The image is a photograph of a sign on a wall that reads "LY DYNASTY" in Vietnamese. The sign is written in black text on a white background and is framed in a black border. The text is in Vietnamese and translates to "Beginning the independent era, Vietnamese people continued to struggle against the tendency of partition of the country to protect the unification and against the Song aggression (981) to maintain the independence during the dynasties of Ngo (939-968). When the Ly dynasty was founded (1009), the development of our country was pushed up: the mandarin hierarchy, promulgating the penal code, organizing regular army, building dikes, encouraging agriculture, handcrafts, home and foreign trade, founding the Royal College, holding the foreign trade for choosing talents, flourishing culture and art, simultaneously expelling the Song invasion (1077). At the end of Ly dynasty, the Dai Viet civilization was taken shape on the base of a powerful nation."