MY SON IS THE CHURCH OF THE KINGDOM OF CHAMPS.
My Son is located in Duy Phu commune, Duy Xuyen district, Quang Nam province, about 70 km from Da Nang city. kilometers to the southwest, about 40km from Hoi An city. My Son Temple is located in a valley about 2km in diameter, surrounded by hills and mountains, in mountain ranges about 100m to 400m from East Truong Son through My Son to Tra Kieu. My Son is a Hindu holy place of Champa Kingdom.
Each king, after the throne, went to My Son to do the holy, offering sacrifices and building the temple. My Son is the only point of Cham art that has been developing continuously from the 7th to the 13th century. In the early seventh century, King Sambhuvarman built the temple with very durable, to this day. The emperors later renovated the old temples and built new temples to offer their gods. The main temples in My Son worship a Linga or the image of Siva - the protector of the Champa lineage.
The god who is worshiped in My Son is Bhadrésvara, the king who founded the first king of the Amaravati region in the late 4th century together with the god Siva, became the main religious worship god - king and royal ancestors. . In 1885, the My Son ruins were discovered by a group of French soldiers. In 1898 - 1899, two French researchers, L.Finot and L.de Lajonquière and the architect and archaeologist H. Parmentier came to My Son to study the stonework and the art of architecture. carve Cham. Until the years 1903-1904 the most basic materials on inscriptions and architectural art My Son was officially published by L.Finot. Temple towers in My Son are divided into several clusters, built according to the same principle.
The structure of each cluster consists of a main temple (Kalan), surrounded by small towers or side structures. The main temple stands for Meru Mountain - the center of the universe, the convergence of the gods and the worship of Siva. The temples (secondary shrines) worship the gods looking heaven. There are also secondary buildings that are often roofed tile roof, where the pilgrimage ceremony, store the sacrifice. The temple of the Cham does not have windows, only the new auxiliary tower has windows.
Temples, Cham towers built of brick, grafted with sandstone decorated panels. They are aligned with each other and no work has yet been identified for the adhesive. After the tower was built, new sculptors began carving flowers, figures, animals ... up the tower. Cham sculpture is rarely seen in other arts in the area. Each temple tower in My Son has three main parts: the tower, the tower and the tower: the tower: in the Champa conception, the tower represents the mundane world, usually built on square or rectangular, brick or slate.
Around the base is decorated with motifs, figures of animals, prayers standing in small arches ... Stupa: also in the Champa conception, the pyramid represents the spiritual world, where people wash out the dust that is escaping to contact with the ancestors and integrate with the gods. Tower: The tower's roof symbolizes the divine, usually three-tiered as the higher the narrow. Each floor replicates the structure of the main door and pseudo-artifacts below and is decorated with idols and rides of the gods in Hinduism such as: goddess, goddess, goddess, elephant, lion ...
The first and second floors in each corner often decorated the small towers. According to the researchers of the ancient Cham towers, the art of Cham towers in My Son converge in many styles, with continuity from ancient style in the 7th to 8th century, Hoa Lai style in the 8th century. 9th century, Dong Duong style from the middle of 9th century, My Son style and transition between My Son and Binh Dinh, Binh Dinh style Long now people call the temples in My Son rhyme A, A ' , B, C, D ... is the division and naming convention of Henri Parmentier. He relied on the walls surrounding the pyramid to arrange them with a letter.
The direct observation, it was found that the numbering in each of his groups seemed to depend on the performance of each temple, tower. Starting from the main temple - the tower's most important group, bearing the number 1; Gate No. 2; The remaining towers, depending on their function, are assigned the next number. His naming method is very significant in researching and managing the My Son heritage site for many years. Of the 225 Cham monuments discovered in Vietnam, My Son alone has about 70 temples, 32 bears exist in one form or another. The temples here are no longer intact, but are still the best materials to understand the development of Cham art. The art of Cham sculpture has deeply influenced India, but in the process of developing its indigenous identity and becoming more and more assertive, it has created a unique appearance, a strange charm. Cham sculpture also has pictures of monks, dancers and hedonists, but the highlight is the characteristics of the intense vitality of the human with reflexes in flight, calm calm, at the python In December 1999, at the 23rd session of the World Heritage Committee held in Marrakesh (Morocco), the temple complex of My Son was chosen by UNESCO as one of the World Heritage Sites. Standard 2 as a good example of cultural exchange and as standard 3 as the only evidence of an Asian civilization has disappeared.
NECESSARY INFORMATION:
Entrance fee: (including tram and entertainment fees) - Domestic: VND 100,000 / person; - International visitors: 150,000 VND / person; - Children under 10 years old free of charge.
Opening hours: Opening hours for sightseeing:
Summer: from 6:00 to 17:00
Winter: From 6:30 to 17:00 (Opening times of relics on all days of the week, including holidays)
Passenger transport: 6 to 8 seats tram system, transfer from Khe Dat bridge (about 2km) to the temple tower. Activities in My Son: *
Cham performances: 3 days, all days of the week (1 performance at 9.30 am, 2 performances at 10:30 pm, 3 performances at 14.30).
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