Description
My Thanh communal house is located in the middle of My Thanh village, in Cam Thinh Dong commune, Cam Ranh city, Khanh Hoa province.
My Thanh Communal House was built when no one remembers clearly, but based on the ordination still preserved in the communal house, it is possible that at least the communal house was born around the beginning of the 19th century. At first, the communal house was named An My and was made of bamboo and leaf paintings, belonging to An My village, Vinh Xuong district. After that, the village was renamed Hiep My village and in the early twentieth century, the communal house belonged to Hiep My village, Ninh Thuan religion, but local people called it Vo Ta communal house. Around the early 40s of the twentieth century, the villagers moved the communal house to Cay Trom mound and a few years later, the communal house was moved to My Thanh village, which has existed since then.
In 1971, the communal house was rebuilt by local people with solid bricks and tiles and then built more Tien Hien Temple. In 1993, the Great Hall was restored. In 2001, the villagers built Than Nong and Bach Ho shrines.
My Thanh communal house worships Thanh Hoang, Thien Y A Na Thanh Mau, Tien Hien, Hau Hien, Than Nong, Son Lam...
My Thanh communal house is facing southwest, located in a large and shady campus, with an area of 3,525.7m2. The relic has the following architectures: Nghi Mon, Son Lam Temple (White Tiger) and Than Nong Temple, Phong Phong Temple, Great Communal House, Tien Hien Temple, Kitchen and Warehouse.
The Tien Hien Temple has a pair of sentences for the first two words that are assembled from the name of the communal house:
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America is a magnificent place with thousands of ancient people who have a good taste,
Thanh Thien mineral plays a high-ranking natural light.
Translate:
The land is beautiful and magnificent, forever contributing to the village,
The sky is clear and spacious, thousands of years of radiant high mountains.
The communal house also preserves seven ordinations and couplets, incense burners, gongs, drums, etc., in which, there is a notebook written in Han Nom about the sacrifices of My Thanh communal house. Ordinances issued by the Nguyen kings, allowing people to continue worshiping the gods at communal houses and temples include:
- Tu Duc in the 5th year (1852) conferred the title Emperor;
- Tu Duc in the 33rd year (1880) conferred the title Emperor;
- Dong Khanh in the second year (1887) conferred the title of Citadel;
- Duy Tan in the 3rd year (1909) conferred the title of Citadel;
- Duy Tan 5th year (1911) conferred Thien Y A Na;
- Khai Dinh 9th year (1924) including two ordinations for Bon Canh Thanh Hoang and Thien Y An Na.
Every year, My Thanh communal house organizes Spring offerings on two days of the 9th and 10th of the third lunar month. Traditionally, every two years the communal house opens a festival, lasting for four days on the 10th, 11th and 12th of the third lunar month and organizes boi singing. The ceremony taking place during the festival includes a ceremony to honor the soul at 4 places to the communal house: Vo Ta communal house (the old communal house), Ba temple (near Da, bordering Ninh Thuan province), cemetery plot 2, Doc Turtle cemetery.
My Thanh is a village bordering Ninh Thuan province and historically belonged to Ninh Thuan religion (first half of the twentieth century). Therefore, the communal house is the evidence showing the ups and downs of My Thanh in particular and Cam Thinh Dong commune in general in history. The communal house is an architectural work in the shape of a traditional communal house of Khanh Hoa, although simple, the communal house shows the rustic and sincere nature of the people here, not fussy, ostentatious but idyllic and close. .
In 2013, Khanh Hoa Provincial People's Committee ranked My Thanh Communal House as a provincial historical and cultural relic.