Ðã mang tiếng ở trong Trời Ðất Phải có danh gì với Núi Sông. Nguyễn Công Trứ       Ðình(*)		According to the archaeological sources we have today, the Vietnameses  are  probably  descendants  of the Thai-Vietnamese group. Some historians keep on seeing in these Vietnamese, not only Mongol immigrants coming from southern China ( the Yue ) and resettling in the Red River deltain the course of the centuries that preceded our era, but also carriers of the Chinese civilization that swept away on their  passage by a demographic push, all the brilliant civilizations known up until then on the Indochinese peninsula ( those of Ðồng Sơn, and later of Champa) Others think that the Vietnameses are the result of fusion between several people in contact in the basin of the Red River among which it is necessary to quote Hmongs, the Chinese, the Thais and Dongsonese. While basing themself on their legend of water melon taking place at the time of Hung kings and testifying to the coming of strangers of a different race who might have brought the seeds to Viet-Nam by the maritime way ( 3rd century B.C ) and on the archaeological excavations confirming the existence of the kingdom of Nan Yuê, the Vietnameses are convinced that they resulted from Yue but with an Indonesian background probably via by the intermediary of the Dongsonese because Ðình (*) heightened on piles and where resides the most vivid expression of the Vietnamese soul, resembles indisputably the houses prefigured on the bronze drums of Ðồng Sơn. This conviction seems conclusive because one finds also other astonishing resemblances among Vietnameses as well as Indonesian tribes: chews bétel, tattooing and tooth lacquering
			(*)  A sort of  communal house lodging the altar of genies in each Vietnamese village.
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