Communal House - Lieu Giai Temple

Communal House - Lieu Giai Temple

Lieu Giai Communal House - Temple Historical Relic Area is located in Lieu Giai ward, Ba Dinh district. Temple of Thanh Mau and Princess Ngoc Nuong. According to legends preserved at the temple, in Phan Son village, Bang Chau district, Nam Sach district, Hai Duong province, there is a family whose last name is Ly, whose name is Nghi, whose wife's name is Hoang, with a cultural tradition that has had members for three or four generations. be an official. Ly Nghi worked as an official of the Ministry of Rites during the reign of King Tran Nhan Tong. One hot day, she went to Bach Nhan lake to bathe. Suddenly, a white snake appeared and swam towards her and wrapped itself tightly around her. The following year, at the Dragon hour on March 21, Giap Thin, she gave birth to a baby girl, named Ngoc Nuong. The older she became, the more beautiful she became, more gentle and intelligent than others. At the age of 18, Ngoc Nuong went on a boat to watch the moon on the night of the 17th day of the 8th lunar month. When she arrived at Lieu Giai camp, she encountered a thunderstorm. At that time, a snake about 10 meters long appeared to take Ngoc Nuong back to the Water Kingdom. My parents were extremely compassionate and built a temple to worship Ngoc Nuong on the land next to Bach Nhan Lake, later called Dong Nuoc Lake. During Tran Anh Tong's reign, the Mongol invaders invaded our country. Ngoc Nuong plotted to help the king defeat the enemy in a major battle. The king then gave the villagers 100 mandarins to repair the temple and ordained the female scholar: "Eternal blood and food, Du Quoc Dong has not written, Female white tiger, Thuy Tinh Ton Linh princess, Ho second brother one death". During the dynasties of kings Vinh Khanh, Canh Hung, Chieu Thong, Minh Minh, Thieu Tri, Tu Duc, Duy Tan, and Khai Dinh, they all had the title: Thuy Tinh Princess of Superior Court. Lieu Giai Temple faces southwest. After many renovations, it now has the architectural art style of the Nguyen Dynasty. The temple is built in the shape of the letter "Cong", with Co pavilion, Cau pavilion, in the middle is the Thanh Mau temple, on the right side is the Mau Cuu Trung Thien pavilion. During the anti-French period in 1946, the colonialists suspected there were hidden revolutionary soldiers, so they fired mortars, causing destruction. The festival celebrates the transformation day of the Holy Mother Ngoc Nuong on the 17th day of the 8th lunar month, January 12th is the festival commemorating the transformation day of tutelary god Hoang Phuc Trung. Lieu Giai Temple - Communal House was decided by the Ministry of Culture and Information to recognize and rank as a national historical, artistic and architectural relic on December 27, 1990. Source: Electronic information portal of Ba Dinh district, Hanoi city.

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