Having the opportunity to travel to Can Tho after visiting Cai Rang floating market, walking Ninh Kieu wharf, enjoying fruits, garden cuisine … visitors remember to visit the old houses imbued with Western culture. In which, Binh Thuy ancient house is considered the most beautiful old house in Tay Do, which is over 100 years old, used as the backdrop of many famous movies.
Binh Thuy Ancient House – The most beautiful old house in Can Tho
Binh Thuy ancient house located at 142/144 Bui Huu Nghia, Binh Thuy, Can Tho is an indispensable destination for anyone, whether booking a tour of Can Tho or going on their own. The house was built in 1870 and is owned by the Duong family. This old house is one of the few intact old houses to this day, of great value in supporting research and understanding the culture, customs and habits of the people of the river delta. Cuu Long period of the intersection between two centuries.
Binh Thuy ancient house was built in 1870 and owned by the Duong family.
The owner of the house is Mr. Duong Chan Ky – a wealthy intellectual businessman, and also an artistic landowner. He is very interested in discovering new and strange things of the prevailing Western trend, especially in the field of architecture. Therefore, visitors can see the house in the architectural style of a luxurious old French villa. Most especially, the house bears a clear feng shui imprint of the East, creating a harmonious space between the East and West cultures.
Spacious courtyard
The house is built on a total area of about 6,000m2 in the east-west direction with the floor 1m higher than the garden. The house is surrounded by well-pruned bonsai, flowers bloom in all four seasons. Making the house both old-fashioned and lively, poetic and fresh.
The house is surrounded by bonsai, flowers bloom in four seasons.
The space includes: The front house (5 compartments), used as a place to receive guests on formal occasions, decorated in European style; The middle house (5 compartments), 3 inner compartments are arranged as traditional places of worship, 2 cover compartments are used for living; The back house is used as a common living place, along with the interior and exterior miniatures. It can be said that Binh Thuy ancient house is a rare old house in the West with an architectural style that is less overlapping with any other old house.
Small scene in front yard
Stepping through the solid concrete and iron gate fence in the style of a French mansion, you will see a side gate built in Asian architecture with 4 round columns, the front side has a sign “Phuoc An Hieu”.
Solid concrete and iron gate in the style of a French mansion
Side gate built in Asian architecture
As soon as standing inside the courtyard and looking up at the facade of the old house, visitors will be amazed by the delicate beauty of the decorative lines from the columns, the iron arches to the embossed motifs that are still preserved. kept quite intact.
Visitors will be amazed by the delicate beauty of the decorative lines
Different from many other houses, the facade of Binh Thuy ancient house does not have a direct staircase, but is designed on both sides, in the middle of the two stairs are ornamental plants expressing the concept of feng shui of the people. Eastern. In particular, in front of the façade are two lamps cast in French at the same time at the two stairs going up and down on both sides of the house.
The stairs are designed on both sides
Going up the stairs through the facade into the house is a series of windows, ensuring ventilation for the house. Each iron pillar to the layout of the rooms, the interior is arranged by the owner according to the law of symmetry, with yin and yang, there is a property and a very delicate money. All floor tiles are shipped directly from France.
The house has a system of doors to ensure ventilation
Separating the front house, the back house, the middle house is an extensive and interlocking system consisting of many turnings and boxes made of wood with familiar conventional projects in ancient architecture, and at the same time close to real life. life of the Vietnamese people in the South.
Although the architecture of the house and living room is decorated in European style, the most important place is the pure Vietnamese worship space. This shows that there is East-West cultural communication in a harmonious way, selectively expressing the sophisticated aesthetic tastes of the owner.
A small corner in the house
Absorbing new things but still keeping the national character, making the cultural face of the land increasingly richer and more diverse. It is the ingenious and reasonable acquisition and application that makes the work have its own style, clearly showing the transitional architecture between the 19th and 20th centuries of the rich people in the Mekong Delta. Long in general and Can Tho in particular. In addition, visitors can also ask the owner to explain more about the architecture as well as the hidden meanings placed in each layout of the house.
The house has a harmonious combination of East and West cultures
In addition, in the house, there is a “stock of antiquities” preserved for many centuries such as: a set of marble tables and chairs, with a diameter of 1.5m, a thickness of more than 6cm, originating from China’s Yunnan province. , Louis 15th century French sofa set, blue marble top, 18th century white chandeliers, 19th century pendant lights, cup of tea, wine from the Ming – Thanh dynasties, high green celadon vase 1 ,2m… These artifacts tell us about the wealth and high-class hobby of several generations of the Duong family, Binh Thuy, Can Tho.
The house also has a valuable “antiquities store”.
With its architectural and historical value, Binh Thuy ancient house has been recognized as a “national art monument”, attracting more and more visitors. The unique feature of Binh Thuy ancient house has attracted many directors and film studios to choose this place as the backdrop for the movies Alluvial Roads, Tay Do Beauty, Debt to Life. .. The most famous is the movie “Lovers” with the participation of two famous actors Luong Gia Huy and Jane March by veteran French director Jean Jacques Annaud. When leaving Can Tho to return to France, JJ Annaud confessed: “I was stunned by the magnificence of this wonderful house and wanted to let the world know about this place through cinema.
Binh Thuy ancient house has been recognized as a “national art relic”.
When visiting Binh Thuy Ancient House, you will have the opportunity to “travel through the air” about the background of the ancient past, immersed in the fantasy of the rich life of the Southern bourgeois families. Each visitor will hear the daily life of the Southern Southern family more than 100 years ago through the rustic story of the owner. Interesting stories about the ancient Southern culture are played in a nostalgic space such as: The way to eat rice in the old family, Nam Bo island why was built at the big door, the meaning of the reliefs, Cement statues in the garden…
Nostalgic space attracts tourists to visit
If you have the opportunity to travel to the West of Can Tho, do not forget to visit Binh Thuy ancient house – the most beautiful old house in Tay Do.
Time: 7:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. daily.
Visitors can sign up for the Can Tho tour of Mekong Exploration to visit the ancient house of Binh Thuy in combination with other attractive destinations of Can Tho. Can Tho tour is designed by us to be the most reasonable, time-saving and cost-effective route.
Source: Collected internet.