Dinh Dynasty (968-980) Although the Viet culture of Giao Chau
Province, as it developed under Tang hegemony, depended upon
Chinese administration to maintain order, there was growing
cultural resistance to the Tang in the border regions. A revolt
among the Muong people, who are closely related to the central
Vietnamese, broke out in the early eighth century. The rebels
occupied the capital at Tong Binh (Hanoi), driving out the Tang
governor and garrison, before being defeated by reinforcements
from China. Some scholars mark this as the period of final
separation of the Muong peoples from the central Vietnamese,
which linguistic evidence indicates took place near the end of
the Tang dynasty. In the mid-ninth century, Tai minority rebels
in the border regions recruited the assistance of Nan-chao, a
Tai mountain kingdom in the southern Chinese province of Yunnan,
which seized control of Annam in 862. Although the Tang
succeeded in defeating the Nan-chao forces and restoring Chinese
administration, the dynasty wa