Duong Lam

The old chronicles say

The Complete Annals, under the year Tan Mui, record that in summer, in the fourth month, Phung Hung, a man of Duong Lam in Giao Chau, raised troops and besieged the protectorate seat; a small note in the book places Duong Lam in Phuc Loc district. By the same entry, Phung Hung and his younger brother Phung Hai had brought the neighbouring villages under their control since around the Dali era, and later took up the plan of a man from their own village, Do Anh Han. Le Tung's general essay of 1514, printed at the front of the Complete Annals, calls him a hero of the land of Duong Lam.²³

How later ages remembered

The Cuong muc corrects his home: the Complete Annals say Giao Chau, the Cuong muc calls that a mistake and changes it to Phong Chau. Its note adds that the Phuc Loc district of the old histories has now been renamed Phuc Tho, in Son Tay province, and that by that province's registers the commune of Cam Lam was once called Duong Lam. Then one sentence: Phung Hung and Ngo Quyen were both men of that commune, and there are temples to them there now. This time now means the nineteenth century, not today.¹