Monday, 29/04/2024,

Temple of the king's master Tran Thu Do

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From Neo town, district of Yen Dung down to the provincial road 284 to the north of Bac Giang about 1.5km and turn right over the small bridge over Nham Son canal about 100m we will meet a temple with ancient look located in the center of Minh Phuong village, which is the temple of Tran Thu Do.

The monument was named "Thanh Nhan Tu" (Thanh Nhan Temple). Legend has said that the temple was built from the Tran dynasty, through the feudal dynasty, the monument was has been restored for many times, so the traces of the temple have the architectural style of the dynasty. During the war against the French colonialists, this was a desert forest, where soldiers and local guerrillas were staying, gathering weapons and ammunition. At the same time, it was the base for receiving wounded soldiers from Bac Ninh. Therefore, the French invaders repeatedly bombed this area and the relic of Thanh Nhan temple was also destroyed by bombs. In 1997, the people of Minh Phuong village (Nham Son commune, Yen Dung district) restored the embellishment on the old ground.

New architectural and landscape is restored, but in the relics still preserve a number of valuable antiques such as: Cast iron incense burner in 1465, stone incense sticks, stone stonework, stone columns engraved with sentence ... Through the relics we understand more about the history of this relic.

It is called: Temple of Tran Thu Do, but in fact the relics worshiping both Thai and his wife Linh from the Queen Tran Thi Dung. Thanh Nhan Temple story said that: At that time, Nham Bien was densely populated. This was Linh's wooden elevator from Tran Thi Dung, also an important backstop of the Tran dynasty, Tran Thu Do stops in Huong Cao (Minh Phuong area today). The people in the region knew that he came to bring the weight offering and said: In the ravine there is a giant snake who often goes down to the surrounding villages to catch meat eaters, looking forward to the master's hand out of the beast (which is now called the Snake).

Tran Thu Do calms the people and then design lured snake out of the cave that killed, bringing peace to people around the area. Then he taught the people to create traps to catch the animals destroying crops. Recognizing the merit of the master, after his death in the region people have set up the temple where he was resting and named: Thanh Nhan pagoda.

When he went to check the soldiers on the river, standing on the high mound at the Cau ferry (Dong Huong), people of Ke Cau offered sacrifices and told of extreme suffering due to crop failure, floods droughts. He consulted the terrain of the river and instructed the people to build the cauldron to prevent the floods, to re-raise the ditches when the sun was drought. People in the area out of natural disaster, enough life has set up shrines, worship families married royal tutelary.

Thus, not only Thanh Nhan Temple and Ke Cong (Dong Huong) shrine worshiped him as a goddess - the gods have merits except poisonous snakes, wild animals, and help people embank dykes to prevent floods, give warm, peaceful life for a large area.

Every year on April 8th and 1st lunar month, villagers celebrate Thanh Nhan temple. The ceremony was finished, the next day, the family then open the association. In the past there were chanting songs, wrestling, human chess and indispensable two traditional games: Cotton dance represents the lure of the snake that eliminates; Swimsuit symbolizes the general training the war on Nhu Nguyet river.

Thanh Nhan Temple is a cultural belief, where memorial of the history of the nation is Tran Thu Do Monk and national hero Tran Thi Dung. In the interior still retain 3 pairs of ancient sentences engraved on the stone reflects the praise of the virtue of the virtue of the country's people in general Minh Phuong native in particular:

- Thúc phụ Đông A triều, vạn lý sơn hà đáp khí

  Thái sư Nam Việt quốc, thiên thu thảo mộc tri danh

(Honored to the father of the Tran dynasty, the thousand miles of the mountain rose)

Being a Vietnamese teacher, expanding reputation in thousands of year)

- Đức trạch nguy nga sơn hữu sắc

Anh uy hạo đãng thuỷ vô ba

(Enlightenment in the mountains

Honor high sensitivity country)

- Cảm ứng linh thông hồn mạc trắc

Tảo trừ bảo hộ diệu vô cùng

(Touch the spirit of immortality

Help the people to remove the evil to the bright soul in thousand of year).