Lê Quang Định and Geography Book of Unified Hoàng Việt (The end).
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Lê Quang Định and Geography Book of Unified Hoàng Việt (The end)
Geography Book of Unified Hoàng Việt of Lê Quang Định was the first ones of the Nguyễn Dynasty that recorded the important traffic routes of our country in the early 19th century. Only about Quảng Đức Palace (now Thừa Thiên Huế Province), the author has provided us with in detail overview of the road and river way. Not only the route, but also many other objects, especially the relics of temples, pagodas, shrines, along with specific legends in the early 19th century, with their river names, mountain names, village names, market names, boat names. ... were born tens or hundreds of years ago that Dương Văn An and Lê Quý Đôn talked about in the works Ô Châu cận lục and Phủ biên tạp lục, today they are still, or lost, or changed. Those are all valuable documents that help us understand our homeland better, and think about how great the pioneering work of our ancestors was...