Spring Festival and 100th Anniversary of An Hoa Communal House

The celebrant performs the announcement ceremony.

In the 132-year history of Da Lat's formation and development, An Hoa communal house has existed in the heart of the city for 100 years. Located right in the center of Da Lat city, An Hoa communal house was built in 1925, marking the time when Vietnamese people started to come here to live and work as construction workers for the French on roads, bridges, and villas.

They lived in dormitories and on construction sites. With the support of a national capitalist contractor, the poor people established Dinh An Hoa, with its back leaning against the slope of 3/2 Street and its door facing down the pine forest hillside on Phan Dinh Phung Street.

An Hoa Communal House - The oldest communal house in Dalat turns 100 years old, located in the midst of the city's development.

Over a century, through many ups and downs of time, generation after generation, people have assigned people to take care of the incense offering, this place has become a spiritual support, connecting the community; a place to educate the next generations to be grateful to the ancestors who reclaimed wasteland, established villages, and opened up streets.

The communal house has traditional architecture.

Every year, the people of the neighborhood regularly organize the Spring and Autumn Festivals, becoming a beautiful feature of the community culture.

Offerings are solemnly displayed.

In the beautiful spring weather, offerings and fruits are carefully prepared and solemnly displayed. The ceremony takes place solemnly according to traditional rituals including: announcement ceremony, main ceremony, and thanksgiving ceremony.

The ceremony took place solemnly and respectfully according to traditional rituals.

In the bustling sound of drums and gongs, the sound of funeral orations, prayers, and thanksgiving for the merits of the ancestors who reclaimed the land, built villages, and established streets to create the bustling streets like today; forever remembering the heroic martyrs who sacrificed for independence, freedom, and national liberation for a lasting country; praying for favorable weather, heaven and earth to protect people, for the people to live and work in peace, for good business; praying for national peace and prosperity, for a peaceful homeland, and for every family to be well-off.

Ceremony scene

This year's Spring Festival is the 100th, also on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of national reunification, making the atmosphere more solemn and important, and the space of the communal house more sacred.

People offer incense and pray to their ancestors to protect and bless their homeland and country with peace.

This is also an opportunity for people in the town and ward to express their admiration for their ancestors, meet each other, strengthen the village relationship, and strive to build a civilized and modern Da Lat.

Source: https://baolamdong.vn/xa-hoi/202504/le-te-xuan-va-ky-niem-100-nam-lap-dinh-an-hoa-ngoi-dinh-co-nhat-da-lat-34b45b2/