Duong Dinh Nghè Relic

Duong Dinh Nghè (also called Tam Duong Nghè) also worships the village tutelary god Nguyen Tieu Giao (Tieu Giao Dai Vuong). If the communal house is where grand sacrifices and community activities of the village take place, the nghè is where the village tutelary god resides permanently. Annually, on the 10th day of the 8th lunar month, the people of Duong Dinh village solemnly organize a procession of the deity from the Nghè to the communal house to open the traditional festival, commemorating His profound merits to the people and the country.

Duong Dinh Nghè possesses extremely lively and skillful architectural carvings in the artistic style of the late 18th to early 19th century. Decorative motifs are concentrated on the rường beams and corner brackets with images of dancing phoenixes, phoenixes holding letters in their beaks, coiling leaf dragons, bodhi leaves, water waves, meander patterns, and parallel spearhead motifs. In particular, on the dó wood panels running along the rear sanctuary are carvings of dragons facing the sun together with animals close to rural life such as bats and rats, strongly imbued with folk cultural identity.

The Nghè currently preserves a diverse collection of ancient artifacts, including an incense table, dragon throne, ancestral tablets, canopy doors, horizontal plaques, couplets, a palanquin, a procession set, a washing shrine, and especially a set of 10 royal edicts dating from the Le to the Nguyen dynasties.