The mansion of the cat king of Bac Ha

After nearly 100 years of existence with the time, King Cat mansion or Hoang A Tuong palace (Bac Ha, Lao Cai) still retains the beauty and majesty of the most powerful family in the white highland.

Hoang A Tuong's mansion or King Meo's mansion is located in the center of Bac Ha district, Lao Cai province is a superficial building built in 1914 and completed in 1921. The person with meritorious construction is the Hoang Yen Chao Company. , Tay people and father of Hoang A Tuong.Remembering the cruelty of the Bac Ha land lord, Hoang Kim Lai (75 years old), who lived under Hoang Yen Typhoon TChao, ruthlessly ruled: 'Hoang Yen TChao is a Tay ethnic ( In 1883, at Chau Thuy Vi, Phu Quy Hoa is now Bac Ha district, Lao Cai province).When Hoang Yen TChao became the lord of this region, I was also over 10 years old.Listening to his parents, before the French colonialists came to invade, Mr. Chao was a wealthy and powerful Chief of the North Ha land. '

This mansion is built in the Asian-European style combined, by two French and Chinese architects directly designing and directing the construction.The work has a harmonious intertwining, closed rectangular layout and has a total of 36 rooms.To enter the campus inside the mansion, visitors must step up the stairs from both sides to the waiting room.After that, you will see a large yard often used to hold ceremonies, organize singing and dancing or have fun.

The two-storey main building has an area of ​​420 m2, with arched door frame featuring European architectural style.This is a house for Hoang A family to live and use as a meeting place.

The two sides of the house are two horizontal blocks with the same layout and architecture.Each row is two floors and lower than the main house, each floor has 3 spaces, used as living room, dining room, bedroom of 3 wives of Hoang Yen Chao, 2 wives of Hoang A Tuong, and for 2 advisors French and Chinese.

Currently, the project has been used as a tourist attraction under the management of Lao Cai tourism information center officials.One side of the room is used as a place to sell handmade products such as towels, shirts, brocade dresses or pipe, silver rings .

Located in the left of the first floor from the entrance to the house is the display of art works of Bac Ha in particular and the northern provinces in general.These are artistic photos of upland ethnic life, traditional costume models of many ethnic groups such as Dao, Cat .

The house has a special terrain, invited by a Chinese geography teacher invited by Hoang Yen Chao to see, lying on a wide hill with the Southeast, behind and on the right, the left is surrounded by mountains, in front There are streams and mountains "mother holding children".

When the Lao Cai tourist information center is located inside the mansion of King Meo, the center staff has built a model of traditional maize wine cooking by Bac Ha people.The wine stove is located right behind the house which introduces the way to cook wine as well as for visitors to enjoy Bac Ha corn wine in place.

Over nearly 100 years of existence with so many ups and downs of the Hoang A Tuong family, the mansion still preserves the majesty, stands firmly in time and is always a symbol of authority in a high time. white raw.