Discovering many vestiges and ancient relics in Ho Citadel

Recently, in the process of inventorying and surveying monuments in the buffer zone of Ho Chi Minh City's World Heritage, officials of the Center have discovered many vestiges and ancient relics from the 14-17 century on Xuan mountain. Radio, about 5km south of Ho Citadel.

Many vestiges and ancient relics in Ho dynasty Citadel have been discovered

According to the Center for Conservation of World Cultural Heritage of Ho Dynasty , architectural vestiges and relics discovered are scattered in many places in the area of ​​Du Anh Pagoda, Ho Cong Cave . but are allocated The father is concentrated on a small valley with an area of ​​about 100m2, located on a height of about 30-40m, on the right of Du Anh Pagoda .

The most found artifacts are tiles with many types such as yin-yang tile, single lotus-shaped tile, dual lotus nose tile, leaf-nosed tile, tube tile, cow tile, tiling tile . many of them are decorated. cunning, glazed blue or yellow.

Recent artifacts have been found at Xuan Dai Mountain

In particular, here, it was discovered that the type of glass tile is a type of tile that is often used only for roofing royal structures or mansions of former noble mandarins, which dates back to the 14th century. -16.

In addition, the staff of the Center for the Conservation of World Cultural Heritage in the Ho Dynasty also found many boulders that were chiseled square , with a diameter of 41x41cm, along with a lot of large-sized ceramics, with quite many ceramic lines such as brown glaze, celadon, ivory white and brown glaze, are mainly pieces of jars, pots and bowls . and many crockery with a slightly flared mouth, on the body and neck with pages. decorative water wave pattern, some with decorative knob from 14-15th century.

Also here, many large , medium-sized mallet bricks 45x24x7cm, of which some were also found printed with Han-Nom characters bearing the names of production sites like the objects found in Ho's Citadel. .

Xuan Dai mountain range is 5km south of Ho Chi Minh Citadel - where many antiques have been discovered

It is known that the objects discovered above are most likely related to the works guarding the Jade Emperor, the Princess, or the room of Nghinh phong . that recorded history.

Here, before in November 2012 the Ho Chi Minh Citadel Heritage Center discovered traces of a large stone mining site . This is the second ancient stone exploitation site to build Thanh Nha Ho was discovered (after the stone exploitation site at An Ton mountain).

The discovery of architectural vestiges and relics in the buffer zone of the Ho Chi Minh City Citadel is an important discovery, which has great significance in preserving, managing and promoting Thanh heritage values. Ho houses are attached to local tourism development.