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Hà Chương Hội Quán Hà Chương Temple or Assemby Hall 霞漳會館, Hà Chương,…

- - - - and Mazu, from ancient, chinese believed that she will help fisherman safe from storm and avoid disaster on the sea
        
        this carved wall depict the story about Mazu and her servant going to help people
      - so at the end of their journey, they built this temple for thanksgiving Mazu and this temple also become the place to support the new chineses people who coming to VN later
        
        Entire the middle of the Main hall, is the place people enshrine Mazu statue, it`s luminated with gold and redlights and glittering candles.
  - - - they have the place to fire the Joss paper at the outside incase you want to use.
      - It is believed that your prayers will be sent to the Gods in heaven through the sky well.
        
        sincerity
        
        Giant
        
        Big size
        
        incense stick
  - - - according to my memory, it finished at 1809 , it`s mean the temple over 200 years old, most of parts created in china and they brought it to VN then reconnected together, and it own an area of 1500 square meters
  - - - They notice about sunrise and air exchange, so Chinese architectures always enclose open spaces within themselves.
      - They also use lot of vent around the structure to serve in venting the building complexes, here , you see, it`s two vent next to the Main gate, and you know, these vent represent for Sun and Moon in Chinese cultural
      - Ah, and one more importance thing you should take a look, that`s the Talisman and the imagery of chinese door god, Menshen. Menshen were often painted on either side of a doorway to guard against evil demons or ghosts.
        
        As ancient traditional manner , we should stop in front of the door for a second and take three bai before stepping inside the Front hall, and as you see, it was build by ancient chinese architecture with 3 compartments included : Front, Rear and Main Hall at the end of the Temple.
        
        Timber frames
        
        And, yup, have you ever had the questions like how they build chinese temple or palace? i`m sure it will make you suprise, it is well structured with timbers and pillar, all the heavy roofs were stand by these wood pillar load-bearing columns, and it was constructed with JOINTNARY and DOWELING, each of them connect together with Mortise and Tenon
        
        They ususally decorated the pillar with symetric sentences with the Ancient Hanzi Character
        
        Dougoong, In the traditional Chinese structures, you can find dougoong ....
        it`s capturing the weight of a larger surface area of each beam and transferring it vertically through the column.
        a structural element of interlocking wooden brackets
        used in palatial structures and important religious buildings became more ornamental than structural
        Dougoong is used in palatial structures and important religious buildings, it became more ornamental than structural.
        It depends on the greatness or the palatial magnificence, the framework will consist of more dougoong.
        
        do you see this Skywell ? almost the Chinese Temples in Saigon have to a skywell like this, This is the Place people send their prayer to the sky, in a other word, the skywell like a port to connect heaven and the human world
        
        symbols like stonesdrums and inkstones
        the drum symbol indicates that the house is belonging to wu Official
        the inkstone symbol....Wen official
        
        another information is wooden cylinders with special patterns and designs, it sticked to the beam at the front door. On the two sides of the front door , you can find...,
        when you see the stone drum infront of the temple, that`s mean that temple might being worship one ore many wu officials inside.
        from Han Dynasty , they was in Imperial China they had a nine-grade controller system, from Rank 1 - Rank 9, and just the Official from Rank 3 to upper can stick the Cylinders infront of there door , and through out Han Dynasty >> Tang Dynasty >> Song Dynastic >> Ming Dynasty >> Qing Dynastic
        they kept it to the end of China imperal.
    - - The ridges of the roofs are decorated with ceramic figurines and at the peak of the roof are Twin drawon with the Pearl in the midle
      - combine small ceramic pieces together to form and depict different figures or characters in .... religion
        They were originally made by the Chinese in Vietnam.
        for example: Characters from The legend of the journey to the West
        
        Tripitaka
        
        Pigsy
        
        Sandy
        
        The White Dragon Horse
        
        God's Army
- - - - you should take time to go around District 5 and visit the another Temples like Tue Thanh Hall , Nghia An and Hai Nam Hall