Hat Mon Temple (worshiping Hai Ba Trung)

Hat Mon Temple (worshiping Hai Ba Trung)

Hat Mon Temple, also known as International Temple, Hai Ba Trung Temple, is located in Hat Mon commune, Phuc Tho district, Hanoi city. According to some recorded documents, the Hat Mon area was where Hai Ba Trung organized their soldiers' association after meeting in Phong Chau citadel. This is also the place where Hai Ba Trung died when the uprising failed. Legend has it that Hat Mon Temple was built after Hai Ba Trung reincarnated into the eternal realm. The temple faces southwest and includes the main architectural works: Tien Quan, Temporary Temple, Ritual Gate, Phuong Communal House, Oath altar, three gates, front altar, middle hall, harem, left and right moat, Hidden mound, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Dinh's memorial house, guest house, annex... Quan Tien: is a small structure, built of brick, the door opens towards the temple in a rolling dome style, has a curved roof, the floor is 45cm higher than the road surface, creating three steps to the restaurant floor. According to the village's fairy tale, this place was originally a shop selling floating cakes. When Hai Ba Trung's insurgent army gathered at the Oath altar, the lady who sold floating cakes offered a whole load of cakes for the Two Ladies to eat before going into battle to defeat the enemy. This small shop was built by the villagers to commemorate their gratitude to the floating cake vendor. Temporary Temple: located in front of the right side of the main temple, has a Dinh-shaped plan, including an altar and a harem. The three-compartment altar house has gable walls, a tiled roof, and a nail-shaped roof. The sets have a structure like "the gong stand, the lower part and the seven verandas". The three-compartment harem building is built connected to the front altar. The roof support system has the same structure as the front altar house. The front opens with a table-style door system. This architectural work is the temporary residence of the Holy Lady. During the annual flood season, the main temple area is flooded, the villagers process the statue, the throne and all the temple's worshiping objects to the Temporary Temple. At the end of the flood season, they process the Holy Palace again. The outer ritual gate: dating back to the Nguyen dynasty, is made in the style of four brick pillars, the top of the pillar embossed with four phoenixes and unicorns. The lantern part is embossed with four sacred animals (dragon, lyre, tortoise, phoenix). The pillar body has parallel sentences in Chinese characters. From the gate, following the dike slope down is the main temple area, on the right there is a lake, in the middle of the lake is a recently built water house (Phuong communal house). On the left side of the road on the dike surface is the memorial house for female general and heroine Nguyen Thi Dinh. Swearing altar: newly built in front of the three-entrance gate, the swearing stone pillar is shaped like a tower-shaped pillar, four sides are engraved with Chinese characters, placed on a foundation 65cm higher than the yard level, with five steps, facing the engraved temple. content of Hai Ba Trung's oath. Surrounding the altar is a mezzanine wall, outside of which are placed stone statues of elephants and horses. Ritual Gate: consists of three match-stacked compartments, two-storey roof. The three doors entering the temple are made of planks. The roof support beams are structured in the form of "gong racks, lower panels, seven porches", the roof is tiled, and the floor is tiled with Bat tiles. Stele houses: two stele houses were built on the outside of the left/right row of houses, on a foundation 30cm higher than the yard level, in the style of a communal house, with tiled roofs and four curved blades. Left/right desert: each row of five compartments runs along the temple yard, gabled wall style, tiled roof, roof support structures in the form of "gong rack, lower and lower", placed on the wall to add a pillar to hide. colonnade. Dai worship house: consists of five compartments, built with bricks in the style of gable walls, the roof supports are structured in the style of "upper price gong, overlapping beams, con me, seven porches", the roof rafters are divided "upper third - lower fourth", The roof is tiled, the floor is Bat tiled. Decoration on the architecture is densely concentrated on the ends, pillars, armpit beams, traps, wind panels in the form of embossed, filigree..., with themes of dragons and four sacred animals. This is an artistic product from the Le Trung Hung period to the Nguyen dynasty. The middle room is hung with horizontal panels, and the pillars are all hung with parallel sentences praising the merits of the Hai Ba. The front altar: consists of five rooms, built with bricks in the style of a gable wall, the floor is 30 cm higher than the yard level, surrounded by a bunch of bricks, the structures are "upper porch, gong rack, lower porch". The harem: consists of three rooms, built on a foundation higher than the yard level, with gable walls and a tiled roof. The roof of this building is connected to the middle building through the roof of the bridge. The wooden frame supporting the roof consists of four sets of "stacked" trusses. The decoration on this architecture is mainly phoenix. The middle space of the forbidden palace was created with a wooden box covered with wooden planks, which was the place to worship the Hai Ba. Guest house: consists of five rooms, with gable walls. The sets of rafters supporting the roof create the style of "gongs at the top, low down, seven porches" with hidden columns. Hidden Mound: behind the temple's harem. Legend has it that this is the vestige of the place where Hai Ba Trung hid the seal before withdrawing and reincarnating into eternity at the mouth of the Hat River. Currently, Gia An Mound is bordered and surrounded by brick walls. Hat Mon Temple also preserves many relics and antiques of cultural and historical value, including: 293 relics and antiques with many types and rich materials, such as wood, stone, bronze, porcelain. , paper, metal... dating from the Le, Tay Son, Nguyen dynasties to the present. Hat Mon Temple Festival is held every year on March 6 (lunar calendar), with rituals and folk performances attracting a large number of local people and visitors. In particular, the custom of making banh troi and the procession of banh troi offering to Hai Ba has become a unique cultural activity of this land. During the anti-French and anti-American era, Hat Mon Temple was chosen as a living and training place for local militia and guerrillas. Historical events and the system of relics around the Hat River area contribute to enriching the content and enhancing the value of Hai Ba Trung temple. With special values, Hat Mon Temple relic (Phuc Tho district, Hanoi city) has been decided by the Prime Minister to rank as a special national relic (in Decision No. 2383/QD-TTg dated September 9). /December 2013). Source Department of Cultural Heritage.

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