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Trung Cốc Temple
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The Trung
Cốc Temple is
seated on a high earthen mound in the middle of the Ðông Cốc Hamlet
of Nam Hòa Commune, Yên Hưng District.
Long ago, it was built
using bamboo and thatch as materials, but in 1807, was rebuilt as it
is seen today. It was built according to the Chinese character "đinh"
(J) which consists of a three-compartment in the Front Ceremonial
Hall, a two-compartment in the Back Sanctuary. The temple is
dedicated to national heroes Trần Hưng Đạo and
Phạm Ngũ
Lão.
The temple has two statues
of Trần Hưng Đạo and Phạm Ngũ Lão, and still preserves royal decrees
conferring honourable titles on the heroes. The ritual festivities
take place yearly on the eighth day of the third lunar month.
Legend has it, that in
order to build the stake-yard at the mouth of the Kênh River, the
two men took a boat, but were stopped by an earthen mound in the
hamlet of Ðông Cốc. They had to mobilize people, military men and
fisherman, to come and drive their boat off the mound. To remember
the event, after the victory on the Bạch Ðằng River, the people
built this temple on the site where the boat was caught.
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