Khoái Châu district
Khoái Châu district
Huyện Khoái Châu | |
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 In the centre of Khoái Châu township. | |
| Nickname(s): "The Waiting Wharf" (Bến đợi) | |
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| Country |  Vietnam |
| Region | Red River Delta |
| Province | Hưng Yên |
| Establishment | 1945 |
| Central agency | RXRG+3PM, ĐT206, Phủ Street, Khoái Châu Township |
| Government | |
| • Type | District People's Committee |
| • Chairman | Phạm Xuân Thắng |
| • People Council's Chairman | Hoàng Văn Tựu |
| • Party Committee's Secretary | Bùi Huy Cường |
| Area | |
| 5,051 sq mi (13,082 km2) | |
| Population (2003) | |
| 189,079 | |
| • Density | 3,740/sq mi (1,445/km2) |
| • Urban | 8,322 |
| • Metro | 180,748 |
| Time zone | UTC+7 (Indochina Time) |
| ZIP code | 178 |
| Area code | 20°52′16″B 105°58′59″Đ |
| Website | Khoaichau.Hungyen.gov.vn |
Khoái Châu is a rural district of Hưng Yên province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam.
History
[edit]Middle ages
[edit]According to researcher Philippe Papin, the Red River Delta at the beginning of Công Nguyên was still a closed bay and the human could not be settled.[1][2] It was not until the period of Đông Ngô state, a small administrative unit called Khoái-châu (快州, "Khoái canton") that actually appeared in documents. According to the presentations of scholars Trần Trí Dõi, Lê Chí Quế and Lê Văn Lan, this name was actually just a Hanese glottography to old name Keluar ("river port") in the Malayo-Polynesian languages which was popular in the ancient Indochina peninsula. It indicated the locality of the left bank of the Red River.[3]
As soon as Prince Ngô Quyền took his autonomy in the Red River Delta, its name was changed to Đằng-châu (滕州, "Đằng canton"). This new way of calling to refer to the fast flowing water of the Red River.
During the Đinh Dynasty, Đằng Châu became the capital of Đằng-đạo (滕道, "Đằng garrison"), which corresponded to most of the modern Hưng Yên province. In 1005, the Early Lê Dynasty changed Đằng Đạo to Thái-bình phủ (太平府, "Thái Bình prefecture"). Until 1222, the Lý Dynasty restored Thái Bình Phủ to Khoái-lộ (快路, "Khoái garrison"). Howeved, in April 1297, the Trần Dynasty merged Khoái Lộ in Thiên-trường phủ-lộ (天長府路, "Thiên Trường prefecture and garrison").
In June 1407, the Minh Dynasty divided Thiên Trường Phủ Lộ into several new administrative units. Khoái Châu has become a part of Kiến-xương phủ (健昌府, "Kiến Xương prefecture"). It means "building the prosperity". However, in 1426, King Lê Lợi personally abolished to set up a temporary administrative unit called Nam-đạo (南道, "South garrison"). But until June 1466, Emperor Quang Thuận re-established Thiên-trường thừa-tuyên (天長承宣, "Thiên Trường garrison"). By 1490, Emperor Hồng Đức re-changed Thiên Trường Thừa Tuyên to Sơn-nam xứ (山南處, "Sơn Nam domain").
In June 1527, Emperor Minh Đức merged Sơn Nam Xứ into Dương-kinh (陽京), the vice capital of Mạc Dynasty's Annam. Although a few decades later, the Revival Lê Dynasty changed it for returning to the old name. In January 1741, under the rule of Emperor Cảnh Hưng, name Khoái-châu phủ (快州府, "Khoái Châu prefecture") had appeared at the first time, but it was a bad type of pun in the eyes of contemporary scholars.[4]
In October 1831, Emperor Minh Mệnh conducted a fierce administrative reform. Accordingly, the entire vast Sơn Nam area was removed. Since then, Khoái Châu Phủ is part of Hưng-yên tỉnh (興安省, "Hưng Yên province").
XX century
[edit]In 1945, the government of the Empire of Vietnam abolished the "phủ" regime. Therefore, all of "phủ" (prefectures) were changed to "huyện" (rural districts). Thus, huyện Khoái-châu (快州縣, "Khoái Châu rural district") has been officially formed. However, during the period of the State of Vietnam, Huyện Khoái Châu was changed to quận Khoái-châu (快州郡, "Khoái Châu district").
On February 24, 1979, the Council of Ministers of Vietnam issued Decision 70-CP on the merger of 14 communes of Văn Yên district to Khoái Châu district to establish Châu Giang rural district (州江縣, huyện Châu-giang).
On July 24, 1999, the Government of Vietnam issued Decree 60/1999/NĐ-CP on the division of Châu Giang district into two new districts of Khoái Châu[5] and Văn Giang.
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XXI century
[edit]On October 24, 2024, the National Assembly Standing Committee of Vietnam issued Resolution 1248/NQ-UBTVQH15 on the arrangement of the commune-level administrative unit of Hưng Yên province in the period of 2023–2025, which takes effect from December 1, 2024.[6] Accordingly, Khoái Châu rural district (快州縣, huyện Khoái-châu) includes :
- 1 township : Khoái Châu (Phố Phủ before).
- 19 communes : An Vĩ, Bình Minh, Chí Minh, Đại Tập, Dân Tiến, Đông Kết, Đông Ninh, Đông Tảo, Đồng Tiến, Liên Khê, Nguyễn Huệ, Ông Đình, Phạm Hồng Thái, Phùng Hưng, Tân Châu, Tân Dân, Thuần Hưng, Tứ Dân, Việt Hòa.
