Year Giang

An giang is an area of the Vietnam.

History

The province of Year Giang was officially registered in 1832 during the 13th year of the reign of Minh Mang in the grouping: Gia Dinh, Well Hoa, Dinh Tuong, Vinh Long, ha Tien, Year Giang.

The inhabitants of Year Giang arrived of North at the 17th century with this long walk of a face of villages, “vietnamisant” on its passage by its way of living the territories Khmer Cham and former in the large opening of the delta of the Mekong. An Giang has a icole civilization Riz in ground flooded or easily flooded and its economy mainly agricultural is re-elected for its watery production with pisciculture in house flolttante with the top of a park of fish fattening.

The peace returned after the three Wars of Indo-China of independence (1945 - 1954), of reunification (1955 - 1975) and of the borders (1979), time came for the economic development initiated by the rural development itself started by the tourist development which offers a rapid return and important of a minimal investment within a natural and cultural framework suitable.

The health system, from education and transport of the tourist development immediately benefits the rural development which becomes the home base of an industrial adventure of agro-alimentary production in the first time, small agricultural machines in the second time and then of objects of basic consumption to increase the well-being and the safety peasants become more prosperous.

Local production

The specialities of Year Giang are the derivative products of fish and shrimps, like famous fish marinaded with frayed green papaw (mắm thái) of Châu Đốc and the products artisanal, like silk. This local production is representative of the multi-ethnicity of the area where each group has its distinctive characteristics of food, clothing, dwelling and other ways of doing in art of living.

Situation

Located at the border Kampuchean and traversed by many channel and rivers, An Giang has forests and an imposing assembly line, like the “seven mountains” in the two districts of Tinh Bien and Sorting Your of which the Mount Sam (Chau Doc.) having cultural and historical vestiges and the Sap Mount with the archeological site of Oc Eo revealing an old trade with the Empire Romain. http://perso.wanadoo.fr/patrick.guenin/cantho/infovn/oceo04.htm.

Border region with Kampuchea, it underwent in April 1978 of the attacks of the Khmer Rouge of Pol Pot, of which a 12 days raid which gave thousands of deaths, of which massacres of Ba Chuc and Lay Phi (district of Tri Tone) commemorated by the mausoleum set up in these places and containing the bones of the victims.

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Population

In addition to the Vietnameses, the province of Year Giang is inhabited by 4 minority communities: Kinh, Hoa, Cham and Khmer krom, forming a single cultural mosaic with cultural and popular festivals, as the festival, at the national level, Holy Xu Mother with the Sam Mount, the festival Khmer E of Dotta and the Ramadan Islamic Cham. By its participation in the fight for independence and the reunification, the province of Year Giang was declared “heroin of the popular armed forces” It is also the birthplace of the President Your Duke Thang.

Tourism

An Giang has a tourist potential by its culture and its nature and for the ecotourism. For cultural tourism, it there with the privileged situation of the proximity of the Kampuchea and multi-ethnicity as well as the archaeological site of Oc Eo of the history of Funan, this Khmer kingdom proto which gave the civilization of Ankhor. For the ecotourism, it there with the immense plain of the snap rings, the fauna and the Flora of the wet grounds where the sky Marie with water.

Chau Doc. is with the intersection of the rivers Hau and Tien, a cultural mosaic of the Islamic traditions Cham, hindouists Khmer and animists Vietnameses. The local gastronomy and architecture are representative of this cultural mosaic in a single natural decoration. By boat on the Hau river or car in 75 mn approximately, the visitor with Chau Doc. where on the quay it is vis-a-vis an antique Islamic mosque Cham and can explore the Cham culture by the architecture of the traditional houses with gynécée, the zone reserved to the young women, workshops of weaving of silk. The Cham community is long-lived and preciously preserves its habits in the daily life. A characteristic is the aquiculture on floating houses gathered in village located on the river. Each house is built on a raft floating above a fish park of breeding with a suitable comfort and the dynamism of water people.

The night is animated and lit, seen water or ground with all the artisric and commercial activities. The local products are abundant and varied and it would be criminal to miss the occasions to test them. By the trunk road 91 is the Sam Mount to 6 km, a rock piton emerging from a famous site with the old pagoda Tan Year of old architecture evoking the time and the life described by Marguerite Duras in her novel “a stopping against the Pacific”. Not far is the mausoleum Thoai Ngoc Hau which testifies to the pioneering days of the builders of villages, of dams and of channels which humanized this wild ground of forests and marshes. With the Sam Mount, one finds there the sanctuary Sainte Mother Xu, beautiful and large masonry with the single architecture which annually attracts two million visitors come to contemplate it, make offerings and to reinforce their faith. The festival of the Holy Xu Mother is celebrated in the fourth month of the lunar calendar which is also the season of the festival attracting of the floods of visitors of the corner and abroad. This regional festival is also cultural and was high in 2001 at the national level. On this occasion the visitors can also go up at the top of the Sam Mount to admire the landscape of the checkerwork of the rice plantations.

Fauna and Flora

In the forests, one finds flying squirrels and flying lizards whose membrane which connects the four members allows jumps in planed flight of branches in branches. There is also the ecotourism Mangrove with its forests of Palétuvier S which constitutes the habitat of a diversity of fauna and Flore.

Potential economic development

Being an only agricultural province, the agrico-food development launches the tourist development to start to diversify the economic sectors and to create new ways in active circumstances and the privileged situation of frontier economic zone with Kampuchea. The province of Year Giang required of the Prime Minister to authorize to apply the policy of the frontier economic zones. The realization and the development of this policy would lead to the prosperity of the whole of the Mekong delta. As a border zone, the economy would be that of communication by road transport and river and of exchange of goods and services with stabilized and become again Kampuchea prosperous.

The tourist potential of development involves the investment in the infrastructure of the main roads and secondaries and the medical and school infrastructure, at the starting points of the artisanal development followed by an light industry to answer the local and regional solvent request. It was the manner of Taiwan of the Fifties which went from the small light industry for the interior market to the manufacture of a multitude of components for the famous brands of the international market.

Conclusion

In the history of the Vietnam of this long walk of a face of village, over millenia, delta of the Red River to, small the delta Mekong delta with rice with the other, eliminating by the saber and the plow, assimilating by the culture, the area of Year Giang, the " South Lointain" , with the mythology of Vietnam is what the " Far West" is with the mythology of the United States.

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External bonds

(in) http://www.angiang.gov.vn/ageng/xemtin.asp?idcha=1192&cap=2&id=1193. Official site
http://www.terragalleria.com/vietnam/vietnam.chau-doc.html album photographs

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