Ben Truong Trau

Ben Truong Trau

Truong Trau Wharf is a large betel trading wharf on the banks of the ancient Con River, in Trau hamlet, Kien My village, about 200m from Tay Son Tam Kiet temple. Betel and areca nuts are a famous product of both the upper and lower Tay Son regions, especially the type of betel grown by the Upper People in the Central Highlands. Truong Trau Wharf became a place of transit and trade relations between the mountains and the plains, in addition to betel and areca nuts, there were also many other essential goods. When Mr. Ho Phi Phuc's family still resided in his wife's hometown - Phu Lac village, in addition to farming, they also participated in trade with the lowlands and uplands, thus becoming rich. His children also continued their father's career, maintaining and expanding trade and exchange. Ben Truong Trau, with its trading exchanges, had a great influence on the uprising career of the three Tay Son brothers, especially Nguyen Nhac. Nguyen Nhac often traveled back and forth to the upper Tay Son region, had close relationships with ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands, and traded with markets, wharves, and towns in the delta. This helped him expand his vision and understand the suffering of people from all walks of life, thereby easily mobilizing and uniting forces to participate in the uprising. After preparations at the upper Tay Son, the Tay Son insurgents under the command of Nguyen Nhac launched a large-scale operation to liberate the lower Tay Son, liberated the Quy Nhon government, and laid a solid foundation. for the movement's next victories. Among that achievement, Ben Truong Trau was an important focal point, where information and correspondence of the insurgent army was connected in the early days of preparing for the uprising, until it reached its peak. Legend has it that next to the old Truong Trau Wharf, Nguyen Nhac built a house to store betel and serve as an inn for betel traders. Therefore, the people of Kien My, as well as many surrounding areas, know Nguyen Nhac as Mr. Hai Trau. After the Tay Son dynasty passed away, Kien My people built on the old house's foundation a temple to worship the three Tay Son brothers, called Vinh Tho temple (also called Cay Gon temple because there is a big tree here). Later, the French colonialists used it as a food warehouse and then destroyed it. In 1963, three Southern mendicants and local people built a small thatched pagoda (on the old temple foundation). In 1967, it was newly built with bricks called Ngoc Binh Vihara. Truong Trau Wharf has now been filled in, only a sandy beach along the river, no longer crowded with boats and the hustle and bustle of preparing for a great career, but "The old tamarind tree, the old Ben Trau..." has go down in history, forever echoing a glorious time. Source: People's Committee of Tay Son District, Binh Dinh Province

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