Tales of Hanoi Streets: Luong Van Can Street – historical landmark, children and women’s paradise
Situated some meters away from Hanoi’s iconic Hoan Kiem Lake, Luong Van Can is also considered as one of the two largest toy kingdoms in Hanoi, besides Hang Ma Street. The vivid history Luong Van Can Street in the old days. Back in the 1930s, a direct road linking Hang Quat Street and Hoan Kiem Lake was built as part of Le Quy Don Street, which stretched 300 meters from Hang Bo Street to Le Thai To Street. After the 1954 milestone (the year when Hanoi was liberated from French occupation), Le Quy Don Street was renamed Luong Van Can Street. Luong Van Can (1854 – 1927), alias On Nhu, was a strong-willed Vietnamese scholar from Nhi Khe Village, Thuong Tin District, Ha Tay Province, now within Hanoi. In 1874, he passed the Huong exam, or inter-provincial Confucian exam, and later a member of the Hanoi Municipal Council by the French colonialists. However, he refused both appointments and instead opened in his hometown a school. In March 1907, together with a number of