Noc Cang Historical Site

Noc Cang Historical Site

The Noc Mang field site belongs to Phong Thanh village, Gia Rai district, today is hamlet 4, Phong Thanh A commune, Gia Rai district, Bac Lieu province. In the past, this place was a large swampy area, with many forests of melaleuca, bamboo, and reeds growing together, all year round only birds and poisonous snakes sheltered. People who went to reclaim the land to live and explore this area built leaf-roofed huts to shelter from rain and sun and avoid poisonous snakes. Because the land is swampy, it is impossible to build houses like on dry land, people cut trees to make stakes and stick them in the muddy ground, then put crutches on top as floors to build houses. The site of Noc Cang field is also associated with the indomitable struggle of farmers against the oppression and exploitation of the French colonialists and landlords. Mr. Muoi Chuc's family put in a lot of sweat and effort to transform this field into a rice field. While everyone was living and working peacefully, the landlords colluded with the tyrants and the French colonialists to use many cunning tricks to steal rice and land from Mr. Muoi Chuc's family. (In fact, the land Mr. Muoi Chuc and his brothers worked on was left by their ancestors who explored it). In 1927, after many cunning and sinister tricks to take over the land of Mr. Nguyen Van Chuc's family (Muoi Chuc), a landowner in Ca Mau, Ma Ngan, tricked him into selling the land to the wife of a district official, Ho. Thi Tran. After buying land but not being able to get it due to Mr. Muoi Chuc's family vehemently protesting, they borrowed the power of the French colonialists to suppress it in order to take the fields and rice of Mr. Muoi Chuc's family. So his family's struggle against the oppression of the French colonialists happened bloody on February 17, 1928. In this fight back, Mr. Muoi Chuc's family lost 4 people: Mr. Muoi Chuc, Ms. Muoi Chuc (with her unborn child), Mr. Nam Man, Mr. Sau Nhin. On the colonial side, one French official was seriously injured and died the next day, and several others were injured. The remaining members of Mr. Muoi Chuc's family were all arrested and convicted of "rioting, opposing public authority, and murder". Not to be deterred by that, his family continued to file a complaint... The press also strongly condemned it. In response to public opinion, the French government finally had to return the land to Mr. Muoi Chuc's family. The Noc Cang field incident is evidence of the crimes of the French colonial regime and its lackeys of mandarins, demonstrating the anti-oppression spirit of honest and simple farmers. Although the struggle of the farmers in the Noc Mang area was a spontaneous struggle, it demonstrated the struggle of the farming class in the Mekong Delta at that time, demonstrating the resilient spirit and kindness of the people. Southern farmers, contributing to the resilient and indomitable tradition of the Vietnamese people. On August 30, 1991, the historical event of Noc Mang field was recognized by the Ministry of Culture and Information as a historical - cultural relic, this relic is located in hamlet 4, Phong Thanh A commune, Gia Rai district, province Bac Lieu. After more than eighty years, Noc Mang field still retains the tragic song of the past, that event has entered the nation's history with the image of simple, honest and full of devotion farmers in Bac Lieu. Source: History of Gia Rai District Party Committee

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