 Throughout Vietnam history, "Hòn Non Bộ" have been built for emperors, generals, and other important people as monuments, decorations, personal vistas, and as cultural icons.Miniature landscape art was first recorded after Vietnamese independence in the year 939.A version of this was the "Hòn Non Bộ" (lit., "island-mountain-panorama"), which is designed to be seen from all sides.