Gun named "Spirit of" the generations of ancestors considered this powerful weapons such as "Spirit."
Who is considered the father of casting cannon in Vietnam is Ho Nguyen Trung. He is a military technical famous Ho, a village in Dai Lai, the Thanh Hoa (now Kim Mau, Vinh Loc district, Thanh Hoa).
He was the eldest son of Ho Quy Ly, a former office furniture from Tran Dynasty (1399). When the king Ho Quy Ly, Ho Nguyen Trung ceded the top spot for me is Prince Ho Han Fang. In 1401, was named a national look thought the gun and boat manufacturing. He successfully made the cannon, a large two-storey boat (sailing to the floor below, to fight on the floor).
In 1405, while preparing to invade Ming University Vietnam, Ho Nguyen Trung foreseeable risk of failure of the Lake, he told the Ho Quy Ly "God is not afraid to hit just as people did not fear." In 1407, military invasion Minh, Ho Nguyen Trung commanders fought in the door Giao Thuy - Nam Dinh and the function from.
Tháng 6 / 1407, he was arrested at the seaport of La Ky - Ky Anh - Ha Tinh province, was disbanded to Kim Lang (Nanjing - China). Ming Ta room for his office suite market village, watch a gun foundry, but he always home, writing books, "he dreams of Contents ".... Male
From the early eighteenth century, the Nguyen cannons for exhibition before the palace to show the power of the monarch. In the morning, afternoon, the shooting script for Nguyen, civilians are prohibited from passing cannons, if the distance walked to greet my hat. For those days when the martial arts was promoted to the worship of the process of weightlifting event, twice a month to worship the gods.
The reign of King Gia Long (1802-18190) and Minh Mang (1820-1840), a brilliant period of development of techniques for casting cannons Vietnam. The king has 2468 gates for casting cannons of all kinds.