]] (趙
國達) and his wife until she was twenty years old. It was said{{Who|date=February 2008}} that she 
was treated like a slave in their home.

===Rebellion===

When she was twenty, she could no longer stand by and watch Wu dominate her homeland. She fled 
into the jungle and set up her own military camp where she went on to amass an army of at least a 
thousand men and women soldiers. When her brother tried to persuade her from rebelling, she told 
him:

<blockquote>''“I will not resign myself to the lot of women who bow their heads and become 
concubines. I wish to surf the rough waves, ride the strong winds, kill the whales of the East 
Sea, fight the Wu to gain independence.  I have no desire to take abuse.”''</blockquote>
{{Citequote|date=March 2009}}

Triệu Thị Trinh managed to successfully liberate an area of Vietnam which she claimed as her 
territory and from there set up her own [[Administration (government)|administration]]. By the 
time Thị Trinh was 23 she had defeated Wu advances on thirty separate occasions. She managed to 
defend her territory for several months and it was said that she rode into battle on the back of 
an [[elephant]], clad in golden [[armour]] carrying a [[sword]] in each hand.

===Defeat===

However in [[248|AD 248]], Wu managed to defeat Thị Trinh's forces and recaptured the territory 
which she had previously liberated from them. To protect her [[honour]] and to elude death at the 
hands of the Chinese, she committed [[suicide]] by drowning herself in a nearby river. There is 
another version of her suicide, saying that she was trampled to death by elephants.
{{Fact|date=February 2008}}

Another version claims that Triệu Thị Trinh was a nine-foot tall giantess who rode into battle 
upon a massive elephant with her pendulous breasts slung over her shoulders and the Chinese at 
the times exclaimed: ''“It would be easier to fight a tiger, than to fight the Lady Queen.”''.
{{Fact|date=February 2008}} [http://www.mundanebehavior.org/issues/v2n1/degroot.htm] It was 
said{{Who|date=February 2008}} that she could not stand even the tiniest bit of dirt so a Chinese 
general made his troops kick up lots of dust while they fought naked making her flee in disgust 
so her small army lost upon which she committed suicide.

This stuff certainly appears in various secondary sources, although it is not the official record or primary sources. The subject is perhaps more important as myth than as history anyway. Kauffner (talk) 03:30, 11 June 2012 (UTC)