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Hai Bà Trưng (Trưng Sisters District) is one of the four original urban districts (quận) of Hanoi, the capital city of Vietnam. [4] The district currently has 18 wards , [ 1 ] covering a total area of 10.26 square kilometres (3.96 sq mi). [ 2 ]
During the 1920s the area was administered by the Vụ Bản district mandarin. [note 2]The district includes the Vân Cát temple. [note 3]This is also the place of growth of many celebrities in many fields : Official Lương Thế Vinh, teacher Phạm Văn Nghị, writer Nguyễn Năng Tĩnh, politician Trần Tiến Đình, official Nguyễn Đức Thuận, poet Nguyễn Bính, scholar ...
Temples to the Trưng Sisters or Hai Bà Trưng Temples were found from as early as the end of the Third Era of Northern Domination. [34] The best known Hai Bà Trưng Temple is in Hanoi near Hoàn Kiếm Lake. [35] [36] [37] The temple was constructed by king Lý Anh Tông (r. 1138–1176) in 1158. According to tradition, in that year a ...
The three main avenues in the district, Lạc Long Quân, Âu Cơ, and An Dương Vương, were names of leaders of early Vietnamese civilization.The smaller streets in the district are named after renowned Vietnamese poets, artists and music composers, such as Xuân Diệu, Tô Ngọc Vân, Trịnh Công Sơn, Nguyễn Đình Thi and Đặng Thai Mai.
Kids playing in the Hai Bà Trưng Temple yard, Hanoi According to tradition it was founded by Lý Anh Tông around 1160 after he visited a shrine to the Trưng Sisters, who then appeared to him as rain spirits.
Ban Fueai Hai: บ้านเฟือยไฮ 2. Ban Pong Thewi: บ้านโป่งเทวี 3. Ban San: บ้านสัน 4. Ban Langka: บ้านลังกา 5. Ban Pong Thewi: บ้านโป่งเทวี 6. Ban San To: บ้านสันต๋อ 7. Ban Huai Hin Lat: บ้านห้วยหินลาด
The Hai Van Pass has also been the scene of at least two of Vietnam's most serious rail accidents, and at least one air crash. 24 June 1953 – 1953 Col des Nuages derailment : "About 100 or more" were killed when two locomotives and 18 cars of a passenger train plunged 50 feet through a sabotaged viaduct in the Col des Nuages, now known as the ...
Hòn non bộ (chữ Nôm: 𡉕𡽫部) is the Vietnamese art of making miniature landscapes, imitating the scenery of the islands, mountains and surrounding environment as found in nature. It is a particular local development of the Chinese art of penzai , as was bonsai in Japan .