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Bridge – The ancient village of Cu Da, in Cu Khe commune, Thanh Oai
district, Hanoi, does not only have traditional houses of hundreds of
years old, but also French- styled two-story houses of a hundred of
years old.
There are vaulted gates. Village roads are laid with slanting bricks.
On road-sides, there are old houses in ancient Viet styles, villas in
French styles and newly-built ones. Houses are numbered and it might be
the one and only village in Vietnam where houses got numbered. There are
about two hundred old houses both in Vietnam and French styles, of
these, 60 remain almost unchanged.
Houses in Cu Da are low and
deep in length, so they are always cool in summer and warm in winter.
Architecture is specified in Nguyen feudalist dynasty, nearly made of
wood. On beams, pillars, there are delicate sculptures. In the middle of
the houses, there are ancestral altars, panels and parallel scrolls.
The main village road is built along a riverside, every lane has a
gate. The village pagoda is classified as a national relic. It’s Linh
Minh Tu and a stone column is inscribed “the pagoda was renovated in
1695.”
There also remains relic of the village altar to worship
“earth and heavens” or Xa Tac, considered to be the most magnificent.
There are also houses that were built in years from 1920 – 1940 (in new
architectural styles).
On a river bank, there’s a flag-pole built
in 1929, a communal house of the village-council, a school. At one end
of the village (entry road), there’s a low earthen hill named Dong Gia,
it’s thought to be a centuries-old tomb since the old Chinese colony.
Not
only well known for a place with many ancient houses and ancestral
temples dating back to over one hundred years, the Cu Da Village is also
noted for its traditional handicraft of vermicelli making.
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