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Trung Bản Communal House
Trung
Bản Communal House
was built on an earth hill in the Thượng Hamlet, Trung Bản Village,
Liên Hoà Commune, Yên Hưng District in the 15th century.
It is devoted to national hero Trần Hưng Ðạo, the tutelary genie of
the village.
It
is built in the shape of the letter J in an area of
1,732 m2. Its Front Ceremonial Hall has five compartments
and Back Ceremonial Hall comprises three compartments. Its Back
Sanctuary includes two compartments. Surrounding is poetic and
peaceful rice field, forest trees, villages, and bamboo.
Today, it preserves some
valuable artefacts from the Later Lê and Nguyễn dynasties, such as:
two stone steles engravings, an ornate bed, parallel sentence boards
and six royal decrees from Nguyễn Emperors. There is also a
magnificent statue of Trần Hưng Ðạo, seated on a throne ornately
carved with dragons, with his hair floating behind him and his
clothes, hat, turban and belt elaborately sculpted and engraved.
It holds ritual festivals
closely related to those of the Yên Giang Communal House, Trần Hưng
Ðạo Temple, Shrine of the Lady King or Vua Bà and Trung Cốc
Communal House on the eighth day of the third lunar month: the
anniversary of the great victory on the Bạch Ðằng River in 1288.
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