🌟 Nha Trang and the Cham Towers 🌟
The Cham people, indigenous to the central and southern parts of Vietnam, have a history dating back to 1000 BCE. By 137 AD (the second year of the Yonghe era), a rebellion led by the of Xianglin County, with thousands of Cham people, successfully overthrew the county magistrate, defeated the Han dynasty's garrison, and occupied the entire Rinan Commandery, proclaiming themselves the "King of Linyi." The Han dynasty, disinterested in military campaigns in such remote areas, chose not to intervene Unlike Vietnam, Linyi was part of the "Greater Indian Civilization" sphere. Being adjacent to Funan (an ancient Indianized kingdom in the Indochina Peninsula, with its ruling center around the Mekong River Delta), the emerging Linyi absorbed a significant amount of Indian culture, including Brahmanism and the caste system. Brahmanism was the early state religion of Linyi. Consequently, the long-standing Cham pagodas, such as the Po Nagar Cham Towers, showcase architectural styles deeply influenced by the pre-Angkor period of Khmer culture China first referred to "Linyi" as "Champa" around 877 AD, while the Cham people had been using "Champa" to call their own country since before 629 AD. After the 9th century, Chinese and Vietnamese historical records began to uniformly refer to this nation as "Chenla" Chenla, a nation that stood for 1600 years, was involved in wars with Vietnam for 800 years, with the two countries' territories expanding and contracting accordingly, much like the relationship between the Central Plains dynasty and the surrounding nomadic tribes. Finally, in 1832, Vietnam's Minh Mạng Emperor carried out the "reformation of the soil and the return of the flow" against Champa, leading to the complete demise of the Cham people's nation. Today, the Cham, who once controlled nearly half of Vietnam's territory, now only number around 100,000 in Vietnam's population #Vietnam #Travel #ChamTowers