Bình Lục District
History
Its name Bình Lục means "the flat land". However, it is also a Hanese phonetic way an older name : K'lu, B'lu, or Kẻ Lủ, Phù Lỗ. Its means "buffalo" in ancient Annamese language.
This rural district covers an area of 155 km. The district capital lies at Bình Mỹ town. As of 2003 the district had a population of 158,023.
According to the records of a number of indigenous officials and residents, the topography of Hà Nam province was lower than the sea level in the past, most of the swamps with many crocodiles. Around the 15th century, Bình Lục district was an oasis and from this location that the local people began to spread around to reclaim.
In the 19th and 20th centuries, when Hà Nam province began to form, Bình Lục acted as a cultural center of the region with the emergence of many families with achievements from imperial examinations.
Culture
By Philippe Papin's reseaches, at the beginning of Christ, the entire Red River Delta was still a flooded bay so almost no humans reside.
Bình Lục rural district is where scientists excavated six bronze drums such as Ngọc Lũ, Vũ Bị and An Lão in the 1960s. This coincides with a number of officials' reports on shipwreck by storms or pirates in this region about the Three Kingdoms period.
Bình Lục is where Nguyễn Khuyến's father was born.
See also
Notes and references
- ^ "Districts of Vietnam". Statoids. Retrieved March 13, 2009.
Further reading
Bibliography
- George Coedes. The Making of South East Asia, 2nd ed. University of California Press, 1983.
- Trần Ngọc Thêm. Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam (The Foundation of Vietnamese Culture), 504 pages. Publishing by Nhà xuất bản Đại học Tổng hợp TPHCM. Saigon, Vietnam, 1995.
- Li Tana (2011). Jiaozhi (Giao Chỉ) in the Han period Tongking Gulf. In Cooke, Nola ; Li Tana ; Anderson, James A. (eds.). The Tongking Gulf Through History. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 39–44. ISBN 9780812205022.
- Li Tana, Towards an environmental history of the eastern Red River Delta, Vietnam, c.900–1400, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014.
- Samuel Baron, Christoforo Borri, Olga Dror, Keith W. Taylor (2018). Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam : Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-501-72090-1.
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| Nam Định province | ||
| Ninh Bình province | ||
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