Bana Rong House

Kon Tum, Kon Tum Province, Vietnam

The communal house in the Central Highlands has existed or is existing in nine ethnic groups in the Central Highlands: Ba na, Se Dang, Jrai, Gie-trieng, Bra6u, Romam, Co-Tu, Ta-oi and Bru-Van Kieu. This is a common house of each village, a separate house, a community house in the traditional village society of the Central Highlands.

Rong house of the Bana people. Those are houses shaped like axes pointing to the sky, massive and superficial, but holy. The fancy shape creates an impression of the magnificence and typical beauty of the Rong house. The roof is usually 15-20 m high, the length is a bit shorter than the floor and slightly arched. The floor is 2m to about 3m high. The floor is divided into two equal parts.

Common is the three-room house, ie there are 4 because of columns; 2 because the gable columns are both narrower and slightly lower than 2 because of the nave columns. That's how to curve the floor, main roof and side vac1j. The form of siding that leans outwards is common. The door opens in the middle of the front of the house, through the courtyard floor to the stairs.

Rong house is a kind of communal house of each village, separate house, community house in Tan Nguyen traditional village society. The Rong house has more than a dozen functions that coexist and intertwine:

1. Rong house is the guest house of the village

2. Rong house is the village hall

3. Rong house is the collective house of unmarried village men and widowers

4. The Rong house is the school of the village boys according to the traditional way of education

5. The Rong house is the headquarters of the village governance organization

6. The Rong house is the battle command center when there is a war

7. Nha Rong is the village club

8. Rong house is the "traditional house" of the village

9. The Rong house is the center of the village's religious activities

Currently, Rong House in the Central Highlands is increasingly degraded. Only a few villages still have the traditional Rong house (but it has also lost the mysterious and generous features of the communal house: for example, replacing the tree with a flagpole, having a fence to protect the communal house, even. There are communal houses as partitions made of galvanized wire, and communal houses are built according to the Kinh manager's thinking, built of ciment and corrugated iron). It won't be long before you see a "real" Rong house of the Central Highlands people.

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