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Conferred the title of "National Historical and Cultural Site" in 1993, the house has kept many documents about the architecture, culture, art and lifestyle of the the Hoi An's business circle from the old days. Phung Hung House bears the popular style of the 19th century. it has a tubular shape with a wide facade. It is not as long as some other old-style houses. It is mainly made of wood, with two storeys and four roofs. Its two adjoining parts look north-west. The ground floor used to be the shop. Today, it is the family's living room furnished with some wooden old-style cupboards containing many precious objects and belongings. The house has 80 columns made of precious wood. Each column stands on a lotus-shaped base in order to minimize subsidence and moisture for the house and to prevent termites from damaging it. There are square pillars on the veranda, which roof is made of pan-tiles.
A wide corridor surrounds the second storey, made of wood. On the floor, there is a square hole used for moving goods upstairs. The second floor is now reserved for the worship of the family's ancestors and of Thien Hau Holy Mother. On the table, in front of the altar, there is always a bowl with seven marble dices, which the owner used to employ to decide the departure time before his far-away journeys. The architecture of Phung Hung house represents the combination of Vietnamese, Japanese and Chinese styles. There are a lot of designs carved by carpenters of Kim Bong Village. The house used to be a shop trading in cinnamon. pepper, salt, silk, chinaware and glassware. Now part of the house is used as a workshop for making commercial embroideries. |
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