Lord Nguyen Phuc Chu (1675 - 1725) was the 6th lord of the nine Nguyen lords. He was the eldest son of Lord Nghia Nguyen Phuc Tran.
The decoration of architecture, interior and exterior of family chapels in Hoi An Ancient Town has many themes of nature and daily life with patterns and motifs such as flowers and leaves, birds, dragons, carp, four symbols (Azure Dragon, Vermilion Bird, White Tiger, Black Tortoise).
The types of cuisine originating from mountainous areas, midlands, river deltas, through the process of living with the sea, people in Hoi An have formed knowledge and traditions of cuisine associated with the sea and islands.
In the 16th and 17th centuries, under the Lords Nguyen, Hoi An became a thriving international trading port. There were many merchants of Japan, China, Portugal, Britain, France... In which, the presence of Japanese merchants plays an important role in trading activities of Japanese in Hoi An.
Hoi An is known as the most prosperous trading port under the Nguyen Lords in Cochinchina in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Although the exact time of the beginning and the end of the construction process, until nowadays, still remain hidden, at present, Cau Pagoda has become an architectural symbol of Hoi An cultural heritage and an evidence of a period of prosperous development of Hoi An commercial port town as well as such as the relationship and cultural exchange between Vietnam, Japan, China and Western countries in Hoi An many centuries ago... Cau Pagoda is also known as the Japanese Covered Bridge, the name at the monument is Lai Vien Kieu (Lai Vien Bridge, it means the bridge of friends from afar).