Ngô Sĩ Liên
The canonization of the Hùng kings founding myth was carried out by Ngô Sĩ Liên in his compiling of a new history of the realm under the order of Emperor Lê Thánh Tông (1460–97), drawing upon popular sources. This history, the "Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư" (Complete Book of the Historical Records of Đại Việt), was used by the emperor as a tool to promote Việt ‘national feeling’. Thus, Ngô Sĩ Liên was tasked to promote Đại Việt's supernatural and millennial ancestry. This marked the first time a Việt state traced its origins back to the first realm of Van Lang of the Hùng kings, calculated by Ngo Si Lien to be in 2879 BCE. Prior to this, official dynastic histories of the Việt started with Triệu Đà, acknowledging a Qin general as the founder of the "Việt quoc." This was done based mostly on "da su" (chronicles) and in particular, the Arrayed Tales. Court historians in the later dynasties followed Ngô Sĩ Liên's example in integrating the Hùng kings into Việt official historiography.