Tien Thuy Communal House

Tien Thuy Communal House

As one of the earliest communal houses established in Khanh Hoi Dong Hamlet, Tien Thuy commune, Chau Thanh district, Ben Tre province, Tien Thuy communal house is not only a place to worship the village deity but also a testament to cultural and artistic evidence. art and history. The architectural and artistic vestiges dating back to the early 19th century of Tien Thuy Communal House have been confirmed by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to be eligible for National Monument ranking. Tien Thuy Communal House is located on the bank of a small branch of Ham Luong River. With a structure in the shape of the word Son (Chinese word), Tien Thuy Communal House was built in a unified, continuous manner in an area of ​​over 1 hectare, including: martial arts house, martial arts hall, main hall, dressing room, kitchen and banquet house. In front there is a screen and 4 temples: Ong Ho, Ngu Hanh, Tho Than, Ba Chua Xu and the Than Nong altar. Tien Thuy communal house was established right after Nguyen Anh fled the Tay Son army, stopping here in 1778. By 1852, the Dinh was approved by King Tu Duc and granted 7 titles. However, because in the past Tien Thuy and Tien Long were in the same village, there were two communal houses called Dinh Ong and Dinh Ba, so in the past 10 years, Dinh Tien Thuy (Dinh Ba) brought 3 conferments to Tien Long Communal. Currently, the Communal House still has 4 conferments to worship the god Cao Cac Quang Do, Thien Y A Na Dien Ngoc Phi, Bon Canh Thanh Hoang and Dai Can National Nam Hai. Tien Thuy Communal House has the architecture of a Xuyen Trinh house, 3 rooms, two wings, yin and yang tiled roof. Still imbued with ancient architecture, typical of 19th century buildings, Tien Thuy Communal House was built initially with simple leaves, then with wood, tiles, ceramics, and porcelain. The communal house has 42 columns made of ironwood and spokes with a width of 90cm to 1m. Columns, trusses, and arm beams are bonded together using the tenon-pin technique and the rafter ends are all carved with patterns. The roof of the communal house is a tower with 4-sided landscape and embossed patterns on the roof, with 2 dragon heads at the 2 corners of the tower. Like many other ancient communal houses, embossed, filigree, engraved, mother-of-pearl, and gilded lacquered sculptures are keenly displayed in the horizontal panels, couplets, bao lam, and votive walls. Many types of flowers, fruits and ornamental birds with Vietnamese folk characteristics are shown here such as apricot blossoms, peonies, pomegranate flowers, lotus flowers, chrysanthemums, bamboos, butterflies, bats, mice, crabs, frogs, unicorns and turtles. -serve... The most unique and elaborate architecture of Tien Thuy Communal House is embossed with two layers of patterns in the boxes and drawers. The inner layer uses filigree like a mesh or honeycomb layer as a foundation for the outer embossed pattern layer. The communal house still retains 14 horizontal panels, 6 blue envelopes, 4 altars, 4 ordinations, 2 pillared tureens, 2 incense burners and many tureens, tablets... Up to now, Tien Thuy Communal House is still a communal house that gathers a large number of people to worship. The communal house has a stage for Boi singing on Ky Yen ceremony and Du Than ceremony on the main river - a unique feature of Tien Thuy communal house. In addition, the communal house also has annual worshiping ceremonies such as the Mountain Opening ceremony, Quan Thanh worshiping, Hung King's death anniversary, Ha Dien and Thuong Dien ceremonies. With the purpose of praying for favorable weather, peace and prosperity in the country, and favorable harvests, thousands of people attend every year. Especially during the Ky Yen festival, people far away from home often gather here to worship and exchange, strengthening the friendship between neighbors. Source: Ben Tre Tourism

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