Tien Huan Temple (Kieu Long Temple), Son Tay Ward, Hanoi City

According to the jade genealogy handed down from ancient times, the people of Tien Huan village worship the village tutelary deity, who is a Princess – the third daughter of King Hung Due Vuong of the 18th generation. The Princess was renowned for her peerless beauty, intelligence, virtue, and talent surpassing others.

On one leisure trip, the Princess and her retinue came to the land that is now Tien Huan, saw that the scenery here was picturesque, with terrain like a coiled dragon and a lake serving as a court, and ordered a camp to be set up for rest. The next day, the 8th day of the 3rd lunar month, according to her father the King’s decree, the Princess boarded a boat to return to the palace. When the boat reached midstream, the sky suddenly broke into rainstorms and violent thunder and lightning. When the sky cleared and the clouds parted, the Princess and the boat party had disappeared in the middle of the river. The people call it the Day of Sanctification.

King Hung grieved and sent an envoy to perform rites, established a temple for worship, and conferred on the Princess the title “First-Rank Tutelary Deity, Hong Tuynh Ngoc Nuong Princess”.

In the reign of King Le Thanh Tong, when the court army marched to fight the Champa enemy, it stopped to rest at the temple and prayed for the deity’s support. That night, the deity appeared in a dream and helped the soldiers defeat the enemy victoriously. After returning in triumph, the King, remembering her merits, issued the title “The Virtuous Queen Mother Who Saves the World and Brings Peace to the People, Preserving the Nation Forever”, granted money and property to repair the temple, brought the honorific title back to worship her as the tutelary deity, and named the temple Long Kieu.

Currently, Kieu Long Temple (Tien Huan Temple) is located in Tien Huan residential group, Son Tay Ward, Hanoi City; the relic has been ranked at the City level.