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Temple of Dinh king

24
09/2019

 

About 500m from King Dinh temple is the temple to King Le Dai Hanh. This temple is located in Truong Yen Ha village, so it is also called Ha temple. Shadow light down on the surface of Hoang Long river branch. In front of the temple is Mount Den and behind is Den mountain. The temple was built in the style of "foreign domestic capital" but smaller in size than King Dinh temple. Passing Nghi pagoda (the outer door) along the main road tiled, on the left is a large rockery, 3m high with the image of a phoenix dancing, the beak turning into the temple, two wings as if flying. On the right is the Tien Bai house, in the front there is a rockery "Tiger ambush" consisting of a large stem of 9 mountain trees, over 300 years old. On the left of Tien Bai house, there is a rockery with the shape of an "kneeling elephant" carved with two Chinese characters "Real di".

 

Along the right path there is a large lake. Through Nghi subject (internal door) is also 3 spaces, according to the architecture of the architecture is two flower gardens, followed by two rows of echo houses. In the middle of the flower garden on the right, there are two "Phuong Ham" mountains, on the left is the rockery "Long Ma". In the dragon field near the nave of Bai Bai, there were stone sieves. The temple has three courts: the outer court is Bai Duong, the middle court is the Incense temple to worship Pham Cu Luong, the person with merit to King Le Dai Hanh in the middle. On the left is a statue of Le Ngon Trieu, or Le Long Dinh (the fifth son of King Le Dai Hanh). On the right is the queen Duong Van Nga.

What is special about the temple of King Le Dai Hanh is that the wood carvings in the 17th century have reached the level of craftsmanship and sophistication. The temple was built to show the people's gratitude to the king who made a great contribution to the nation's construction in the 10th century.