Qualla: Diễn Châu https://qualla.com/dien-chau-district en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:18 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/7/h/dien-chau-district-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Diễn Châu https://qualla.com/dien-chau-district Diễn Châu: Introduction https://qualla.com/dien-chau-district/ Photo credit Linhcandng (thảo luận), CC BY-SA 3.0. In 676 a Chinese poet drowned in the sea off this coast. He was twenty-six, on his way back from Jiaozhi — the Tang empire's southernmost province, which is to say northern Vietnam — where he had gone to see his father. His name was Wang Bo, and he had already written what is probably the most famous piece of parallel prose in the Chinese language. The people here built him a grave and a temple, carved statues of the poet and of his father Wang Fuzhi, and turned the spot into somewhere scholars from Nghệ An and Hà Tĩnh went to pray. A drowned foreigner became a local patron of letters.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/7/h/dien-chau-district-wp/w77h-di-n-ch-u-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Diễn Châu: The Poet in the Water https://qualla.com/dien-chau-district/ Photo credit Linhcandng (thảo luận), CC BY-SA 3.0. Wang Bo was born in 650 and dead by 676, grouped ever since with Luo Binwang, Lu Zhaolin and Yang Jiong as the Four Paragons of the Early Tang. His reputation rests largely on the "Preface to the Pavilion of Prince Teng," still set in Chinese school curricula thirteen centuries l...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/7/h/dien-chau-district-wp/w77h-di-n-ch-u-the-poet-in-the-water.mp3 0:06 2 full Diễn Châu: Goose Feathers on the Road South https://qualla.com/dien-chau-district/ Photo credit Linhcandng (thảo luận), CC BY-SA 3.0. Thirty kilometres north of Vinh, hard against National Route 1, Đền Cuông stands on the flank of Mộ Dạ mountain. It honours An Dương Vương, founding and only king of Âu Lạc, and it marks the end of his story rather than the beginning: beaten by Triệu Đà's forces, the king fled so...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/7/h/dien-chau-district-wp/w77h-di-n-ch-u-goose-feathers-on-the-road-south.mp3 0:06 3 full Diễn Châu: The Land of Learning https://qualla.com/dien-chau-district/ Photo credit Linhcandng (thảo luận), CC BY-SA 3.0. Nghệ An people call Diễn Châu đất học — the land of learning — and the nickname has a ledger behind it. Through a thousand years of Vietnamese monarchy this narrow coastal strip turned out imperial-examination graduates, mandarins, scholars, poets and writers well out of proporti...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/7/h/dien-chau-district-wp/w77h-di-n-ch-u-the-land-of-learning.mp3 0:06 4 full Diễn Châu: A Trade to Every Village https://qualla.com/dien-chau-district/ Photo credit Linhcandng (thảo luận), CC BY-SA 3.0. The district's other inheritance is the làng nghề — the trade village, a settlement that does one thing and guards how it does it. Bronze casting in one place, iron forging in the next; then lime burning, silkworm raising, weaving, sedge matting, molasses, rice noodles. Each vill...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/7/7/h/dien-chau-district-wp/w77h-di-n-ch-u-a-trade-to-every-village.mp3 0:06 5 full Diễn Châu: Bay, Paddy, Parish https://qualla.com/dien-chau-district/ Photo credit Linhcandng (thảo luận), CC BY-SA 3.0. Diễn Châu looks east onto its own bay, a shallow scoop out of the Gulf of Tonkin, with Yên Thành inland to the west, Nghi Lộc to the south and Quỳnh Lưu to the north. At the 2018 count some 284,300 people lived across roughly 332 square kilometres — crowded, for farmland. About 3...

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