Staff of the Hue City Museum of History offer incense and flowers to Phan Boi Chau at the Phan Boi Chau Memorial Site (Phan Boi Chau Street, Thuan Hoa Ward). Photo: BTLS

Mr. Nguyen Duc Loc - Director of Hue City History Museum emphasized this at the ceremony commemorating the 85th anniversary of the death of patriot Phan Boi Chau (1940 - 2025) which took place on the morning of November 21.

The ceremony was organized by the Hue City Museum of History with the participation of representatives of departments, experts, researchers, representatives of Phan Boi Chau's family and many students.

Phan Boi Chau (1867-1940) whose birth name was Phan Van San, his pen name was Sao Nam, was born into a family with Confucian traditions in Dan Nhiem village, Xuan Hoa commune, Nam Dan district (now Van An commune), Nghe An province. With his enthusiasm and noble ideals, Phan Boi Chau traveled and worked from North to South, founded and led many patriotic organizations and movements such as "Duy Tan Association" (1904), Dong Du movement (1905), "Viet Nam Quang Phuc Association"... From a patriotic feudal intellectual, Phan Boi Chau became a bourgeois democratic revolutionary and stepped into the threshold of the proletarian revolution.

After many years of patriotic activities, in 1925, Phan Boi Chau was arrested by the French colonialists in Shanghai (China) and imprisoned in Hanoi . Under the pressure of the people's struggle movement across the country, the French colonialists had to pardon and detain Phan in Hue. During his 15 years in Hue, Phan Boi Chau lived a simple and harmonious life in the love of the people of Hue and was affectionately called "Old Man Ben Ngu". Although living in the situation of "fish in a bowl, bird in a cage", Phan Boi Chau still inspired, inspired and awakened the spirit of patriotism and sense of responsibility to all classes of people, especially the youth and students such as comrade Nguyen Chi Dieu, General Secretary Le Duan, General Vo Nguyen Giap... On October 29, 1940, Phan Boi Chau breathed his last at the thatched house on Ben Ngu slope.

According to Mr. Nguyen Duc Loc, with gratitude for the great contributions and achievements of Mr. Phan in the patriotic struggle in the early 20th century, the activities commemorating the 85th anniversary of the death of patriot Phan Boi Chau show the remembrance and honor of his noble life, pure morality, pure soul and full of spirit.

Visit sketches of Phan Boi Chau drawn by students of Phan Sao Nam Secondary School

Earlier, on the same morning, the Hue City Museum of History also held a flower and incense offering ceremony to commemorate the 85th anniversary of the death of patriot Phan Boi Chau at the Phan Boi Chau Memorial Site (Phan Boi Chau Street, Thuan Hoa Ward). Along with that, it organized an exhibition of sketches by students of Phan Sao Nam Secondary School with works revolving around the theme "Phan Boi Chau Heritage".

On this occasion, Hue City History Museum organized a meeting to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Vietnam Cultural Heritage Day (November 23, 2005 - November 23, 2025). The meeting aimed to express gratitude, arouse awareness, responsibility, and professional ethics for the team of people who have been and are contributing to the cause of conservation and museums.

N. MINH

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