Ba De Temple

At the foot of the mountain namely Doc, a small temple hide modestly in cliff. It is Ba De temple, a famous one for sacredness.

Legend told that Trinh Giang Lord while was in his royal trip around the region, saw a beautiful girl cutting grass on the hill. The Lord raped the village girl of Chai village. When she was pregnant, the Lord had gone to his palace. Under the village rules, the ill-fated girl had to have her hair cut and applied lime, carried stone and sank down into the sea. She was the victim of an injustice which was gone through the sky and her miraculous spirited on the sea waves to help the village got out of dangers. Do Son people set up a temple to worship her at the foot of Doc mountain called Ba De temple. Ba De Legend was recorded in the first book- La Legende de Ba De by a French Orientalist - Panh Mumier, published by Ha Noi IDEO print house in 1930. After that it modulated to a silent film and showed the same of time with the film 'Field of Ghost' in which Nguyen Tuan played the main character.

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Overall introduction to Do Son township

Brilliant morning sunshine pouring down the surface of Do Son sea as twinkling stars, pines attractively rustling in the rising winds, and small waves crashing on to the beach all create a Do Son township with a grandiose, magnificent but mysterious and poetic national community. Anyone who comes to Do Son, at least can look once towards the horizon far away, listen to the sorrowful love story that happened at Ba De temple, and put your feet on Hon Dau holy land. And, you will especially witness the heroic Do Son changing its image by exploiting and mobilizing strengths of a marine economic region.

- Geographical Location: 22 km away from the city center in the Southeast
- Natural area: 31 sq.km
- Population: 35,000 people
- Administration structure: four wards and one commune
- Annual economic growth: 16 percent
- Economic structure: tourism and services: 67.2 percent
- Fisheries and agriculture: 25 percent
- Industry: 7.8 percent

The beautiful Do Son is located along the South China Sea with a row of small but long mountains running in the Northeast - Southwest direction, which look like nine dragons heading themselves to Hon Dau, vying for a pearl. In a distance, highly emerge two sandbanks at the estuary of Van Uc and Thai Binh rivers, which is called Song Ngu hill or Con Khoai, Con Dua. Do Son is a beautiful landscape with various natural resources of high socio-economic values. The landscape and its values have always been the Do Son people's precious material and spiritual heritages.

Do Son officially established on March 14th 1963 belong to Hai Phong city consists of Do Son Township, Van Son and Ngoc Hai communes. After many times joined and separated, until June 6th 1988, Do Son was re-established with Do Son township and Bang La commune according to the Decision No.100/QD-HDBT.

Hai Phong People's Committee issued the Decision No.705/QD-UB on April 3rd 2002 to approve the 'Planning for Do Son Commune until 2020'. Accordingly, Do Son is a satellite urban area of the central Hai Phong, a center for local and international tourists, and a strategic location of the national security and defense. The commune is also responsible for developing marine fishing, fishery farming and salt producing. The decision also mentions its functions (including the tourism area, urban area, administration central area and the entertainment area) and the orientation to develop the infrastructure such as traffic, soil, water supply, electricity and environment protection.

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