Dinh Xa

Nestled peacefully beside the green bamboo shade of Chuc Son town, Dinh Xa emerges like an elegant, quiet low note, a towering witness that has weathered the shuttle of time's vicissitudes.. The communal house was founded in the seventeenth century by the people of the two wards Dong Xa and Doai Xa; this ancient communal house is the crystallization of the sweat, tears, and steadfast hearts of many generations. Through many vicissitudes of seas and mulberry fields, this place still proudly preserves its massive shape in the character “Dinh” with a sturdy wooden frame strongly bearing the Le - Trinh architectural style, supported by monolithic blue stone footings that carefully uphold four rows of resilient columns.

Stepping into the solemn space of the communal house, we seem
to be overwhelmed by the exquisite carvings of the late eighteenth century. Under
the talented hands of our forebears, the senseless wood grains were transformed into
the "four sacred creatures" painting—dragon, qilin, turtle, phoenix—curving elegantly and vividly
like a mythological dream. Dinh Xa today preserves an entire treasure
of priceless heritage with twelve edicts conferred by feudal dynasties upon
the communal house, a sacred genealogy book, along with an ancient altar from the seventeenth
century that has braved frost and sun, like an invisible thread connecting people's hearts today with
a thousand-year-old origin.

That solemn rear sanctuary is the place of worship of the Three Virtues
the village tutelary gods from the era when Hung Vuong founded the nation. That is the valiant general Cuong Chinh —
an outstanding son who, together with the two water deities Oai Linh Cong and Tam Te Cong, assisted
Saint Giong in defeating the Yin invaders and keeping the borders peaceful, and then returned here to teach the people of Chuc Son to transplant
rice, plough, raise silkworms, and weave cloth.

Not only is it a museum of spiritual architectural art,
Dinh Xa is also a "red address" bearing the brilliant crimson mark of modern revolutionary
history. In the early days of the nationwide resistance war—arduous yet heroic—
this ancient communal house had the honor of being the residence and workplace of the Vice President
Huynh Thuc Khang and Minister Nguyen Van To.

Every year, whenever spring returns, from the twelfth day to the fifteenth
day of the first lunar month, the communal house festival opens joyfully. The festival drums beat crisply, and
folk games bustle like a promise, inviting footsteps from all directions
to return to express gratitude for the merits of the ancestors and join hands to preserve a precious gem
in the heart of the poetic Doai region. With its historical values, on the 18th day of
January 1988, Decision No. 28, Dinh Xa was honored by the Ministry of Culture and Information
to be ranked as a National-Level Architectural and Artistic Monument.