Hai Thuong Lan Ong Le Huu Trac Relic Complex
The relic complex commemorates Hai Thuong Lan Ong Le Huu Trac – a great physician of Vietnam. The complex is located in Lieu Xa village, Lieu Xa commune, Yen My district. Le Huu Trac (1720-1791) is a great physician, outstanding poet and writer and progressive scholar with the humane ideology. After his death, people and medical circle honour him the founder of Vietnam's medicine.
Over the past two centuries, Lieu Xa village – Le Huu Trac's native land – has preserved many relics relating to the great physician.
- Dr. Le Huu Muu’s Temple is dedicated to Le Huu Trac's father. The temple has the nomination certification boards of Le Huu Trac's father, parallel sentences and stelae in the 18th century.
- Ancestor - worshipping house is dedcicated to the Le family living in Lieu Xa village.
- Van Pagoda (Also called Mrs. Sinh Pagoda) was built in the 17th century and restored in 1782 when Hai Thuong Lan Ong visited his native land. It is said that the pagoda was built by Le Huu Kieu – his elder brother. This was the foundation of the Northern Regional Party Committee in the 1942 - 1945 period and the Party's newspaper-printing place.
- Mausoleum complex of the Le family was built in the 18th century.
- Le Huu Trac Memory House was built on the former platform of his family's house in 1990.
- Lieu Xa Communal House was built in the early 20th century.
The traditional festival for commemorating the Great Physician is organized annually on January 15th (In lunar year) on his death anniversary. Since 2000, Le Huu Trac's death anniversary day has been chosen as a traditional day of people working in the traditional medicine in Vietnam.
