tailieunhanh - Position and identity of geo culture of Phủ Giầy

This article is written by a junior of Trần Huy Liệu, who is not in the same village but was born in his same district in Nam Định province, and has visited his hometown several times, therefore, the author has inwardslooking and exotic looking at Phủ Giầy. | Vietnam Social Sciences, No. 6(164) - 2014 POSITION AND IDENTITY OF GEO-CULTURE OF PHỦ GIẦY TRAN QUOC VUONG* NGUYEN HONG KIEN* Everybody knows the great historian, revolutionary - the pioneer of Vietnamese revolutionary history - Trần Huy Liệu, who was born in Phủ Giầy. Writing on his village, he said in simple manner: "My hometown is in the delta of Nam Định province, with nothing special, only sandy field filled with corn, potatoes, cotton and beans that made ground never peaceful. It is similar to other villages with bamboo, billabong and empty shrines where the God of the soil has been worshipped." Many people have known, talked and visited it because it is the hometown of Goddess Liễu Hạnh, who was famous in Vietnamese mythology, and also has a temple where believers worship in its festival for 10 days annually.(1) This article is written by a junior of Trần Huy Liệu, who is not in the same village but was born in his same district in Nam Định province, and has visited his hometown several times, therefore, the author has inwardslooking and exotic looking at Phủ Giầy. Phủ Giầy is really sandy field. There is a field where the grave of Goddess Liễu is located in Kim Thái commune, Vụ Bản district, hitherto known as sandy field. The elderly also says this area has four large mounds of sand dunes with their traces such as Nam Miếu mound which is now Bốn village with a long sand bank running 86 through Vân Tiến, Tây Miếu mound which is the banian tree area of Ba village, Đông Miếu mound which is now Vân Cát village, and Vân Cầu mound which is now in Vân Cát.(2) Sandy soil here, in fact, was considered as a mixture of river sand and beach sand by the scientists. This means it was an estuary – coastal area. Sediment in this delta is the youngest in the North Delta, mainly sand - fine-grained silt. Geographers and oceanographers in the world have demonstrated that, due to ocean currents, alluvium of river and sea has been "pushed" from the northeast to the .