Castle
Lạc Tịnh Viên
Private garden house where a family still tends an ancestral altar and feeds the poor each Sunday.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Lạc Tịnh Viên, a private garden house in Huế, follows the ancestor-worship ritual a single family has kept unbroken for more than a century. It traces the estate back to Hồng Khẳng, a royal descendant who built the first shelter here for his mother in eighteen eighty-nine, and to the altar hall and charitable hall his devotion grew into. You will hear what the carved railings, the incense, and the garden's spirit-screen are meant to do, and meet the woman who still tends them every morning.
This audio guide was created using AI.