Located right near the center of Hanoi, Dong Ngac is one of Hanoi’s oldest villages. The complex of architectural works dating back hundreds of years is still present to this day. Some of them are increasingly degraded and in danger of disappearing
Dong Ngac village is now Dong Ngac ward in Bac Tu Liem district, City. Hanoi. This place is known for its tradition of studiousness, meritocracy and a number of traditional crafts such as specializing in the production of spring rolls (“spring rolls, spring rolls”), making light burdens, making clay pots…
The area of the ancient village is about 120 hectares, including 5 hamlets with more than a hundred roofs with over a hundred years old. Many houses have nostalgic architecture, elaborately and skillfully built.
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A house with an architectural style that blends a little European direction with an old appearance over time has a nostalgic beauty. Going into details, the interior of many items has been worn out, the walls are falling, the ceiling is peeling, the wooden doors are gradually broken…
On the roof of the house, the year of completion is written in 1927.
Mixed with the ancient culture, the architecture of the construction works in Dong Ngac village also has a distinct European direction. Modern beauty and a bit of classic intertwine has created an architectural style that always makes people nostalgic for a bygone era.
The church of the Phan chi Co family is located in a campus of hundreds of square meters dating back 420 years, people said that this church was built before the village communal house.
House No. 12, alley 35 was built in 1926, a 2-storey house with 6 rooms, of which the first floor is tiled with marble, the second floor is tiled with wooden floors.
The layout of the interior space is much different from today’s construction style, the old house still gives a feeling of the owner’s wealth.
The roof of the house is currently quite badly damaged, the second floor wooden floor and wooden stairs are very rickety, increasingly degraded.
In the past, Dong Ngac village had a proverb “Dat Ke Gian, Quan Ke Ve” to express its pride in having many successful people in the academic field. Among the clans here, every family has someone who passed the university, at least one person. Many surnames like Pham have 16 people. The royal family has been bordered by Hoang Te My since settling in Dong Ngac, and has had 3 successive generations of PhDs and 1 Vice…
Pictured is Dong Ngac B Primary School, a typical architectural work of mixed European – Asian style, still quite original.
Small houses, painted yellow. The roof of this school still has the image of a flying dragon, a lotus calyx…
Ke Ve village (another way of calling Dong Ngac village) today is really a “village” in a rare street. The modern and the old are intertwined, many houses are built in the style of large and beautiful villas but still retain the short and low old house next to it.
An almost abandoned old house in Dong Ngac village.
The people here still keep a rustic lifestyle, you can visit any house and ask people to meticulously introduce each antique item in the house.
Dong Ngac ancient communal house is a tourist attraction in Bac Tu Liem District (Hanoi city in the Red River Delta region). It is about 12 km from the center of Hanoi City.
Dong Ngac Ancient Communal
House is one of the oldest villages in Hanoi. The village is also known as the doctor’s village because of the high number of passers-by. The communal house of Dong Ngac village has existed for more than 500 years and still retains a rare and unique set of color paintings of the Le Dynasty. Dong Ngac village’s communal house worships three blessed gods: God Doc Cuoc (also a god worshiped at Doc Cuoc temple, Sam Son, Thanh Hoa). Le Khoi, his nephew called Le Thai To his uncle, was instrumental in supporting King Le in the war against the Ming army (1418 – 1427) and the god of “protecting the chapter of the unification of the earth, the display of the gods”. The village communal house was built based on the dragon posture, the outer gate of Tam Quan is the dragon’s head, the two round wells are the dragon’s eyes, and the subsequent roofs are the dragon’s body. In terms of feng shui, the left side has a lake, the right side has a rockery.
Source: Collected internet.