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The name Hạ Long (chữ Hán: 下龍) means "descending dragon". Before the 19th century, the name Hạ Long Bay had not been recorded in the old books of the country. It has been called other names such as An Bang, Lục Thủy, and Vân Đồn. In the late 19th century, the name Hạ Long Bay appeared on the Maritime Map of France.
Hạ Long (Vietnamese: [hâːˀ lawŋm] ⓘ | transl. 'descending dragon') is a first-class provincial city and the capital city of Quảng Ninh province, Vietnam.It was found in 1993, when the old capital, Hòn Gai, was merged with Bãi Cháy, the main tourist area.
Many place-names in Vietnam incorporate the word Long, or Rồng ("dragon" in Vietnamese): Hạ Long Bay (vịnh Hạ Long, lit. "Bay of Descending Dragon"), the section of the Mekong river flowing through Vietnam contains 9 branches and is called Cửu Long ("nine dragons"); Hàm Rồng Bridge (lit."Bridge of Dragon Jaw"), Long Biên Bridge ...
Chử Đồng Tử statue at Dạ Trạch Temple. Chử Đồng Tử (Chữ Hán: 褚童子) is the name of a famous Vietnamese divine being, one of "The Four Immortals" "Tứ bất tử" in traditional Vietnamese mythology. [1]
According to Chinese cosmology, the Heavens are divided into nine palaces; and each of these nine palaces are ruled by a dragon. [34]: 8 These nine dragons are often depicting as either ascending to or descending from the sky; they are also the symbolism of the dynamic powers of the Universe. [34]: 8
The Eighteen Dragon-Subduing Palms (降龍十八掌), also translated as Eighteen Palms to Defeat the Dragon, [4] is based on and named after ideas derived from the ancient divination text Yi Jing. Chronologically, it is first mentioned in Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils as the best known skill of Qiao Feng, the chief of the Beggars' Gang. There were ...
Trần Hưng Đạo (Vietnamese: [ʈə̂n hɨŋ ɗâːwˀ]; 1228–1300), real name Trần Quốc Tuấn (陳國峻), also known as Grand Prince Hưng Đạo (Hưng Đạo Đại Vương – 興道大王), was a Vietnamese royal prince, statesman and military commander of Đại Việt military forces during the Trần dynasty.
Fengenfu Guogong (Wade–Giles: Fêng Ên Fu Kuo Kung), "bulwark duke": Prince of the Blood of sixth rank, with the style of His Highness; only those six highest ranks carried the right to the eight privileges or Ba Fen. to wear the purple button, to wear a three-eyed peacock's feather, to wear embroidered dragon plaque on court robes,