A place to preserve cultural values ​​and revolutionary events

CULTURAL VALUES AND BELIEFS

Lang Ong is located 17 km northeast of Go Cong city center, about 2.5 km from Tan Phuoc Commune People's Committee. After more than 100 years of existence, affected by many wars, Lang Ong Tan Phuoc still retains its original values.

The mausoleum has a construction area of ​​824 m2 on the bank of Soai Rap River, including the surrounding fence, mausoleum gate, the shell, the main hall, the chimney and the warehouse. The shell has an area of ​​210 m2, the floor is paved with ceramic tiles including: 18 columns supporting the roof, including 6 square wooden columns. The surrounding area is built with high walls and wooden bars to create a cool space. Inside the shell, connected to the facade is the opera stage built of cement. The two rows of columns from the outside looking in are decorated with parallel sentences:

"The country is prosperous and the people are safe, the saints have boundless longevity"

“Happiness like the Eastern sea, longevity like the Southern mountains”.

The main hall has an area of ​​78 m2, including 2 roof floors in the style of a cake, with 4 round columns and 8 columns running around the wall. Before entering the main hall is the facade with the inscription "Lang Ong Duc Nam Hai" established in 1925 (At Suu). The system of doors of the worship hall is made of wood in the style of upper and lower panels, including 1 main door and 2 doors on both sides. On the 4 pillars of the main hall are decorated with 2 pairs of parallel sentences.

Inside the mausoleum is the altar of Uncle Ho, inside the altar of Uncle Ho is a cement facade with a vivid lotus painting underneath, the 4 main pillars of the main shrine are embossed with dragons winding around them, very unique. Inside the 4 main pillars is the altar of the "Water God" embossed in Chinese characters on a cement altar, the gold letters on a red background have a dragon painted on them. On both sides of the altar of the "Water God", on the wall are two red-painted whale bones.

Below, on the altar, are two cement coffins containing the remains of whales. On the left and right of the “Water God” altar are two altars, the Left and Right. The altar and the shrine are made of cement with a red background and yellow letters depicting stylized phoenixes, “two dragons fighting for a pearl”, flowers, landscapes and fish and shrimps, very vividly. The smokehouse and the warehouse are two items with an area of ​​61 m2 and 34.5 m2. These are two houses that serve the festival days at the mausoleum.

Every year, at the Mausoleum, there is a custom of worshipping the Whale on the full moon day of the 5th lunar month with rituals imbued with the traditions of coastal people, praying for favorable weather, calm seas, and smooth sailing when going out to sea.

LOCATION ASSOCIATED WITH MANY REVOLUTIONARY HISTORIES

According to the stories of revolutionary elders in the commune, in 1940, patriots in Tan Phuoc commune gathered forces, used drums and gongs to beat loudly at the mausoleum to respond to the Southern uprising in My Tho and Go Cong.

In 1945, the Vanguard Youth Union was chosen by Mr. Bui Van Tam (Tam Linh) as a place to train forces for a long period of time. In 1948, Mr. Nhi (a commune guerrilla) along with Mr. Tu Phuoc, Mr. Tu Lun, Mr. Nguyen Van Sy (Squad Leader of Platoon 9, Squad 19, Zone 8) commanded the resistance movement against the French in Tan Phuoc and used the mausoleum as a place to meet, discuss, gather forces, and prepare weapons to participate in the battle against a puppet soldier platoon commanded by a French officer. After that, the platoon ambushed a French soldier platoon commanded by officer Brinion, and we captured 1 submachine gun.

Also during this time, Mr. Nguyen Van Thanh - Go Cong Dong District Police - often came to gather people to fight against the French colonialists. At that time, the Mausoleum was a place where revolutionary forces often came to meet, mobilize the masses to participate in movements such as: recruiting soldiers,educating , punishing those who owed blood debts to the people, so the people built many secret tunnels here to prevent the enemy from coming to hunt them down. The secret tunnels were made in the kitchen, outside the house and right below the altar.

In 1957, the Go Cong District Art Troupe organized practice and performances at the mausoleum. In 1960, the Dong Khoi movement took place strongly in many places. Mr. Le Van Xum and the guerrilla team gathered the masses at the mausoleum, using drums and gongs to respond to the movement very enthusiastically.

In 1968, the mausoleum was a recruitment point, supplementing soldiers for the armed forces to serve in major battles against the US-puppet sweeps in Go Cong. During this time, meetings of revolutionary forces often took place at the mausoleum, so they were discovered by the enemy.

They organized the suppression of the people; at the same time, they murdered all those suspected of harboring revolutionary cadres. Here, the policeman Bach used a gun to kill many innocent people such as: Mrs. Nam Xuong, Mrs. Sau Khe, Mrs. Tu Cuom...

With the determination to destroy all our resistance bases in Tan Phuoc, from 1969 to 1970, the US and puppets completely burned down the mausoleum. By 1972, Xom Lang was pacified and terrorized by the enemy. After the liberation of the South and the reunification of the country on April 30, 1975, the Nam Hai Ong Mausoleum was rebuilt by local people with money contributed to it as a place to worship Whale and conduct community cultural activities, true to its original function.

In 2012, Ong Nam Hai Tomb - Tan Phuoc Commune was recognized as a historical and cultural relic by the People's Committee of Tien Giang Province.

NGUYEN MANH THANG

Source: https://baoapbac.vn/van-hoa-nghe-thuat/202505/lang-ong-nam-hai-xa-tan-phuoc-noi-luu-giu-nhung-gia-tri-van-hoa-va-su-kien-cach-mang-1041896/