Uncle Ho's Temple is located in Ba Chan A hamlet, Chau Thoi commune, Vinh Loi district, Bac Lieu province. In 1969, hearing the news that our beloved Uncle Ho had passed away forever, the soldiers and people of Chau Thoi commune were extremely shocked and pained. With Uncle Ho's love for the people of the South, the people here have a common wish to build Uncle Ho's Temple right in their homeland to give him incense day and night. Thousands of officials and people in the commune and district were not afraid of sacrifice and hardship, contributing day and night to build Uncle Ho's Temple right on the land filled with smoke, fire, bullets and bombs of the heroic Chau Thoi... In March 1970, Chau Thoi Commune Party Committee implemented the policy of Vinh Loi District Party Committee to build Uncle Ho's Temple. After the temple was burned by the enemy twice, the people as well as the Chau Thoi Commune Party Committee and Vinh Loi District Party Committee were determined to build a solid temple with cement and iron bars... The job of buying materials for construction was difficult because we had to go through many enemy posts, but with the motivation of loving Uncle Ho, the people of Chau Thoi commune volunteered to buy materials, each person buying a little. Buy and make many times. When preparations were complete, at 10:00 a.m. on April 25, 1972, Chau Thoi Commune Party Committee held a groundbreaking ceremony to build Uncle Ho's Temple. After 24 days and nights without fear of enemy artillery shells, the people and Chau Thoi Commune Party Committee completed the construction of the Temple. On the morning of May 19, 1972 (Uncle's birthday), the inauguration ceremony of Uncle Ho's Temple was conducted in the joy and solemnity of over a thousand people in Chau Thoi Commune and soldiers of Vinh Loi district. Building a temple right in the enemy's heart was difficult, protecting the temple was even more difficult. After the temple was completed, the enemy regularly mobilized means to attack, but with all the affection of Southerners for the beloved old father of the nation, guerrilla forces, and local forces. Vinh Loi and the Temple Protection Team are determined to protect Uncle Ho's Temple. Grateful for the great contributions and shining revolutionary moral example of beloved President Ho Chi Minh, over the years, Bac Lieu province has always paid attention to restoration and upgrading. Up to now, Uncle Ho's Temple in Bac Lieu has been built on an 11,000m2 campus with main structures such as: Uncle Ho's Temple, Temple Covering House, Exhibition House, Hall and office, service area. The garden is planted with many types of trees. In particular, the relic's campus stands out with its fragrant lotus pond. Uncle Ho's Temple in Chau Thoi is considered one of the most beautiful Uncle Ho's Temples in the Mekong Delta region. In addition to the main area of the Temple, there are also gardens and halls to screen documentaries that introduce to visitors an overview of Uncle Ho's background and career. The temple is built of bricks, wooden beams, and has a porch and balcony with a flat roof in front. More than 300 documents and artifacts reflecting the process of Chau Thoi commune people fighting to protect the temple and documents about President Ho Chi Minh's revolutionary life are kept at the exhibition house. Uncle Ho's Temple in Bac Lieu was ranked as a national historical relic by the Ministry of Culture and Information in 1998. This is the pride of the army and people of Bac Lieu, every year on major holidays and days off. Especially on Uncle Ho's birthday, there were many tourists and people visiting. Source: Bac Lieu Tourism
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The Noc Mang field site belongs to Phong Thanh village, Gia Rai district, today is hamlet 4, Phong Thanh A commune, Gia Rai district, Bac Lieu province. In the past, this place was a large swampy area, with many forests of melaleuca, bamboo, and reeds growing together, all year round only birds and poisonous snakes sheltered. People who went to reclaim the land to live and explore this area built leaf-roofed huts to shelter from rain and sun and avoid poisonous snakes. Because the land is swampy, it is impossible to build houses like on dry land, people cut trees to make stakes and stick them in the muddy ground, then put crutches on top as floors to build houses. The site of Noc Cang field is also associated with the indomitable struggle of farmers against the oppression and exploitation of the French colonialists and landlords. Mr. Muoi Chuc's family put in a lot of sweat and effort to transform this field into a rice field. While everyone was living and working peacefully, the landlords colluded with the tyrants and the French colonialists to use many cunning tricks to steal rice and land from Mr. Muoi Chuc's family. (In fact, the land Mr. Muoi Chuc and his brothers worked on was left by their ancestors who explored it). In 1927, after many cunning and sinister tricks to take over the land of Mr. Nguyen Van Chuc's family (Muoi Chuc), a landowner in Ca Mau, Ma Ngan, tricked him into selling the land to the wife of a district official, Ho. Thi Tran. After buying land but not being able to get it due to Mr. Muoi Chuc's family vehemently protesting, they borrowed the power of the French colonialists to suppress it in order to take the fields and rice of Mr. Muoi Chuc's family. So his family's struggle against the oppression of the French colonialists happened bloody on February 17, 1928. In this fight back, Mr. Muoi Chuc's family lost 4 people: Mr. Muoi Chuc, Ms. Muoi Chuc (with her unborn child), Mr. Nam Man, Mr. Sau Nhin. On the colonial side, one French official was seriously injured and died the next day, and several others were injured. The remaining members of Mr. Muoi Chuc's family were all arrested and convicted of "rioting, opposing public authority, and murder". Not to be deterred by that, his family continued to file a complaint... The press also strongly condemned it. In response to public opinion, the French government finally had to return the land to Mr. Muoi Chuc's family. The Noc Cang field incident is evidence of the crimes of the French colonial regime and its lackeys of mandarins, demonstrating the anti-oppression spirit of honest and simple farmers. Although the struggle of the farmers in the Noc Mang area was a spontaneous struggle, it demonstrated the struggle of the farming class in the Mekong Delta at that time, demonstrating the resilient spirit and kindness of the people. Southern farmers, contributing to the resilient and indomitable tradition of the Vietnamese people. On August 30, 1991, the historical event of Noc Mang field was recognized by the Ministry of Culture and Information as a historical - cultural relic, this relic is located in hamlet 4, Phong Thanh A commune, Gia Rai district, province Bac Lieu. After more than eighty years, Noc Mang field still retains the tragic song of the past, that event has entered the nation's history with the image of simple, honest and full of devotion farmers in Bac Lieu. Source: History of Gia Rai District Party Committee
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