The unique "mountain of poetry" relic in Vietnam

Non Nuoc Mountain ( Ninh Binh city, Ninh Binh) has the ancient name Duc Thuy Son, meaning "a bird bathing in the silver river". The mountain is located at the intersection of the Van River and the Day River. Recently, this mountain was ranked as a special national monument.

Non Nuoc is one of the few mountains in Vietnam known as the "mountain of poetry". It is also considered a museum of Han Nom poetry and is home to "unique" poems in our country today.

Non Nuoc Mountain is like a stone book (poems carved into the cliffs on the mountain) , preserving hundreds of poems considered masterpieces of famous writers and poets. For centuries, this place has not only been a "fairyland in the mortal world" but also a mountain of poetry with "poetry and brocade walls full of flowers" that fascinates visitors.

The mountain still preserves more than 40 poems engraved on the cliffs of famous historical figures such as: Truong Han Sieu, Le Thanh Tong, Le Hien Tong, Thieu Tri, Tu Duc, Pham Su Manh, Tan Da...

The translated Han Nom poems show that these are all good poems from many centuries ago in our country. Researchers evaluate that the "poetry mountain" Duc Thuy Son is like a museum of Han Nom poetry, a very lively and rich poetry museum of creation between heaven and earth.

The founder of the poetry museum on Non Nuoc mountain (the first person to write poetry carved on the mountain) was the cultural celebrity Truong Han Sieu, a son of Ninh Binh.

The first poem he composed, carved into the cliff, was called Duc Thuy Mountain, praising the beauty of the mountain and his ardent desire to return to his homeland because of the charm of the beautiful Duc Thuy landscape.

After that, many famous people came to Duc Thuy Son and left poems with different genres, describing the scenery, describing feelings, expressing private thoughts, contemplating the rise and fall of the country and human affairs. Most of them are quatrains (four lines), five-word poems (five words), eight-line poems (eight lines), seven-word poems (seven words).

On the top of Non Nuoc Mountain today there is a monument to Hero Luong Van Tuy, a young revolutionary soldier of Ninh Binh during the resistance war against the French. In 1929, he volunteered to carry the hammer and sickle flag to Non Nuoc Mountain to stir up the fighting spirit of the masses and commemorate the October Revolution in Russia.

At the foot of the mountain is Non Nuoc Pagoda, which now has a temple dedicated to Truong Han Sieu and an ancient pagoda hundreds of years old. In 1962, the Ministry of Culture and Information (now the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) ranked Non Nuoc Mountain as a National Monument. Recently, the Prime Minister decided to rank this place as a special national monument.

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/xa-hoi/di-tich-nui-tho-doc-nhat-vo-nhi-viet-nam-20241102084139544.htm