Thuan Quang Communal House, Gia Lam Commune

Thuan Quang village communal house is named after the locality; it is also called Thien Phuc Communal House, where the imperial concubine and spirit mother, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Thang, title Quy Duc, is worshipped—a woman with great merit in donating money and property to build the communal house.

According to the genealogy of deities still kept at the communal house, it is recorded: Mrs. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Thang, title Quy Duc, from Ha Lo Commune, Tu Ky District, Ha Hong Prefecture, Hai Duong Circuit, was an imperial concubine under King Le Than Tong. She was a woman who was filial to her parents, loyal to the king, talented and noble yet diligent and thrifty. She stood at the head of the ranks of concubines, was respected by subordinates and loved by the people, and was praised by the king. On her trip to admire the scenery in Tho Loi (Thuan Quang) village, she saw that the people valued propriety and righteousness, respected virtuous people, and that the land was beautiful with unusually prosperous energy. She spent money to help the people, praised good people, created fields and entrusted them to the giap, created jobs for many people, and asked to be worshipped posthumously at Thuan Quang.

In the twelfth lunar month of the year Binh Ty (1636), she spent money to buy stone blocks to build a tower.

In the second lunar month of the year Dinh Suu (1637), she again spent five taels of gold to buy precious wood, stone, and bricks, and hired skilled craftsmen to build Thien Phuc Communal House and Thuan Quang shrine.

The former communal house was built in the shape of the character dinh, consisting of seven bays of the great hall and three bays of the rear sanctuary, facing southwest.

Based on written materials still kept at the communal house, it has been shown that Thuan Quang Communal House underwent major restorations in the years:

The 11th year of Gia Long, Ren Shen (1812), and 1934.

In 1965, the communal house was requisitioned as a grain store by the cooperative; the seven bays of the great hall collapsed, leaving only three bays of the rear sanctuary.

In 1988, the people met and discussed restoring the great hall on the old foundation in the style of a community hall, with a brick yard in front, a club house on the left, a martyrs' stele house on the right, and a large water pond at the outermost. The three bays of the rear sanctuary remained unchanged.

Over time, Thuan Quang village communal house has preserved artifacts, including some typical ones such as: an altar throne; a stone stele inscribed with Chinese characters on both sides placed on a turtle's back with the date 1642; a small stone stele recording the contributions of the giap to the construction of the communal house.

Imperial concubine and spirit mother Nguyen Thi Ngoc Thang regarded the people of Thuan Quang as her own children and created conditions for them to escape poverty. With affection and respect for the woman who contributed to building the village, the people of Thuan Quang village have been and are contributing their efforts by repairing and restoring the communal house, the place of her worship, to make it increasingly spacious and beautiful so that generations of descendants remember their roots, express the moral principle of 'when drinking water, remember the source', and show gratitude to their ancestors—a fine tradition of our nation.