Learn about Ke Bang place name

Legend has it that Ke Bang was originally the Hua Pang citadel, one of the field capitals of the Thuc An Duong Vuong dynasty. Ke Bang was also the former seat of Quy Chau prefecture, so it was also called Phu Bang. Since then, despite being located in a remote mountainous area, Ke Bang still had the stature of a town.

Geographically, Ke Bang belongs to Dong Lac land (now Chau Hanh commune), where National Highway 48 runs close to the bank of Hieu river. This river originates from the Laos - Vietnam border. To the Northwest, it divides the watershed with Chu river (Thanh Hoa). The basin of Hieu river is large, including the mountainous area of ​​Northwest Nghe An, so it receives water from hundreds of streams. In Quy Chau area alone, Hieu river has 5 tributaries (Nam Hat, Nam Quang, Nam Cuom, Nam Chang, Nam Ton). They carry alluvium to build up many valleys and fertile fields. Therefore, this place is one of the first cradles of mankind. And since ancient times, Ke Bang has been a town in a rice-growing region of the Thai people. After a long period of massive migration from the lowlands, by 2002, the Thai people in Quy Chau still accounted for nearly 40,000 people, about 77% of the district's total population, so in the past, Thai culture occupied a dominant position here. Their outstanding feature is that along with wet rice cultivation, they have the brocade weaving profession. Ke Bang town is a production and processing center: weaving, knitting, carpentry, and exchanging food, foodstuffs, consumer goods, most notably rice, fabrics and ironware.

When the French came to rule, they advocated "using Muong mandarins to govern Muong people", so on September 3, 1891, the Governor-General of Indochina issued a Circular abolishing the system of temporary mandarins in the mountainous areas and returning to the system of local mandarins, in order to restrain ethnic minorities in the local mandarin system to easily dominate and exploit this rich Western region. After that, the capital of Quy Chau was moved to Thai Hoa, but Ke Bang was still called Phu Bang and after the August Revolution (1945), it returned to being the district capital of Quy Chau. On April 19, 1963, from Quy Chau, two new districts, Que Phong and Quy Hop, were separated. Ke Bang is still the current town of Quy Chau district.

Chu Trong Huyen