Trưng is the family name of **the Trưng Sisters — Trưng Trắc and Trưng Nhị (d. 43 CE) — who led the first major Vietnamese uprising against Chinese Han Dynasty rule** (40-43 CE). **They drove the Chinese governor out, captured 65 citadels, and ruled an independent Vietnam for three years** before Han general Ma Yuan defeated them. They reportedly drowned themselves in the Hat Giang River rather than surrender.
**National heroines of Vietnam** — commemorated annually on the sixth day of the second lunar month.
Trưng reduces to seven — the number of Vietnamese rebel queens.