INFORMATION ON MASTER’S THESIS

1. Full name: Nguyen Cao Tan 2. Sex: Male 3. Date of birth: 02/02/1975 4. Place of birth: Truong Yen Commune, Hoa Lu district, Ninh Binh province 5. Admission decision number: 1355/2008/QĐ-XHNV-KH&SĐH dated: 24/10/2008. 6. Changes in academic process: None 7. Official thesis title: Building Material of Dinh and Early Le Dynasty in the centre of Hoa Lu Ancient Capital relic. 8. Major: Archaeology Code: 60 22 60 9. Supervisor: Dr. Vu Quoc Hien, Vice Director of National Museum of History. 11. Summary of the findings of the thesis: The Thesis sytemizes the types of building material being used for construction in Hoa Lu Ancient Citedal in the 10th Century consisting of brick, tile, terra cotta, stone and wood. Brick is the artifacts with the largest quantity, being used for many places of architecture from the bottom of the citedal wall, walls, the surrounding wall of building, floor or tiling of building. The most popular type is the square brick used for constructing wall which contains the old character “Special used for Great Viet’s Millitary Citedal” or without character and the floor tile decorated with lotus flowers, phoenix There are two type of roof tile including Tube-tile and flat tile. The tube tile was used for covering the roof with the beautiful and subtle decoration of lotus petal. The popular presence of material type of brick, tile together with several terra cotta, wood and stone in the architectural relics which have been found in the excavations, investigation shows that the old Hoa Lu used to have large scale architectural buildings. The research of building material in Hoa Lu discovers that technique of construction in Hoa Lu in the 10th century has a certain difference in comparision with the previous period. The Viet people, besides learnt the new building techniques from China, then turnt them into their own techniques. Therefore, the architectural styles and decorations though have similar method as its neighbouring contries such as China, Korea, Japan, but those style have a deep imprint of Vietnames culture and fine art or Viet culture. In brief, the research of building material of Hoa Lu Ancient capital in the 10th century can show that the rise of being the master of production technique of building material and development of Vietnamese architectural art. That is both a process of maintaining and developing old traditional achitecture, and acquiring the new technique quitessance and dissolve it in the old Vietnamese traditional architecture. As the result, a typical architectural style of Vietnam in the 10th century had been created. The age of Hoa Lu Ancient capital in the 10th century has been again confirmed for its independence, self control of Vietnamese people and foundation for Great Viet’s Civilization under the Li – Tran Dynasties. 12. Practical applicability, if any: Restoring the Hoa Lu Ancient Citadel in the 10th century in the future. 13. Further research directions, if any: Phisical Premise of develoment of Hoa Lu Citadel. 14. Thesis-related publications: Nguyễn Cao Tấn (2011), Buhhdism under Dinh and Early Dynastie in Ninh Binh, Buddhism under Dinh and Early Le Dynasties in the construction and protection of the country, page 250. Ryan Rabett, Christopher Stimpson, Nguyễn Văn Son, Nguyễn Cao Tấn, Đỗ Văn Cường, Ngô Thi Huy, Nguyễn Văn Thái and Đỗ Thị Tuyển (2009), Archaelogical survey in the Tràng An eco-resort, Ninh Bình, north Vietnam: A brief report. Archaelogical heritage of Maylayxia journal, Vol. 2/April 2009, Chapter 8, pp. 117-127. Nguyễn Văn Lữ, Hoàng Thanh Quý, Nguyễn Cao Tấn (2001), two strange artifacts by Hoang Long river (Ninh Bình). NPHMVKCH năm 2001, Nxb KHXH, tr 726. Nguyễn Cao Tấn, Hoàng Thanh Quý (2010), Finding of evidence of Tran Dynasty ‘s Architecture in Hanh Cung pagoda (Ninh Bình). NPHMVKCH, Nxb KHXH, tr 320-321.