Tu Duc Mausoleum (Well Lang)

Location: Tomb of Tu Duc Thuy Bieu is located at Str. Hue, Thua Thien - Hue.
Features: Mausoleum was built in 1864 and completed in 1867 on an area of ​​475ha. Unlike the built-proportioned tomb, Tu Duc built liberal, harmony with nature is available to reflect the romantic soul of this poet king.
Tu Duc tomb is a masterpiece poem, a picture painted marine charming, reminds visitors a "beautifully poetic soul" (une Douce Rêve). King Tu Duc Mausoleum was built in a context of extremely difficult history of the country and of the king himself.
King was born in 1829, ascended the throne in 20 years (1848). Then 10 years, as the court of Hue applied narrow foreign policy, the French colonialists attacked Da Nang (1858) and then to invade Gia Dinh (1859) and some other provinces in South America (1862) .. . king Tu Duc was quite sufficient to absorb the culture and philosophy Oriental with its internal contradictions between the positive and negative at the time older children, between life and death. As the country's defeat as more aging, he increasingly pessimistic. The king thought of death will certainly come to his life, and to alleviate the suffering of the tormented rest of your life, so it ordered the construction of royal tombs as a second to come up here sometimes pepper control, rest, and also to make "house I do my castle" (eternal dance of corn, extract all well the same period).
Standing in our time looking back plight of the country that time, the great architectural scale of the tomb of King costly, and provide the name Well, Well Lang used to name it, we see there is also an internal contradictions difficult to justify by the king himself.

Anyhow, after construction is complete tomb, King Tu Duc also added 16 more years to live longer, until 1883, 55 years life.
After the specialized agencies of geography and earth to see a choice location in the village of Duong Xuan Thuong, King Tu Duc had "rectified" architectural blueprints tombs according to their preferences in May 10/1864. But there must be considered a good day for you, and so new to December of that year started construction.
 
The entire work of this architecture contemplated mausoleum will be constructed in 6 years with 3,000 soldiers and workers, and they will be alternately on vacation for 3 months. But members of Public Attorney Nguyen Van Quality time was made in the vessel for 3 years only. Appointed him court and marshal Le Van Binh Xa in the caretaker stands out the construction.
Forums are not taking turns to stay coerced, strengthen labor to the fullest extent of the minimum conditions, 3,000 troops and disgruntled worker had answered the call of Doan Trung uprising. 09/17/1866 Night dawning of the day 16 they used the guise of religion pro "completed the five greatest respect" pull the Citadel to overthrow the throne of King Tu Duc to put Ying Tao, grandson of King Gia Long 5 advent to the throne, but as to reach the Thai Hoa Palace, the imperial army was a strong reaction, should fail. The rebellion was completely extinguished. An accident of King Tu Duc has gone, but the king's reputation no less vulnerable, because this is not a foreign invasion, which is a well-turn right in the heart of central court.
Of the 13 kings Nguyen, Tu Duc was the most profound of the Eastern education, especially Confucianism. King good at both historians, philosophy, literature and art, and especially very fond of poetry. King has left 600 texts and 4,000 kanji writing poems and about 100 poems Nom. King poems reflect a compassionate man, a sentimental soul, material, art fans. He also declared persona is clearly on the architecture of the tomb of King. Using said the king had "rectified" (decider) model to build it. Within the wide La 12ha, nearly 50 large and small buildings scattered in clusters on the complex's lower elevations of land about 10 meters each. But, the system steps stick stone, the brick walkways winding Bat Trang has connected all the buildings into a unified, correlated, close.
Well past the Palace Gate, the gate door two-story building on a land so high, people entering a palace system of several dozen large and small buildings and architecture dependent.
 
Horizontal buildings along here already ranges for kings and concubines entourage union occasionally to stay fun. Intelligent Well Road - the ancient theater and bring value decorative art of architecture. Hoa Dien Well - places of worship and logistics empire, is also a source of royal furniture and contemporary works of art.
If homes in Khiem Palace were made of wood, all the buildings in the area the other tombs are built of brick and stone. Most remarkably is Vietnam's largest stela about 5 meters high, is protected by a massive concrete building with large columns, wall thickness and construction DOORS. The architects had built Bi-style home with materials and knowledge so as to cope with the times. On the hill, located across the lake semicircle Buu Thanh Tieu Khiem Tri is brick and the center has a small stone house bar, where the king rest. Buu to be covered by a green pine forest, over four meters of weapons rang