Chenle

We also got another randomized photo PC.

And I got Chenle.

And this one they're all doing the Neo sign.

I see, I've seen so many of these for sale online.

Um, but yeah.

I got Chenle.

Neo got my back.

And outside of like the event there was people who like, like [laughs] you know, you know those like, um, that cartoon stereotype where it's a guy with like a long trench coat, and he opens it up and there's like drugs inside? That's like low-key [laughs] what they were like, but with PCs.

The disappearance of Funan is usually presented as a political event with a date attached to it.

Chenle rises, Funan declines, a new dynasty takes control, the map changes color, the evidence refuses that clean sequence.

Chinese dynastic histories describe a polity called Chenle becoming more powerful during the 6th and 7th centuries, and eventually subordinating Funan.

Cambodian inscriptions from the same broad period record rulers such as Bhavavarman, Mahendravarman, and Asanavarman.

Archaeology in the lower Mekong, however, does not show a simple destruction horizon marking the end of one civilization and the beginning of another.

Political names change faster than the material world underneath them.

Chinese texts are the starting point because they preserve the clearest statement that Funan was conquered.

The Sui Shu and later compilations describe Chenle as having once been subordinate to Funan before its ruler, traditionally identified as Chitrasena or Mahendravarman, attacked and defeated it.