Đấm Rước Trong Phố   oil on canvas    60x155cm

Procession in an old street: In 1010, Vietnamese King Ly Cong Uan  has moved his capital from Hoalu to Thanglong (now Hanoi). He begins to build his new citadel but not success. The build has just finished, the citadel was collapsed immediately. Ly Cong Uan came to Longdo temple to pray (Long do temple was built in 866) & that night he had a dream, seeing a white horse came out from the temple, the horse put back its footmark, tomorrow morning, following the white horse footmark, the construction is successful, since the temple was named: White Horse Temple ( Bachma Temple). The picture has described a procession. People was bringing the White Horse statue from the Temple to the river to wash, according to the annual custom.

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