Confering Diplomas could appear in fifteenth century, Le dynasty, confirmed by King’s seal, bearing state’s confirmation and showing court power to villages. Together with the other historical records, such as : royal proclamations, royal decrees, inscriptions, family annals…confering diploma is considered as one type of legal offical documents of feudal states.
“Van Co Cuong Thuong” (eternalness constant obligations of morality) hengfei in “Hoa Thuong Hoi Quan” (Chinese traders club-house) (now, Thanh Hoa Publishing House, No 248, Tran Phu street, Ba Dinh district, Thanh Hoa city) is one of the biggest and the most intact hengfei being kept in the Thanh Hoa museum.
Thanh Hoa museum is keeping and promoting the value of Meo pagoda’s bell, Le dynasty. This bronze bell is originally from Meo pagoda (so called Chu pagoda), Chieng Ban village, Quang Hien commune, Lang Chanh district, Thanh Hoa province. Meo pagoda has real name as “Dinh Mieu Tu”
Dong Khoi site locates in Dong Cuong commune, Thanh Hoa city. This is a stone tools-making workshop, dated Early Bronze Age. It was discovered in 1960s, twentieth century. To now, it has been surveyed three times (1960, 1975, 1976) and excavated two times.
In July 2014, Thanh Hoa museum did collect more than 30 unique, valuable and rare artifacts in which three ceramics (including two lamp-stands and one incense burner) date back to Le So period, fifteenth-sixteenth centuries.
In 2001, running the project “Collecting, conserving, correcting and editing the form and content of the exhibition in Thanh Hoa museum, 2010-2020 phase”, the museum did collect a lot of unique, valuable and rare artifacts, adding up to the exhibition and store, with different materials and types, such as, bronze drums, basket-shaped bronze containers, production tools, stone ornaments… This paper is about the big peach-shaped ink stone being kept in stone sub-store.
Thanh Hóa is an ancient land; it has a storage of precious legacy, which is bronze drums of all types. One of the most typical features of these drums was expressed through the forming and motif creating art.
Thanh Hoa is a province of “sacred land”. Therefore, many heroic persons appeared over there. In its history, this province was called the land “three Kings, two Lords”. There were famous heroes in national history as: Le Hoan, Le Loi, Kings and Lords of Nguyen dynasty, Trinh Lords of Le dynasty…
Cam Thuy bronze ting being kept in Thanh Hoa museum is one of 37 artifacts which are recognized as National Treasure in 2013 signed by Vietnam Prime Minister.
Running the cooperation on organizing the exhibition for the 50th anniversary of the first victory of Vietnam People’s Navy and the Northern Armed Forces (2-5/8/1964 - 2-5/8/2014) which will open in the 7th July 2014, the Thanh Hoa museum did collect and borrow more than 100 objects from the Thanh Hoa naval veterans.
Represented Objects