Gan Shrine
Introduction
According to legend, during the Tran dynasty (13th–15th centuries), at Lam Dam Pond appeared a Water Deity, the son of the King of the Water Realm, who came to the mortal world to find a teacher to study the Way. Once, when the heavens brought a drought and the people suffered extreme hardship, for the greater good, the Water Deity’s disciple followed his teacher’s instruction and violated the rules of the heavenly court, dipping a brush into an inkstone and sprinkling it into the sky to make rain, saving the people of an entire canton from the harsh drought. Since then, the grateful local people established Gan Shrine to worship the Water Deity. The sacred Gan Shrine is also recorded in historical books as Hien Khanh Temple; the Water Deity, whose formal name was Bao Ninh Vuong, was conferred the title of Supreme Deity by many kings.
On September 11, 1993, Gan Shrine was granted a certificate by the Ministry of Culture and Information recognizing it as a National-level Historical and Cultural Relic.
