Gia Thuy Ancestral Tomb Mound
Introduction
The Ancestral Tomb Mound today lies to the northwest, nearly 100 m from Gia Thuy communal house. It is a high earthen mound whose shape and size roughly correspond to a small hill.
The village's legendary chronicle, compiled by Nguyen Binh, Grand Scholar of the Eastern Pavilion, in the first year of the Hong Phuc era (1572), states that four skilled generals of An Duong Vuong were four siblings born from the same placenta, consisting of three brothers and one sister named Trung Thanh, Dong Luong, Thong Vinh, and Quy Nuong.
During the resistance war against the invading army of Trieu Da, the three male generals were seriously wounded. While fleeing from Co Loa through Thai Duong land to the area at the entrance of Gia Thuy village, they sacrificed themselves rather than fall into enemy hands. Their younger sister, Quy Nuong, reached Gia Thuy and found her brothers' bodies. She embraced them and placed them in the nearby Buoi Well, then threw herself into that same well and took her own life to keep her body intact.
To commemorate the selfless service of the four siblings in fighting the enemy and saving the country, the people of Gia Thuy village honored them as the village tutelary deities, built a communal house to worship them with incense throughout the year, and regarded the Buoi Well mound as the Ancestral Tomb Mound.
