Hundred-Egg Children (Bách Việt)
The Hundred-Egg Children (Bách Việt) are the mythical founding ancestors of the Vietnamese people, born from an egg sac laid by the mountain fairy Âu Cơ after her marriage to the dragon lord Lạc Long Quân. According to the creation myth, Âu Cơ gave birth to a sac containing one hundred eggs, which hatched into one hundred sons — the progenitors of all Vietnamese people. Due to the elemental incompatibility between the dragon father (water and sea) and the fairy mother (mountains and sky), the couple separated. Fifty sons followed their father to the coast where they learned fishing, sailing, a