Tuy Loan village communal house

Tuy Loan village communal house

Tuy Loan (also known as Thuy Loan) is an ancient village in Da Nang, explored during the reign of King Le Thanh Ton, Hong Duc era (1470 - 1497). Legend has it that along with the process of exploring and establishing the village, the people also built traditional cultural and religious institutions, including the village. Tuy Loan village communal house was first built around 1470 in another place. In 1787, the communal house was restored for the first time. In 1888, the communal house unfortunately burned down and was rebuilt on land next to the Tuy Loan river. Having undergone many changes in location and style, the current Tuy Loan village communal house was built under the reign of King Thanh Thai in the year of Canh Ty (1900) on the basis of simulating the scale and style of the old communal house, built from Dong Khanh period was destroyed by storms. Since then, Tuy Loan village communal house (in Hoa Phong commune, Hoa Vang district, Da Nang city) has been regularly renovated, but the original architectural value has not changed. Tuy Loan village communal house has a spacious space, beautiful location, in front is a meandering Tuy Loan river with all year round green mudflats with fruit trees. Tuy Loan Communal House is a work of typical architectural value, including a front hall, main hall and rear palace that are continuously connected from front to back. The front street has a mixed structure, with both beam and rafter connections. The middle part of the rafters, that is, the connection between the two main columns (the first column), is the connection of the beams in the style of overlapping the beams; From the two main columns radiating to the front and back are rafters connected to the military columns, creating an upper and lower rafter structure. On the gable end, from the main column radiate punched trusses, determined to form two wings like buildings with traditional trusses. In Da Nang communal house architecture, this type of structure is absolutely not found in any other communal house. Stepping through the three-entrance gate leads to standing pillars and a screen placed in front. This is considered an internal three-door gate of the communal house. There are parallel sentences on the body of the pillar. The screen is built in the style of a scroll, the inside is shaped like a tiger, the outside is an embossed dragon and horse shape. The communal house's roof is covered with yin and yang tiles, the walls are built of bricks. The inscription on the stele placed in the communal house of Tam Giap Nguyen Khue records the establishment of the communal house with the passage: "The communal house consists of a main building and a front hall, all made of precious wood and tiled. In front of the yard are built pillars and vases. The room looks very bright. In addition, a temple was built on the left side of the road to worship the ancestors." The roof is decorated with two dragons flanking the moon, and the two ends of the roof are covered with curving dragon shapes and are made of porcelain. Entering the inner hall and the back of the temple is a place of worship, including the main altar, the left side, and the right side. Both sides also have left and right boards. The middle space has a council altar that is higher than the other altars, on the table there are a pair of cranes standing, on both sides there are two rows of holes. In the communal house, there is also an epitaph in Tuy Loan communal house dating back to Thanh Thai's first year (1889) and many horizontal panels and tablets that are more or less 100 years old. On the east wing of the communal house is the Chu Phai Toc church, which worships the ancestors. This is the temple worshiping 5 ancestors of the Dang, Lam, Nguyen, Tran, and Le clans. In particular, Tuy Loan village communal house still has 25 conferments bestowed by the Nguyen Dynasty kings. Not only does it have unique architecture, Tuy Loan communal house also makes its mark on the golden pages of history against foreign invaders. In 1945, the villagers of Tuy Loan used the village communal house and church as a headquarters to oppose the anti-imperial movement, and together with General An Phuoc, they marched to Hoa Vang district to seize the French and Japanese government. In 1946 - 1947, Tuy Loan communal house was the headquarters of the 17th and 19th battalions commanded by Mr. Dam Quang Trung. Every year, on the 9th and 10th of the first lunar month, the people of Hoa Phong commune organize the Tuy Loan village communal house festival. The festival takes place with traditional rituals and recreated folk games. reappeared within the framework of the festival program. From the afternoon of the 9th, the people of the village organized a solemn procession from the Dang sect clan church, paraded through 4 Tuy Loan villages and returned to Tuy Loan communal house for traditional ceremonies. On the morning of the 10th, the main ceremony took place in a solemn atmosphere. The ceremony includes the Ordination Ceremony, music offering incense to the Temple, releasing dragon flowers in the river to help children and grandchildren remember the five wise predecessors Dang, Lam, Nguyen, Tran, Le following the decree of King Le Thanh Ton to expand the banks. After returning to the South (in the year 1470 of Hong Duc), he stopped and chose this place to start a business and named the village Tuy Loan. Next is the Festival with many fun folk games such as stick pushing, arm wrestling, tug of war taking place right in front of the communal house yard... The profession of making rice paper has long contributed to making Tuy Loan village famous, so in the festival there is no indispensable rice paper baking contest. Villages often nominate their most skillful girls to participate in this contest. The winner of the contest not only brings glory to their village but also contributes to honoring a long-standing traditional craft of the village. . In addition, the villagers' festival also held competitions for wrapping banh tet, smashing pots, etc. After hundreds of years of existence, the village communal house is still almost intact, solemn and quiet under the shadow of ancient banyan trees and among the village's bamboo groves. The communal house's courtyard has built pillars, screens, painted parallel sentences... very majestic and respectful. When you come to Da Nang, stop by Tuy Loan, take a walk around the village, enjoy the taste of Quang noodles and rice paper, admire the village communal house and the ancient village space. If you have the opportunity to attend the village festival, you will be very impressed. interesting and unforgettable impression of an ancient village, a village communal house with rustic natural scenery, kind and warm people, rich in Vietnamese village cultural identity that is very proud and respectful. Source: Da Nang Party Committee website

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