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Ngô Quyền and the Citadel of Cổ Loa
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08/18/2010 | 2:31 PM
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VGP - General Ngô Quyền was a former sub-ordinate of Dương Đình Nghệ (?-937). He was born in the village of Đường Lâm, Sơn Tây. Ngô Quyền was an intelligent and willful general, a kung fu expert, and he was also very strong. Dương Đình Nghệ liked him very much and decided Ngô Quyền should marry his daughter and govern Ái Châu Province.
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Lý Nam Đế, Founder of the State of Vạn Xuân
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08/10/2010 | 11:08 AM
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VGP - The Tô Lịch River is a natural branch of the Red River whose silt has raised the level of the fields in the two inner-Hà Nội districts of Thọ Xương and Vĩnh Thuận as well as the two outer districts of Từ Liêm and Thanh Trì and of communes in Thanh Oai District where it converges with the Nhuệ River. The name Tô Lịch has been in history since the 6th century when Lý Nam Đế ordered his troops to build the Tô Lịch rampart and vanquished the Liang invaders and officially named the fatherland Vạn Xuân.
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The monk in Sài Mountain and Cổ Loa Citadel
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05/28/2010 | 9:19 AM
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VGP - To the north of Cổ Loa Citadel lie seven mountains called Thất Điệu Sơn (Thất Điệu Mountains). According to legend, these mountains were seven tortoises that came from the north. The biggest mountain located in Nhồi Village was the mother tortoise, and the smallest mountain beside it was the youngest tortoise. The other tortoises were older so they went further away and spread to Găng Bridge. In the past these mountains were covered with a thick forest which was the home of many different kinds of birds.
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Love by a Green Stream
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05/23/2010 | 10:41 AM
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VGP - Bích Câu means "green stream" and the name is related to an unexpected romantic love affair. Long ago, a palace maid from China who lived in the total confinement of the palace wrote part of a poem on a red leaf and let it float away in a stream. A student picked it up and later got married; his wife turned out to be the maid who wrote the piece of poetry on the red leaf so, as a result of this story, the stream became a symbol of unusual encounters.
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The Queen of Silkworms
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05/23/2010 | 9:39 AM
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VGP - Nghi Tàm was the biggest silkworm farm in ancient Thăng Long. It is said that people in this area were taught the trade by Princess Quỳnh Hoa, the daughter of King Lý Thái Tông (1054–1072) but Quỳnh Hoa was not a real princess. She was born in Nghi Tàm, the daughter of Trần Vĩ, a mandarin in the Lê Thánh Tông dynasty from Nam Hà Province, who opened a school in Nghi Tàm when he retired.