Description
Hoi Binh communal house is located in Hoi Thanh residential group[1], Ninh Giang ward, Ninh Hoa town, Khanh Hoa province. The name "Hoi Binh" means the place where peace converges.
Based on the earliest ordination that the communal house still keeps, the second year Thanh Thai (1890) bestowed it on Hoi Binh communal house, we can guess the construction date of the monument around the first half of the nineteenth century. Since its inception, Hoi Binh communal house has undergone two renovations in 1969 and 1993.
Currently, Hoi Binh communal house still preserves 02 ordinations of the Nguyen kings bestowed upon Dai Can National Nam Hai with four saints, which are:
- Ordained on February 20 of the reign of King Thanh Thai in the 2nd year (1890);
- Ordained on August 11 of the reign of King Duy Tan in the 3rd year (1909).
Hoi Binh communal house was built to worship the village's tutelary god, Dai Can Quoc Nam Hai, the four saints, the former sage, the latter, and the soldier's spirit.
Hoi Binh communal house is located at the beginning of the village, the front facing south, has an area of 1,281m2. From the outside to the inside, the communal house has an overall floor plan including the following architectural components: Nghi Mon, Phong Nha, Am Linh Temple, main hall, east house, west house.
The most typical architecture and the place where the main ceremonies take place are concentrated in the main hall. The main hall has a structure of 02 sets because it forms a compartment consisting of 04 female columns. Military columns and porch columns are no longer available, but replaced by a system of load-bearing walls. Because the roof structure is in the style of truss. The roof system has a structure of 02 front and rear roofs, roofed with western tiles (new tiles). The roof edge is embossed with the decoration of "Two dragons adoring the moon". The front wall is embossed with decorative unicorns and phoenixes.
Every year, Hoi Binh communal house holds a festival on March 9 and 10 (lunar calendar), which takes place in 2 days. Hoi Binh communal house festival is really a big festival of the local people, attracting a large number of people from all walks of life to attend.
On November 20, 2009, Khanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee issued Decision No. 2994/QD-UBND ranking Hoi Binh Communal House as a provincial historical and cultural relic.
[1] Usually, the communal house is usually taken from the village name to name the communal house. In Hoi Binh communal house, the reason why the communal house is called "Hoi Binh" but located in the village of "Hoi Thanh" is because before the liberation of Ninh Giang commune, there were many villages, including Hoi Binh and Hoi Thanh, which merged after 1975. the two villages above and took the name Hoi Thanh. The communal house existed before 1890, with the name Hoi Binh and still retains its name to this day.