Văn Giang district

District in Hưng Yên province, Vietnam District in Red River Delta, Vietnam Văn Giang is a rural district of Hưng Yên province in the Red River Delta region of Vietnam. History Middle Ages According to the surveys of researcher Philippe Papin, at the beginning of Christ era, the Southeastern area of modern Hanoi was still under the sea level, so it was very difficult to settle down. Since the middle of the belonging to the North, according to the records of the officials from the mainland China, the area of modern Hưng Yên province was almost swampy. Therefore, in the middle of the 10th century, a military leader named Lữ Đường relied on this muddy terrain to rule as a feud. The area was slenderly called as Tế Giang (細江, "the tiny stream") by the folks. It was only a small flow, which connected the Hồng River with Thương and Cầu River. According to An Nam chí lược and Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư, it was in the area of an administrative unit called as Cổ Lãm châu (古揽州, "K'lam canton"). Specifically, cổ lãm or k'lam means "the forest" in Annamese language. In 995, the Early Lê Dynasty changed it to Cổ Pháp châu (古法州, "Cổ Ph