Temple steles win UNESCO documentary heritage status

Exchange Links with us

Latest Comments

Cathay Life Insurance has asset value of $53 million Nice post about [url="http://www.clickindia.com/se...
Las Vegas Sands Corp mulls casino project in HCM City nice article!!
Indian naval ships visit Vietnam You site its great,i will bokmarked your site,than...
Cathay Life Insurance has asset value of $53 million hi, does anyone know any really good life insuranc...
WB helps create flower growing alliance http://www.japanonlineflorist.com Order online to ...
Foreign ownership ratio in aviation sector may be lowered What is Most Attractive Gifts for Actresses? http:...
State bank calls for tighter curbs on dollar credit growth p90xp90x p90x cheap ed hardy clothing http://www....
JETRO: Vietnams economy recovers rapidly When you are in not good state and have no money t...

Most Read Tags

User Menu

Right Menu

Link Exchange

Exchange with us:

Gutter Cleaning In Atlanta

Gastrodirect

Link Exchange

Home

Sport

Temple steles win UNESCO documentary heritage status

Written by Vietnam Dailynews Wednesday, 10 March 2010 09:15

TRANSLATE

Temple steles win UNESCO documentary heritage status

Eighty-two doctor laureate steles in Van Mieu ( Temple of Literature ) in Hanoi has become Vietnam ’s second historical documentary heritage to be listed in the list of UNESCO’s Global Memory of the World Programme.

This was announced at the fourth general meeting of UNESCO’s Memory of the World Committee for Asia/Pacific in Macau , China , on March 9, said the Hanoi People’s Committee.

The UNESCO recognition is an important event for the capital city of Hanoi on the threshold of its 1,000 th birthday.

The 82 stone steles are carved with the names of 2,313 doctors who passed the court examinations between 1442 and 1779 (some material recorded the period between 1484 and 1514) under the Early Le, Mac and Late Le dynasties.

The steles, which bear the names of Trang Nguyen, Bang Nhan, Tham Hoa, Hoang Giap (the first, second, third and fourth winning categories at the royal competition), sit on top of stone turtles.

The steles are different from those in other Asian countries, including China , which influenced Vietnamese feudal education.

They are mainly rectangular parallelepipes (a polyhedron consisting of six faces that are parallelograms) while the Chinese have varied forms, including square parallelepipes and cylinders.

The Temple of Literature was founded in 1070 as a Confucian temple. Parts of the complex date to the earliest period, although much of the architecture dates from the Ly (1010-1225) and Tran (1225-1400) dynasties.

In 1076, Vietnam ’s first university, the Quoc Tu Giam or Imperial Academy , was established within the temple to educate bureaucrats, nobles, royalty and the elite.

The university functioned from 1076 to 1779. The doctor laureate tests were extremely difficult, so few students passed. Each year, the names of those who did were engraved on the steles./.

Source: http://en.vietnamplus.vn/Home/Temple-steles-win-UNESCO-documentary-heritage-status/20103/7079.vnplus

Tags: