Located 50 km south of Hoi An ancient town, Tam Ky city is the capital of Quang Nam province, the world famous heritage land of Vietnam. Around the origin of the name Tam Ky, a number of theories have been put forward. Photo: Monument of Vietnamese Heroic Mother in Tam Ky. According to the opinion shared by many researchers, “Tam Ky” means “three branches”. This name is named after the mountain river shape of the land, where there are three high mounds and river confluence. Photo: Thach Ban River in Tam Ky. Looking in from the sea, you will see three high mounds rising into a triangle: An Ha Mountain, Quang Phu and Tra Cai. When you call a boat in the direction of these three mountains, you will meet the estuary, the confluence of the three rivers Tam Ky, Truong Giang and Ban Thach. Photo: On Tam Ky river. Another view is that the word Tam Ky indicates the position of the land in the middle of the three periods, namely Tonkin, Trung Ky and Cochinchina – the names of three regions of Vietnam during the French colonial period. This explanation is considered unreasonable because the name Tam Ky appeared in history books long before that. Photo: Tam Ky white sand dunes. Back in history, the place “Tam Ky” appeared for the first time in the book “Phu Bien Tap Luc” by Le Quy Don written around 1776. Photo: Dinh Thach Tan in the historical site of Ky Anh tunnels in Tam Ky. According to the article “Discovering Tu Ban (Lesson 1): Ancient Village” published in Quang Nam newspaper, Tam Ky officially became an administrative place in 1767, under the reign of King Le Hien Tong. Photo: Rice fields in Tam Ky. Initially, Tam Ky was just a commune in Ha Dong district, Thang Hoa district. In 1906, King Thanh Thai issued an official decree to upgrade Ha Dong district into a government and change its name to Tam Ky. After 1954, Tam Ky district was called Tam Ky district and belonged to Quang Tin province. Photo: Tam Ky Market. After 1975, Tam Ky became a district directly under Quang Nam – Da Nang province. In 1983, Tam Ky district was split into Tam Ky town and Nui Thanh district. In 1996, Quang Nam province was re-established, Tam Ky town became the provincial capital of Quang Nam province. In 2006, Tam Ky became a city. Photo: Tam Thanh Beach, Tam Ky. Today, Tam Ky city is known to tourists near and far through famous tourist sites and historical sites such as the Monument of Vietnamese Heroic Mother, Tam Thanh mural village, Cham Chien Dan tower, and Dao Ky cave. England… Photo: Chien Dan Tower in Tam Ky. This is also a city with many attractive specialties, inviting tourists who love to discover food to enjoy, such as Tam Ky chicken rice, Quang noodles, rice cakes, ram wet cakes… Photo: Special Tam Ky chicken rice product. Invite readers to watch the video: Hue – The Shadow of Kinh Do Ancient | VTV Travel.

Coming to Tam Ky, you should once try the delicious and simple jackfruit dish that makes many people who eat once have to flutter. It is a familiar snack, proud of many generations of Tam Ky people or students who have studied here. Ms. Nguyen Thi Nhan (84 years old, owner of Ba Nam jackfruit shop) has been selling jackfruit for nearly 40 years. At that time, she saw people making this dish and selling it on the side of the road, then went home to try it and everyone praised it, and then sold it until now. Because of her advanced age, she now mainly helps her 2 daughters to sell. Jackfruit is sprinkled with a little crushed roasted peanuts, grated coconut, and fragrant fried peanut oil According to Ms. Nhan, in order to get a delicious piece of jackfruit, one must know how to choose the jackfruit that has begun to “return” (nearly ripe) rather than choosing the old, overripe fruit. After that, the ripe jackfruit tree is split in half, separates each segment, and then uses a knife to make a vertical cut to get the jackfruit seeds as the filling. Take jackfruit seeds and steamed green beans, puree, mix spices, stuff the jackfruit and hips (ie steamed) again, serve with roasted peanuts and grated coconut rice, very mouth-watering. A batch of jackfruit is not ripe for about 40 minutes. Eaten when hot, the smell of jackfruit is sweet, giving off a fragrant aroma that blends and spreads with sweet, fatty, and fleshy flavors. To taste delicious jackfruit, it takes a few hours with dozens of different stages. What makes the difference, the heart of the jackfruit dish is the secret to making the filling of the people of Tam Ky. From familiar spices every day but through the hands of seasoners, applying experience through many years of processing, plus the smell of compressed phi to make up the fragrant aroma that holds diners. A plate of six-pack jackfruit costs only 10,000 VND but has a rustic taste, reminiscent of generations of Tam Ky people and tourists who have had the opportunity to enjoy. I don’t know since when, jackfruit has become a famous snack in Tam Ky city. If you try to eat one piece, you will have to eat 2, 3, 4 more pieces. If you have the opportunity to visit Tam Ky, don’t forget to try this jackfruit dish with the flavor of your hometown and people of Quang Nam!

United in the city of Tam Ky. (Photo: Phuoc Tue / VNA) Every April, the people of Huong Tra village in particular and Hoa Huong ward, Tam Ky city (Quang Nam) are generally very happy and proud of the blooming season on the 3km long road. Tam Ky river bank gentleness. At this time, every corner of the street is full of yellow flowers with a tender, seductive fragrance that captivates people’s hearts. Whenever it’s windy, flower milk flying through the space in the village, wearing tourists’ hair and clothes. According to Ms. Dang Tuyet Lan, Deputy Head of the Department of Culture and Information, Tam Ky City, the flower festival takes place from April 3-17. It is expected that this year’s water flower festival will welcome about 8,000 visitors here to enjoy and have fun This year, due to the influence of the COVID-19 epidemic, Tam Ky city does not organize festivals but only implement some practical activities to serve people when they come to enjoy flowers, thereby contributing to promoting activities. tourism activities of the city and Huong Tra ecological village to become a tourist destination of Quang Nam. Visiting the flower season this year, in addition to being immersed in brilliant and fanciful yellow color, traveler also participate in meaningful and lively activities here. Visitors are lost in an old Huong Tra village because of the thatched houses built by the Organizing Committee on the Tam Ky river, displaying agricultural tools, typical handicraft products, artifacts reflecting the process of formation and development. of Huong Tra village from ancient times to present. Along with that, visitors will enjoy traditional traditional dishes of Huong Tra village and localities in Tam Ky city such as banh beo, banh nam, quang noodle , mixed mussels, mixed jackfruit, tea, rubbing … In addition, visitors can also find local people in Huong Tra village to make banh tet, banh chung, Quang noodles… and other popular dishes. In particular, visitors will admire the talents of the traditional Hong Lu blacksmiths; See paintings on tailors’ bags at Tam Thanh Community Art Village (Tam Thanh Commune) and weaving performances of Thach Tan sedge mat craft village. In addition, visitors experience many useful activities here: visit the orchid display area, write calligraphy, performance space for Song Choi singing, street music, watch the Men’s Boat Race- traditional women of Tam Ky city and the photo contest “A moment of the ripe flower season 2021,” “The road with conical hats,” Wishing tree … Mr. Phan Thanh Hai, a visitor from Quang Binh, said that the activities in this year’s Water Rose Festival are diverse, rich and unique, creating joy in discovering new and strange things for tourists. does not cause boredom and monotonous feeling like some festivals in other localities. According to the documents as well as the elders in the village, Huong Tra village was formed from the early years when the people established the hamlet in the reign of King Le Thanh Tong, opened the realm to the South in 1470. Legend has it that throughout. construction and development, in order to prevent natural disasters, floods, storms, landslides of river banks, threatening residential land, agricultural land, and crops, so villagers have used milk trees – a Good tree with hard characteristics, no termites, no warping … to plant on the road running along the bank of Tam Ky river. According to statistics of the People’s Committee of Hoa Huong Ward, currently, on this road there are about 180 trees of all kinds with the age of 40-500 years old. The people here consider the “specialty” of the village, so they are very conscious to protect, conserve and develop the number of trees in the village. The village has a convention to prohibit the cutting and exploitation of milk trees./.