Documents of Declaration of Title in villages along the coastline of Hau Loc district, Thanh Hoa province.

Abstract

Declaration of Title is the declaration of the King to give a title to a person or a god. This is a special kind of document, which has important value in research of the Vietnamese traditional villages. From the source of documents in the coastline area of Hau Loc district, the author provided vivid information about the worshipping of village gods as well as concepts and beliefs of people from this area, of the origin of some lineage who came to Hau Loc to settle, and of the change in names of administrative units throughout history.