An old copper bell about 300 years old has been found on the campus of Sung Phuc pagoda in Tu Minh commune, Hai Duong city by the pagoda’s Buddhist monks and nuns.
On the bell’s body are strange patterns and designs shaped like flowers, dragons, phoenix and old scripts. The bell is initially determined to have been cast in 1780 during the Tay Son age.
Doctor Ha Van Minh, the director of Chinese and old Vietnamese scripts under Hanoi National University of Education, highly applauded the excavation of Tay Son old relics because this dynasty only existed for little more than a decade.
Earlier, also at Sung Phuc pagoda, 16 stone steles engraved with scripts, parallel sentences and titles and two rare records were unvcovered.
*On May 9, Lam Dong Museum displayed a queerly designed old stone which was presented by Nguyen Van Tam, a ornamental stone collector in Dinh Van town, Lam Ha district.
Patterns on the deep grey stone are ivory-white circles of different diameters linking with each other to create strange-looking forms.
The stone was found in a stone pit near Tan Van pagoda. It was found when workers cleaved a big stone into two parts.
Lam Dong Museum’s director Vu Nhat Nguyen said that no clear remarks have been noted by a professional archeologist. The stone is so queer that the museum has decided to showcase it to scientists, researchers and visitors and a jury will be established to judge the value of this special stone.
Source: TP
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