Me Tri Thuong Communal House

Me Tri Thuong Communal House currently belongs to Tu Liem Ward, Hanoi City, located in the southwest of the capital, about 15 km from the city center. Me Tri Thuong was formerly called by the Sino-Vietnamese name Anh Son; legend has it that in front of the village there was an earthen hill that looked like a turtle rising from the pond, so in the Ly dynasty it was named Anh Son (Anh Mountain), also called Quy Son (Turtle Mountain); here there was a well of fragrant Tam rice that was selected as tribute rice for the king, so it was named Me Tri (rice pond). During the resistance war against the French, the communal house was one of the communication bases of the Capital Military Region, the Ministry of National Defense and the Party Central Committee, a place where local cadres and guerrillas hid and operated; in 1954 it was a place to gather forces to attack French troops and prevent them from sweeping into the village.

Me Tri Thuong Communal House worships the village tutelary gods: Cao Son and Qui Anh - children of Lac Long Quan and Au Co, along with secondary deities Quoc Vuong Thien Tu and Diem La Thien Tu (i.e., Ly Phat Tu) - historical figures of the early Ly era in the 6th century who contributed to the uprising against the invading Liang army.