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A folk picture of Dongtao Chicken -
The Khoái Châu District's Martyrs Monument -
Trung Châu village, Đông Kết commune -
Saint Agnès Lê Thị Thành -
Poet and composer Thiên Ân -
Musician Châu Bằng
Culture
[edit]The location of Khoái Châu rural district has long belonged to the most important waterway traffic in the Northern Vietnam, therefore, it has a proud thickness of customs. It is also known as one of the rural districts with the most historical monuments in Vietnam.
- Thổ Khối communal house in Đồng Tiến commune, where there was typical architecture of the Revival Lê Dynasty to honor the brick industry.
- Thuần Hưng commune was said to have been called Đại Mang Bộ, where emperors Trần Thánh Tông and Trần Nhân Tông put a command camp to make important decisions leading to victory.
- Hàm Tử Quan ("Hàm Tử port") in Phạm Hồng Thái commune and Tây Kết in Tứ Dân commune were associated with the victories of the Trần Dynasty against the Mongol forces.
- Giàn River, a small creek was molded on the Nine Tripod Cauldrons (Cửu Đỉnh) of the Nguyễn Dynasty.
- Bãi Sậy ("the mop bund") in Tân Dân commune was associated with commander Nguyễn Thiện Thuật 's uprising from 1883 to 1892.
- Nhất Dạ Lagoon, Dạ Trạch Temple in Dạ Trạch commune and Đa Hòa Temple in Bình Minh commune was said to associate of legend Tiên Dung - Chử Đồng Tử.
Economy
[edit]Đông Tảo commune in Khoái Châu rural district is an administrative unit with a history recorded up to a thousand years. This location is the homeland of the chicken breed which has big feet : Dongtao Chicken (gà Đông Tảo).[citation needed] This breed of chicken is classified as a strategic item of the whole Hưng Yên province and has an export value of tens of millions of US dollars each year.[7]
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Besides, with the advantage of the domain along the Red River, Khoái Châu has a clay residue up to several tens of billion tons, which is known through surveys from the 1930s to 1960s. This makes a very important contribution to the Khoái Châu Brick Brand (thương hiệu Gạch Khoái Châu) existed and developed continuously for many centuries. However, this type of manual bricks are under fierce pressure from industrial brick brands.
Geography
[edit]Topography
[edit]Khoái Châu rural district covers an area of 130,82 km². Due to the characteristics of Hưng Yên province, it is located in the center of the Red River Delta, therefore, its terrain is only low to very low. In particular, the area of Khoái Châu rural district is only from average to very low, even many places are still lower than the sea level and are in the process of being fostered by sediment.
Khoái Châu is on the left bank of the Red River. It borders Văn Giang and Yên Mỹ districts to the north, Ân Thi district to the east, Kim Động district to the south, Hanoi's Thường Tín and Phú Xuyên districts to the west. It has a part of the National Route 34 and the Ring Road 4 of the Hanoi Capital Zone.[8][9] However, it only has a short river called Bần River and a part of the Red River. Besides, there is also a large swamp called Nhất Dạ Lagoon ("the lagoon of one night").
Population
[edit]As of 2020 the rural district had a population of 189,070.[10] In particular, all people are registered as Kẻ Kinh.
According to the 2005 yearbook of the Vietnam Catholic Church,[11] the area of Khoái Châu rural district has all three parishes (An Vỹ, Sài Quất and Trung Châu), which belong the Hưng Yên Deanery of the Thái Bình Cathedral Diocese.
See also
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Notes and references
[edit]- ^ Philippe Papin, Histoire de Hanoï, Fayard, Paris, 2001.
- ^ Pierre Asselin, Pierre Brocheux, Christopher E. Goscha, Pierre Grosser, Annick Guénel, François Guillemot, Andrew Hardy, Michel Hoàng, Pierre Journoud, Anne Marie Moulin, Philippe Papin, Emmanuel Poisson, Dominique Rolland, Hugues Tertrais, Benoît de Tréglodé..., Le Viêt-Nam depuis 2000 ans, De La Republique Eds, Paris, 2017.
- ^ The names of Hưng Yên over the periods
- ^ Đan Sơn (1735 - ?), Sơn-cư tạp-chí (山居雜誌), Đông Kinh, Bắc Hà, An Nam, 1786-9.
- ^ Khoái Châu rural district after 25 years of re-establishment
- ^ Khoái Châu rural district merged 6 commune-level administrative units
- ^ Visiting the homeland of the chickens, which was tributed for kings
- ^ Hanoi takes action to accelerate Ring Road No.4 project
- ^ Construction of key sub-project of Hanoi's Ring Road 4 expected to start in Q4
- ^ Statistical Office of Hưng Yên Province, Statistical Year of Hưng Yên Province 2020, Item of Population, Page 155, July 17, 2021.
- ^ Thái Bình Cathedral Diocese
Further reading
[edit]Bibliography
[edit]- George Coedes. The Making of South East Asia, 2nd ed. University of California Press, 1983.
- Trần Ngọc Thêm. Cơ sở văn hóa Việt Nam (The Foundation of Vietnamese Culture), 504 pages. Publishing by Nhà xuất bản Đại học Tổng hợp TPHCM. Saigon, Vietnam, 1995.
- Li Tana (2011). Jiaozhi (Giao Chỉ) in the Han period Tongking Gulf. In Cooke, Nola ; Li Tana ; Anderson, James A. (eds.). The Tongking Gulf Through History. University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 39–44. ISBN 9780812205022.
- Li Tana, Towards an environmental history of the eastern Red River Delta, Vietnam, c.900–1400, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 2014.
- Samuel Baron, Christoforo Borri, Olga Dror, Keith W. Taylor (2018). Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam : Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-1-501-72090-1.
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