On June 14, information from the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Thanh Hoa province said that the unit had just issued a document reporting to the Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee on the inspection, verification and handling of press information reflecting the degradation situation at Bai Son communal house relic (Tong Son commune).
According to the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Thanh Hoa province, Bai Son communal house (formerly belonging to Ha Tien commune, former Ha Trung district - now Tong Son commune, Thanh Hoa province) was recognized as a provincial-level architectural and artistic relic in 1996.
The communal house dates back to the Nguyen Dynasty, with a Dinh-shaped structure, consisting of a large communal house with 5 compartments and 4 roofs. The load-bearing frame system is made of wood, 8 porch columns have been replaced by concrete columns. The front porch is expanded, adding 4 stone columns; the roof is tiled at the nose, the foundation is tiled.
Actual inspection shows that the communal house is currently seriously degraded. The wooden load-bearing frame system (columns, beams, horizontal panels, rui me...) is termite-ridden, rotten, broken and heavily damaged. Tiles are fallen and broken; walls are cracked, tree roots are encroached. Foundation subsided, foundations are subsided. The locality has proactively implemented support and reinforcement measures to limit the risk of collapse and ensure safety for people and property.
In addition, the garden campus is still messy, divided into many levels of foundation, and there is no specific planning for the yard, roads, drainage ditches, lighting and green tree system.
Faced with the above situation, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Thanh Hoa province, together with the Department of Construction, Department of Finance, and Department of Justice, have agreed to include Bai Son communal house relic in the list of preservation, restoration, and restoration of relics in the province in the period 2026 - 2030, and submit it to the Provincial People's Committee for consideration and decision.
In addition, the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism of Thanh Hoa province has also issued an official letter confirming the degraded condition of the relic to serve as a basis for preparing a project to repair and restore Bai Son communal house.
Previously, as Lao Dong Newspaper reported, the ancient Bai Son communal house (Bai Son village, Tong Son commune, Thanh Hoa province) was built from the Nguyen Dynasty (19th century). Over hundreds of years, the relic has seriously deteriorated, many wooden columns, because the inner beams are rotten, and there is a risk of collapse at any time.
Real-world records of Lao Dong Newspaper reporters show that many architectural components are damaged, cracked and broken; columns and beams are termite-ridden, many beams, beams, and crossbars are broken and broken; tiled roofs are skewed and broken, causing leaks.
To protect the relic, local authorities and people of Bai Son village used dozens of bamboo stakes and reeds to support and temporarily reinforce, causing the space of the communal house to be densely covered.
According to a representative of the leadership of Tong Son Commune People's Committee, in the face of the serious degradation of the relic, while the restoration cost is very large, the commune is developing a plan, reporting to the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism to submit to the Provincial People's Committee for consideration and approval of the restoration and embellishment project, in order to preserve and promote the value of the relic.
