Hồng Lĩnh (
Chữ Hán
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: 鴻嶺) is a mountain range in
Hà Tĩnh Province Hà is a Vietnamese given name, male or female, meaning "river".
Hà is a Vietnamese 'surname' (during French colonialism). The name is transliterated as He in Chinese and Ha in Korean.
Ha is the anglicized variation of the surname Hà. It is ...
,
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Etymology
From the modern perspective, its name Hồng-lĩnh (national voice) or Hông-lịnh (local voice) is often understood as "the red river". For example : "''O my
Ha-tịnh, the
blue river is reflecting the red mountain''". However, this is the wrong way of interpreting, which is derived from the signing in
Hanese characters.
Before the
19th century
The 19th century began on 1 January 1801 (represented by the Roman numerals MDCCCI), and ended on 31 December 1900 (MCM). It was the 9th century of the 2nd millennium. It was characterized by vast social upheaval. Slavery was Abolitionism, ...
, this area still used indigenous languages to call the addresses in it. According to that nature, the mountainous area is called as rú Hống or ngàn Hống roughly by the locals. This is a word that is now lost, which means "the mountains of the
phoenixs".
Because according to the legend of the
Laotian nation, this mountainous area is where the ten paradise
princess
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es have come to the
sông Rung to bathe. However, the magic shirt of the
youngest princess was robbed by a
woodcutter, so she stayed with the mortal. That is why there are 9 peaks today.
History
The mountains famously have 99 peaks.
Nguyễn Huệ
Emperor Quang Trung (; vi-hantu, 光中, 1753 – 16 September 1792) or Nguyễn Huệ ( vi-hantu, 阮惠), also known as Nguyễn Quang Bình ( vi-hantu, 阮光平), or Hồ Thơm (chữ Hán: 胡𦹳) was the second emperor of the Tây Sơn dy ...
built the Trung Đô Citadel on Hồng Lĩnh mountain. The mountains were the place of retirement of
Nguyễn Du
Nguyễn Du (; 3 January 1766 – 16 September 1820), courtesy name Tố Như () and art name Thanh Hiên (), is a celebrated Vietnamese poet and musician. He is most known for having written the epic poem '' The Tale of Kiều''.
Biography
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. In earlier days villagers went into the Hồng Lĩnh mountains at times of poor crops for hunting and harvesting
rattan
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and leaves to make raincoats and hats. Hồng Lĩnh Mountain is now suffering ecological damage from people harvesting ''mật nhân'' (''
Eurycoma longifolia
''Eurycoma longifolia'' (commonly called , Malaysian ginseng or long jack) is a flowering plant in the family Simaroubaceae. It is native to Indochina (Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam) and Indonesia (the islands of Bor ...
'').
Hong Linh Mountain destroyed because people thirsty for panacea
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See also
* Lam river
Notes and references
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Mountains of Vietnam
Landforms of Hà Tĩnh province