Governor's Palace of Hai Palace

Governor's Palace of Hai Palace

Doc Phu Hai House or Doc Phu Hai Palace located in Ward 1, Go Cong town, Tien Giang province is an ancient house with an architectural style combining two unique East - West cultures. Despite experiencing many ups and downs in history, the house is still intact. The house was built by Mrs. Tran Thi Sanh (a wealthy Governor's family) in 1890. Mrs. Tran Thi Sanh is the daughter of Lord Tran Van Do, the wife of Binh Tay Dai Marshal Truong Cong Dinh and the granddaughter of Tu Queen Mother Du (mother of King Tu Duc). The house was built in the shape of the letter Dinh (initially). After many renovations and constructions, the entire house today consists of three parts: the main house, two square houses - where the maids live, and the rice granary. (landlord's granary). The front lobby of the old house has a Western European style with arched arches and carved embossed patterns. In contrast to the Western-style brick lobby, inside the building are traditional wooden structures. The main house consists of three rooms and two wings covered with yin and yang tiles, including 36 columns, of which 30 wooden columns are made from precious wood. Connecting the column spaces together are sets of double-sided carved wooden covers depicting the themes of four sacred animals, four precious animals, eight treasures... very sophisticatedly. The house also has precious items such as cabinets, mother-of-pearl inlaid chairs, marble tables, and Chinese and Vietnamese porcelain from the 17th and 18th centuries. Highlights are the That Bao bed tiled with marble slabs of different colors, legs embossed with flowers and leaves, inlaid with mother-of-pearl and two sets of sofas made of white and black veined marble. Especially the paintings on glass, two sets of red velvet beaded paintings, 8 embroidered panels of apricot blossoms, spring-summer-autumn-winter. In addition to the unique features in construction architecture, Doc Phu Hai ancient house is visited by many tourists to learn about the stories surrounding the house. According to many documents, the house is associated with the life of Mrs. Tran Thi Sanh, the second wife of Binh Tay Dai Marshal Truong Dinh, a national hero. Mrs. Sanh's family is one of the richest families in Go Cong and has made contributions in the work of opening up and preserving the land of the South. In 1864, Truong Dinh committed suicide, Mrs. Sanh went to the temple to take refuge and handed over the care and management of the house to Duong Thi Huong (her stepson) and her son-in-law, Tri Truong Binh district, so it is often called Ba Huyen's house. Around 1880-1885, the Tri Truong Binh district was fed up with the school's landscape of intellectuals, so they renovated this house to be spacious and airy for old age. When my grandparents passed away, this house continued to let her daughter Huynh Thi Dieu and her husband Nguyen Van Hai work as Governor of the Porcelain Palace, so it was called the Governor's House of Hai. At the end of the last century (1895-1900), Nguyen Van Hai had a little education in France so he built a "roman" style lobby and built two square houses on both sides for workers to live together. In 1909-1917, the house was renovated, a steel fence was built on three sides and a large rice granary was built in the back. Doc Phu Hai's House was recognized as a national monument in 1994. Source: Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Tien Giang Province

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