Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the death of patriot Phan Boi Chau

(Baonghean.vn) - On the morning of November 10 (ie September 29 of the lunar calendar), the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism held an incense offering ceremony to commemorate the 75th death anniversary of patriot Phan Boi Chau at his memorial house in Nam Dan district.

Attending the ceremony were comrades: Ho Phuc Hop - Member of the Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee's Mass Mobilization Commission, Dinh Thi Le Thanh - Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee, representatives of the Provincial People's Committee Office, a number of related departments and branches, leaders of Nam Dan district, Board of Directors of Phan Boi Chau and Sao Nam High Schools, Vietnam - Japan Friendship Association, and Phan Boi Chau High School Alumni Association.

Delegates attending the memorial service.

Phan Boi Chau's real name was Phan Van San, his pen name was Sao Nam, born on December 26, 1867 in a Confucian family in Sa Nam village, Dong Liet commune, Nam Dan district, Nghe An province.

Since his youth, the folk songs had nurtured the fighting spirit in Nho San. When he became the Head of San, "a famous name in the literary world", that fighting spirit became even more intense and urged Phan Boi Chau to "lightly brush off his fame, the country must repay".

Scholar Phan Boi Chau (1867 - 1940). Photo: Internet

Place of worship of Phan Boi Chau in Nam Dan town.

To find a way to save the country, during nearly 30 years of working with many hardships, Phan Boi Chau's footsteps went through many places: from the North to the South, Tokyo, Shanghai, Que Viet, sometimes in Japan, sometimes back to Thailand...

With a policy of saving the country in a violent direction, Phan Boi Chau founded Duy Tan Association, Viet Nam Quang Phuc Association, and then Viet Nam Quoc Dan Dang to gather forces to fight with armed revolutionary forces and ask for foreign aid.

Among those movements, the one that left the deepest mark was the Dong Du movement. Although it was not successful, the movement laid the foundation for changes in our country in the early 20th century; contributed to training a team of intellectuals ready to accept the path of proletarian revolution, and many of them later became key figures of the Vietnamese Revolution such as Le Hong Son, Ho Tung Mau, Vuong Thuc Oanh, Lam Duc Thu, Ho Hoc Lam, Nguyen Duc Cong, Nguyen Thuc Duong...

In particular, this is an important link, a milestone marking the friendship between Vietnam and Japan in the fields of culture and education, and until now, the Dong Du movement still retains its value in the cause of national development.

Comrade Ho Phuc Hop and comrade Dinh Thi Le Thanh offered incense to commemorate Mr. Phan.

On June 30, 1925, Phan Boi Chau was arrested in Shanghai (China) and brought back to Vietnam by the French colonialists, tried at the Hanoi Criminal Court, and then exiled to Hue. Even as the Old Man of Ben Ngu, Phan Boi Chau was still filled with affection, hope, and trust in the younger generation and in the success of the revolution.

On the morning of October 29, 1940, the 29th day of the 9th month of the Canh Thin year, he breathed his last at the thatched house on Ben Ngu slope (Hue).

Phan Boi Chau was not only a revolutionary, but also a patriotic poet and writer. His poetic legacy left behind for posterity is truly a huge volume with thousands of works, in all genres: prose, poetry, prose, parallel sentences, steles, plays, etc., contributing to beautifying the flower garden of Vietnamese literature in the early 20th century.

Phan Boi Chau devoted his entire life to the national liberation movement. Although his cause of national salvation was not yet successful, his life of activities was a bright star in the sky of the Vietnamese revolution in the early years of the 20th century./.

An Nhan