Commemorating the 140th anniversary of King Ham Nghi's Can Vuong Edict

In a solemn and emotional atmosphere, the Party Committee, government and people of Cam Lo commune offered incense to commemorate and show gratitude to the ancestors who sacrificed for a great cause.

The delegation vows to continue to promote the revolutionary tradition, unite as one, preserve and promote the national cultural identity; step up the work of building and developing the homeland to become increasingly rich, beautiful and civilized, worthy of the land that was once the capital of the resistance war.

140 years ago, after the fall of Hue Citadel in 1885, the young patriotic king Ham Nghi and his loyal ministers left Hue Citadel for Tan So Citadel, now in Mai Dan village, Cam Lo commune, to establish a career.

Here, on July 13, 1885, King Ham Nghi issued a decree calling on the people of the three regions to rise up against the French colonialists to "turn chaos into order, turn danger into peace, and restore the country's borders". That call sparked a patriotic movement with hundreds of uprisings breaking out, gathering tens of thousands of scholars and people to rise up against the French colonialists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Can Vuong Edict was not only a call from a young patriotic king, but also a sacred call in the hour of national danger, a precious legacy of the indomitable spirit of the Vietnamese people fighting against foreign invaders.

Previously, in 1883, a number of patriotic mandarins and the war faction of the Nguyen Dynasty built Tan So citadel in Cam Lo as a reserve capital to prepare for a long-term resistance war.

In 1888, the patriotic king Ham Nghi was captured by the French army. On January 13, 1889, the king was exiled to the capital of Algeria, Algiers, and died there in 1944.

Tan So Citadel was ranked as a National Historical Relic in 1995. In July 2020, the temple of King Ham Nghi and the Can Vuong generals was inaugurated at the relic site. The king's tablet was brought from The Mieu inside Hue Imperial Citadel to worship at the temple.

Source: https://baolaocai.vn/ky-niem-140-nam-ngay-vua-ham-nghi-ban-chieu-can-vuong-post648642.html