General La Phu Communal House

General La Phu Communal House

Tong La Phu communal house is the communal house of four people: La Uyen, Phuc Trai, Tho Ngai, Mai Hong (Tan Minh commune) and Mai Sao (Nguyen Trai commune), La Phu canton, Thuong Phuc district in the past (now belongs to Tan Minh commune, Thuong Tin district, Hanoi), built nearly five centuries ago. The communal house is still called by its general name, La Phu communal house. The communal house is located on a piece of land near La Uyen village, in front of the communal house is the Nhue Giang river, an important waterway of the country, connecting the capital Thang Long to the former Son Nam Thuong region. This is also one of the few oldest general communal houses not only in Hanoi, but in the entire Northern Delta region. According to the jade genealogy book and folk historical documents, the three deities in La communal house are the great king Minh Lang, the great king An Lang and the great king Xa Than. The three great kings are heroes who have contributed to the people and the country, and are honored by the people. The Great King Minh Lang is General Nguyen Phuc, a former god of the post-Le Dynasty. He was originally from Doan Tung commune, Truong Tan district of Dong (now Hai Duong), passed the Doctor of Hoang Giap faculty of Quy Dau, in the 11th year of Thai Hoa (1453) under the reign of Le Nhan Tong. During his life as a mandarin, he held the position of Academician, concurrently the position of Deputy Thai, and teacher of Le Thanh Tong when he was young. When King Le Thanh Tong went to fight the Champa invaders, he sent Nguyen Phuc to command the transportation of military provisions. During the sea transport, there was a storm and the military supplies arrived one day late, so they were punished by death according to military law. Because he had military provisions, the king defeated the Champa army. When he returned to discuss the reward, King Le Thanh Tong vindicated Nguyen Phuc and bestowed upon him the title Minh Lang Dai Vuong, protector of the country and people, protector of the country, and at the same time, decreed 72 places of worship. Originally, the temple had a Dai Bai house, an artistic architectural work built during the Mac Dynasty, with a rectangular floor plan of 24m30m long, 9m30 wide, 1m30 wide porch, four wide, low spreading communal roofs. The boats' four-sided roofs run in the shape of the boat's sides, intersecting to create curved corners that glide up into the sky. Wooden knife carved with flower petals. The edge of the roof, the edge of the communal house's roof are covered with nails. The roof leaves of the communal house are layered with funny-nosed tiles. During the Nguyen Dynasty, King Bao Dai 11 (1936) built a 3-room harem with a house in the back located parallel to the Dai Bai. In 1948, the French invaders burned down the harem, and when peace unified the country, the people contributed to rebuilding it. In particular, about the sculptural art of the Le - Mac dynasties on the architecture of two sets of nave, the back of which borders the harem, a set of pillars with an artistic sculpture cast engraved with a dragon creating an oval shape. The dragon is shaped like a saddle, with its head in the middle of its body, revealing bulging eyes, a round nose, a flared mouth, and bat ears. From the dragon's head, thin rays of spears emanate from both sides. This is a quite vivid piece of wood sculpture art of the Mac Dynasty. On the second porch, behind the harem, the Mac dynasty dragon is engraved on the dome, on the head of the rampart and on the porch. The dragon here has a saddle-shaped body with big ears, bulging eyes, and a quill tail. The dragon's face in the middle is placed on the back of the saddle, with a wide mouth, flat nose and raised forehead. What remains at La Phu communal house, although not much, has contributed to providing material for art research. During the Mac Dynasty, it was one of the five communal houses bearing the mark of the oldest communal house. Behind is the harem, a 3-compartment house located behind and running parallel to the Dai Bai, built with gabled walls, two flowing roofs, tiled roofs with nail-shaped roofs, rectangular pinnacles, wooden architecture. The rafters are made in the form of hitching a bridge truss and have a domed ceiling system of a crab roof. Currently, La communal house still preserves many rare artifacts such as genealogies, 38 ordinations, the earliest ordination of King Le Vinh Thinh (1705); a palanquin with a tribute bowl carved with a dragon's head, a pearl in its mouth, a big round nose, and a mane of netted hair flying back in the Le Dynasty's art style; 5 wooden boards carved with dragon and horse saddles of the Mac Dynasty; 2 sculptural stone turtles of the Le Dynasty; 3 sets of parallel sentences; 3 thrones carved with different dragon heads from the Nguyen Dynasty... Every year, La communal house opens two festivals, spring and autumn two times. The main festival is on the 12th day of the 8th lunar month. The annual festival still takes place normally, but the main festival is only held once every 2 years and on three days, the 11th, 12th, and 13th of the 8th lunar month. With historical, cultural, architectural and artistic values, La communal house was recognized by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism as a National Monument in 2003. Source Electronic information portal of Thuong Tin district, Hanoi city.

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