Hoa Lu ancient capital is the place where two temples worship King Dinh Tien Hoang and King Le Dai Hanh

About 90 km from Hanoi, Hoa Lu ancient capital is located on an area of ​​about 300 ha in Truong Yen commune (Hoa Lu, Ninh Binh). In 968, Dinh Bo Linh came to the throne of the emperor, proclaimed Dinh Tien Hoang, and named the country Dai Co Viet. Dinh Tien Hoang chose Hoa Lu as the capital.

Dai Viet history book states: "By the first year of the year of Khai Bao (968), the reign of King Trieu was Tong Thai To, Vuong xung Hoang em was in Hoa Lu cave. Then set up a palace, an imperial regime, set up hundreds of bureaucrats, established a rule and established the name of Dai Thang Minh Emperor. "

The book of the Du address of Nguyen Trai wrote: "Dinh (ie Dinh Tien Hoang) called the country Dai Co Viet, built the capital in Hoa Lu ... Hoa Lu was Dai Hoang, now is Truong Yen." Therefore, Hoa Lu center has a temple of King Dinh Tien Hoang.

In addition, Hoa Lu ancient capital center is also a place of worship of King Le Dai Hanh (Le Hoan). In 980, after being honored by the Queen Mother Duong Thi and some mandarins, Le Hoan was enthroned, established the Le Dynasty and still took Hoa Lu as the capital. King Le Temple is located about 500 meters from King Dinh temple.

King Dinh Tien Hoang temple in the center of Hoa Lu ancient capital.

King Dinh Tien Hoang temple in the center of Hoa Lu ancient capital

Hoa Lu citadel is surrounded by interlaced limestone mountains and artificial walls

Hoa Lu capital is located in Truong Yen commune today, surrounded by a series of arcane rock mountains, majestic landscape. Book 7 Monuments - The famous Ninh Binh scenic spot says: "Hoa Lu capital is a strong army made by nature and man. Unlike every city built in our country, it is Hoa Lu bao. consists of limestone mountains and artificial walls interlocking, interconnected, undulating creating a unique city that nowhere to be found ".

King Dinh Tien Hoang knew how to fully exploit nature to serve people. This architectural style maximizes the strength of human and energy. Just clog the cliffs, which means to add artificial walls to connect the mountains together to have strong walls. The length of mountains makes up about 8 km of nature.

The wall surrounding the capital of Hoa Lu was built with bricks, stone and wood

According to La Dang Bat, author of 7 monuments - famous name of Ninh Binh, after many studies and excavations, Hoa Lu capital has been confirmed to have 13 artificial walls.

The length of the artificial walls is about 2 km, the shortest wall is 65 m. These walls are raised from 8 to 10 m high, with a section of soil covered with bricks, and a brick bundle; there is an inner section of bricks, outside of the earth; There is a section of rock and soil covering and some sections are completely covered with soil. The foundation is paved with wooden sections. Currently traces of 13 city walls remain.
Walls of nature are mountain ranges, with tops as high as 200 m like the Mang Mang tops, making the wall into Hoa Lu capital, unevenly, undulating but superficial and majestic.

It can be said that Hoa Lu wall is a wall of creation and people.

Natural limestone mountains become an important part of the round of the capital of Hoa Lu

Natural limestone mountains become an important part of the round of the capital of Hoa Lu

The capital city of Hoa Lu has a larger inner city than the Outer City

Outer citadel is about 140 hectares wide, in Yen Thuong and Yen Thanh villages (Truong Yen commune). This is the place to build the main palaces, in which the area of ​​Dinh and Le temple is the midpoint, where Dinh Tien Hoang flags the country.

The Citadel is larger than Ngoai citadel, with an area of ​​about 160 ha, located in the northwest, now belongs to Chi Phong village (Truong Yen commune), which is the residence of families of mandarins and warehouse workers.

Calling the city, Ngoai is calling from the inside to the outside, not meaning the area into the main or secondary.
The Citadel and the Outer Citadel are two isolated areas but close to each other and can be easily accessed by a pine mountain alley called Quen Vong.

Under the reign of King Le Dai Hanh, the king built many more palaces in Hoa Lu capital, including palaces with gold and silver inlaid columns.

After winning the invasion of Tong, the country was peaceful, King Le Dai Hanh built many more magnificent palaces, making Hoa Lu capital more and more complete. In particular, there are many palaces built with gold inlaid, silver inlaid, roofing with silver tiles.

The book of Dai Viet history signed by Ngo Si Lien recorded: "Giap Than 5th year (984): Building many palaces, making Bach Bao Thien Tuoc electricity at Dai Van mountain, electric pillars inlaid with gold, silver and making places to worship. on the East side is Phong Luu Palace, on the West side is Tu Hoa Palace, on the left side is Bong Lai Palace, on the right side is on the An Lac Palace, then on Dai Van Floor, and then on Truong Xuan Palace as the king's sleeping place, next to Truong Dien Palace Spring construction of Long Loc electricity, roofing with silver tiles ".

The capital of 3 dynasties of Dinh, Tien Le and Ly

After the death of King Le Long Dinh, in early November 1009, Ly Cong Uan was cultivated by monks and promoted the martial arts style in the reign of the establishment. The Ly Dynasty was officially erected from there, along with the capital Hoa Lu. Thus, Hoa Lu capital recorded the birth of a new dynasty.

Thanh Tâm