Yên Giang Communal House is
situated on a high earthen mound in the center of Yên Giang Commune,
Yên Hưng District. It was built in the 16th
century to honour national hero Trần Hưng Ðạo. It was rebuilt in
1993. It
is built in the shape of the letter J. Its Front Ceremonial Hall has
five compartments. Its Back Ceremonial Hall has three compartments.
Its Back Sanctuary includes one compartment. The building still preserves a delicate china
incense burner from the Lê Dynasty, two stone engravings with
designs of dragons from the Nguyễn Dynasty, parallel sentence boards
and six decrees from Nguyễn Emperors conferring to Trần Hưng Ðạo the
title of tutelary genie of the village; Five King's chairs, a pair
of eight pole palanquin; a royal court was carved with dragon and
red lacquer trimmed with gold flowers and leaves which marked from
Nguyễn Dynasty. The festivities at the
communal house take place on the eighth day of the third lunar month
each year.
