Collection of Cham ethnic costumes

Làng Tịnh Mỹ dọc theo quốc lộ 1A Xã Phan Thanh, Huyện Bắc Bình, Tỉnh Bình Thuận
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In Tinh My village along Highway 1A - Cham name is Plei Canar, a Cham Ahier village, Phan Thanh commune, Bac Binh district, a few dozen meters from Highway 1A is the house of Mrs. Nguyen Thi Them, a descendant of the royal family. Champa tribe.

People here also respectfully call it "Nai Them" - Princess Them. She was born in 1911 and passed away in 1995. According to matriarchal culture, her daughter inherited the royal house and antiquities.

Luckily, Lu Quoc Thien, her grandson, was at home preparing and redecorating some antiques. When he heard I was coming from afar, he warmly welcomed me and brought me up to see the antique display. on the second floor. His grandson follows his mother's bloodline, and his surname Lu is his father's surname. He said this one-story house was built in 1964. According to his grandmother, it cost 200 rice carts, a type of buffalo cart with wooden wheels, equivalent to 200 tons of rice. The house is not massive but solid, the lime walls are old, the floor is tiled, the stairs are cemented like when it was first built. In addition to a number of silver, bronze, and ceramic antiques kept on wooden shelves, battle swords and wooden storage boxes are kept outside, most of them are displayed in glass cabinets such as ordinations, costumes, and silver and bronze items. , including many bronze klongs containing nine skull fragments of the deceased according to Brahmin custom. The room is like a miniature museum. He also showed me two places where klong of many generations of the royal family is still kept in the corner of the garden, which is expected to be built into kut. The Cham people of Tinh My village follow Brahmanism, kut is a cemetery on the mother's side that keeps nine skull fragments in the klong.

According to her story, during the "Golden Week" campaign during the resistance war against the French, the family donated the crown of King Po Klaong Khul and the Cham queen's hair bun (the Vietnamese wife did not have a hair bun made of silver). gold) and some gold objects also belonged to the reign of King Po Klong Khul. They had documents but were lost. There is an article stating that King Po Klaong Khul ascended the throne in 1627, the year of his death is unknown.

After King Po Muh Taha (crowned in 1622, died in 1627) passed away, his temple was built on a high sand cave, called "Ghul Muhnai" in Cham (ghul: high cave, muhnai: sand and gravel), so it is often called Po Klaong Muhnai. Currently, his temple is in Luong Son commune, Bac Binh district. According to the Champa Chronicle (Sakkarai Dak Rai Patao), among the 37 kings of the Panduranga region, there was no king named Po Klaong Muhnai. The king who ascended the throne in 1627 was Po Rome (died in 1651), the son-in-law of King Po Muh Taha. . King Po Rome had three queens, including a Vietnamese queen, Princess Ngoc Khoa. Is it possible that King Po Klaong Khul is King Po Rome, and the crown and bun donated during the "Golden Week" belong to King Po Rome and the queen?

In addition to the donated crown and bun, the family still keeps a crown of King Po Klaong Muhnai and a bun of the queen's hair, both made of gold. Due to the special value of this treasure, it should be kept separately and not displayed here.

Mrs. Them is a descendant of a long-standing royal family of Champa in the Panduranga region, not a royal family of the last dynasty of Champa. The Champa king's crown and Queen's bun kept here are the only ones remaining to this day, being 4 centuries old.

The house of Mrs. Nguyen Thi Them, a Champa princess, hopes to become a private museum that will be a destination not only for Bac Binh district but also for Binh Thuan province, attracting tourists from all over to enjoy antiques. Unique original of the Champa royal family.

Source: Binh Thuan Newspaper

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