Lieu Giai Temple Relic

According to the temple's surviving hagiography, in Phan Son village, Bang Chau district, Nam Sach prefecture, Hai Duong province, there was a family surnamed Ly, taboo name Nghi, whose wife was surnamed Hoang; for three or four generations the family had a cultural tradition of holding official posts. Ly Nghi served as an official in the Ministry of Rites under King Tran Nhan Tong. One hot day, she went to Bat Nhan Lake to bathe. Suddenly waves rippled, a white snake appeared, swam over, and coiled tightly around her body.

The following year, exactly at the Hour of the Dragon on the 21st day of the third month of Giap Thin, she gave birth to a girl named Ngoc Nuong, who grew more beautiful and was gentler, wiser, and more intelligent than others. At age 18, Ngoc Nuong went boating to watch the moon on the night of the 17th day of the eighth lunar month; when she reached the area of Lieu Giai camp, a storm arose. At that moment a snake about 10 truong long appeared to take Ngoc Nuong back to the Water Kingdom. Her parents were deeply grieved and built a temple to Ngoc Nuong on a land of 'dragon coiling and tiger crouching' beside Bat Nhan Lake, later called Dong Nuoc Lake.

In the reign of Tran Anh Tong, the Mongol Yuan invaders attacked our country; Ngoc Nuong spiritually aided the king in winning a major battle against the invaders. The king then granted the villagers 100 quan of money to repair the temple and conferred a title on the female deity: "Van co huyet thuc, Du quoc dong vo viet vi, Nu bach ho trang, Thuy tinh ton linh cong chua, Ho nhi de nhat tu". In the reigns of Vinh Khanh, Canh Hung, Chieu Thong, Minh Menh, Thieu Tri, Tu Duc, Duy Tan, and Khai Dinh, there were all Sac phong: Thuy Tinh Cong Chua Thuong Dang Phuc Tham.

Lieu Giai Temple faces southwest. After many renovations, it now bears the architectural art style of the Nguyen era. The temple is built in the shape of the character "Cong", with a Co Pavilion and a Cau Pavilion; in the middle is the temple to the Holy Mother, and on the right is the Mau Cuu Trung Thien Pavilion.

During the anti-French resistance in 1946, the colonialists suspected that revolutionary soldiers were hiding there, so they fired mortars, destroying and burning it.

The festival commemorating the death anniversary of Holy Mother Ngoc Nuong Princess is on the 17th day of the eighth lunar month; the 12th day of the first lunar month is the festival commemorating the death anniversary of the village guardian Hoang Phuc Trung.

Lieu Giai Temple was recognized and ranked as a national historical and architectural art relic by the Ministry of Culture and Information on December 27, 1990.