Danang/Hue/HoiAn 2025 - Hoi An Quan Cong Temple (3/3)

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Danang/Hue/HoiAn 2025 - Hoi An Quan Cong Temple (2/3)

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Danang/Hue/HoiAn 2025 - Hoi An Quan Cong Temple (1/3)

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Danang/Hue/HoiAn 2025 - Hoi An Hokkien Clan Temple (3/3)

 

More lovely doors! I am obsess with such lovely doors!

Tiles and doors. I guess my photos speaks louder than my words here. 

Small corner of the clan house. People used to use it for gathering, for places to come and gossip maybe? Discuss business or family affairs.

Halls for maybe gathering? Studying? Ceremony? To be frank, I've never belong to any clan officially before! Mainly cause my families are all English speaking, and we have kinda forgotten our roots after settling in Malaysia for generations..... We have all these there, but we aren't really a part of it as maybe someone who is more active in these circle.

More lovely ring incense.

I don't really know why I have so many of these photos. Lol.

More lovely doors.

Soon I think we came to the temple part of the building. My friend is seen here praying. 

The altars for the Gods or deities are a lot more elaborated. 

I think this is near the Mazu altar. Love the tiles in blue. 

For sea crossing immigrants, Mazu the sea goddess is greatly worship for good weather and smooth sailing. She is found almost in every country that has immigrant south Chinese people, mainly Hokkien.

Mazu herself (I think....)

Even the ship has it's own altar! Smooth sailing!

At the back of the building, another small courtyard where another fountain exist. This one was special.

It was a dragon fountain! 

And so me as a dragon, got to have my photo taken with the dragon. It was nice to know that I belong at the very inner part of this old building. As if the dragon is so precious it has to be hidden away and kept in their own courtyard! I like that. I like to have my own inner part of the house for sure!

Danang/Hue/HoiAn 2025 - Hoi An Hokkien Clan Temple (2/3)

Walking into the clan temple, we were greeted with even more art work. From the door frame, to the walls, the doors, everything! If you take your time, you could cover every single inch of this building and find something delicate to admire. The wordings in gold here just says Hokkien Clan House. 

And on the two sides of it, were these detail art pieces, too high to see in details, but you knew it was lovely and took some artisans to create these. 

They exist on both sides, and both side has different designs and paintings on it. 

Walking in, these are the door looking out. Pretty similar to what you will find in Penang clan houses. 

But there seems to be more paintings on the wall here. 

Not sure what they are saying with these paintings. History? Legends? I didn't see much descriptions on them. 

Walking in further, we came to another hall with a lovely floor design, and ring incense hanging from the ceiling. 

 

Lovely floor tiles! And the incenses are so mesmorising. 

Further in, more paintings and altar. Not sure what altar are these. Ancestors? 

They looked like it, but it's rather few compared to what you will find in the clan houses of Penang. 

Association photos. These must be all the Hokkien living in Hoi An! But somehow, Hokkien doesn't seems to be spoken widely here, not like in Singapore or Penang where you can hear it on the streets and in daily lives. 

Confucious is here too!

I love green doors! And this one even has a dragon carved into it! It looked western, yet easter at the same time. I want a house with such door! There is a village called Wentworth in the UK that only has green doors! I could own a house there and have green doors according to the village code, but mine would have a dragon on it! Ha!