Chu Huy Man Street - Potential for suburban tourism

(Baonghean) -I love the windy road along the dike in this summer; on one side is the bustling countryside, the green of trees and fruits; on the other side is the wind playing with the waves of the river mouth. The wide, modern asphalt road bears the name of the famous General as if to carry the pride of building a new life in his homeland: Chu Huy Man Street, Hung Hoa Commune, Vinh City...

Since ancient times, the urban areas of our country have been hamlets and villages, crowded together in places near the "river" and near the "market" to form prosperous towns and cities, creating the vitality of the suburbs. Everyone knows that hundreds of years ago, when foreign powers were still occupying the land, Hung Hoa was a fishing village, a sedge weaving village, with salty and sour fields and dilapidated thatched houses. After the revolution, the village in Yen Truong commune gradually revived to become a type 1 suburban commune that is developing like today.

Chu Huy Man Street.

Connecting a tourist road along Lam River, from Dung Quyet Street (Ben Thuy) to the end of Phong Hao Hamlet (Hung Hoa) towards Cua Hoi - Chu Huy Man Street, 3,600 meters long, was given a street name sign in March 2013. I wonder if when the 16-year-old Chu Van Dieu (birth name of General Chu Huy Man; he changed his name in 1935) joined the revolution, was this road a dike or just a trail along the riverbank? But now walking on the road, looking up to Ben Thuy - Dung Quyet, looking up to Truong Thi - Yen Dung, imagining the day of the Nghe Tinh Soviet 1930 - 1931, on this road, the 17-year-old party member, deputy head of the self-defense force of Chu Van Dieu commune, led the farmers of Yen Luu commune (now Hung Hoa) to raise high the hammer and sickle flag, bustlingly gathering workers and farmers to demand the right to live.

Now, Nghe An people are certainly proud to introduce to friends and visitors to Nghe An about the Lam River route, which increasingly proves its tourism potential, rich in relics and ecological landscapes on both sides. Just counting the more than three and a half kilometers of Chu Huy Man Street alone, there are many historical evidences of conquering nature and defeating the enemy. The land and people are preserving and multiplying the cultural values ​​that have been distilled over many generations at the mouth of the river, where the clear and muddy streams flow into the ocean.

This is Hung Hoa fuel depot, the main target of the US aircraft bombing that opened the war of destruction in the North, and our anti-aircraft artillery pinned down the enemy from the sky, destroying 3 aircraft on August 5, 1964, creating a victory that thrilled the army and people, marking a glorious page in the heroic history of the nation against the US. This is the wharf for ships to deliver goods, whose weather and sunshine at the river mouth have been tested for decades, now becoming a fairy-tale "arm" for you to step up on a clear moonlit night to catch the wind, listening to those concretes, irons and steels whispering stories of the years... And also, the small market with rustic features by the river, bunches of water spinach, bunches of onions, bunches of areca nuts, shrimps and prawns... still belong to that land and river, making every morning the sound of the local dialect of Chan Phuc - Hoan Chau stir. Is this the market that proves the hard-working, hard-working people of the countryside, clinging to make a living at the sea, but who knows since when the market has been called Tru market? The hustle and bustle of the morning is only a moment, then the market is over to be quiet from the "day nap", giving way to the liveliness of the Lam River, the sound of the fishermen's oars tapping the sides of the bamboo boats, the chirping of larks flying from the wild green islands to the countryside. As soon as the morning sun rises, the riverbank along the road is covered with green grass, and the herd of cows frolics, an important livestock sector of the suburban area of ​​Hung Hoa. Next to the dense green acacia forest, there are countless flocks of white ducks from new farms...

The suburbs evoke distant nostalgia for urban streets. But the suburbs are also where we can feel the flourishing development of a young city. Let's temporarily "say goodbye" to the feelings of the vast natural scenery on the East side of Chu Huy Man Street, to come to the emotions of the vibrant life on the West side of the street: The newly built modern office buildings and houses with fresh tiled roofs have gradually "painted" the space with the strong features of villages and communes in Hung Hoa, which will one day not far away become wards and become blocks. But perhaps the dreamy homeland in the suburbs will be preserved forever by the highlights of relics and landscapes built, restored and preserved from cultural awareness and spiritual consciousness.

Campus and Memorial House of General Chu Huy Man.

Standing on Chu Huy Man Street, at the intersection opposite the "three gates" to visit Tru Market, one can clearly see the undulating and curved roof of the legendary Ba Co Temple built around the 16th century. This is the temple to worship Princess Que Hoa and the Le Nhu ancestors from the Le Trung Hung Dynasty who appeared to help the people, their achievements are recorded in 3 royal decrees from several Nguyen Dynasty kings, and are still respectfully kept at the temple. Further down the road, next to the road is the General Chu Huy Man Memorial House in an area of ​​7,743m2, on the land of the family where he was born and raised, which will tomorrow become a center for revolutionary tradition education of the suburban commune, and a meaningful stop on the pilgrimage to the roots of tourists along the Lam River. The same turn to the General Chu Huy Man Memorial House is the entrance to the Phong Hao sedge mat craft village, a traditional craft that is centuries old. The craft of Hung Hoa sedge mats is still faithful to the tradition of wading through the sedge and jute fields and working tirelessly on the manual loom every night. Several generations of artisan weavers, without any advice from anyone, in difficult times still carefully crafted each thread and each pattern for the mat product without caring about the price or the other. Families with enough to eat, well-off families or even rich people, did not come from the craft of weaving mats, but when it comes to giving up the craft, everyone is filled with regret... Therefore, in the strategy for developing traditional craft villages in Vinh City, there has been a focus on upgrading the Hung Hoa sedge mat craft village into a "tour" product - a cultural tourism route of Vietnamese villages...

That is just a sketch of a road that is “carrying” a suburban belt of Vinh City. I would like to leave my feelings to you when one day you come, walk along Chu Huy Man Street, have a “conversation” with the land and people here, I am sure you will also share the pride of such a meaningful road for the future of Vinh City!

Sam Temple