Duc Duc Tomb

Location: Lang Duc Duc is located in An Cuu Ward, Dist. Hue, Thua Thien - Hue.
Features: Mausoleum with simple architecture and modest. It is also the resting place of King Thanh Thai and Duy Tan.
Compared to other royal tombs of the Nguyen emperors, Duc Duc Tomb simple architecture and modest. Rectangular tomb covers an area of ​​3.445m², no Bi Dinh inside and stone statues. On the steering to go through quite a large triple gate, brick, on the false roof.
 
After the door is Bai Dinh no stone statues only railing with lime brick building. Next door is a gate 3 storey building also false roof and decorated with flowers by the image embossed porcelain ...
Buu Thanh the center has a real image is built on a square with each side about 8m, tiled roofs, superb lapis inside desks and collapsed stone incense stick is used to display and offering the same period. Both sides described property is Duc Duc Tomb King and Queen Siming located symmetrically. King's grave leaf embossed with the word "joy" put together, symmetric with "double happiness" is the image the word "life".
Dien Long An: in the center of the area soaked, built in the mold of the power house in Hue. Inside there are three kings altar plaques: Duc Duc (and wife worship center), Thanh Thai (left) and Duy Tan (right).
 
Long An electric rear resting place of two kings Thanh Thai and Duy Tan. In this area there are many graves of relatives of those kings on.

Duc Duc Tomb architecture also provides general specifications of the other tomb, but there are some specific features its own art. Duc Duc Tomb enrich the nuances and the quality of the architectural ensemble of mausoleums.
 
Biography of Kings:
 
King Duc Duc
 
King Duc Duc real name is Nguyen Phuc Ung Chan was born in 1852, the 2-year-old was selected by King Tu Duc adoption. After King Tu Duc died, according to the Mobile Projector throne, Ung Chan courtiers took the throne on April 19.7.1883 and named for his investment losses Duc Duc. But just three days later Duc Duc was deposed for the crime of daring to omit a paragraph in the first cell of the imperial throne projector and incarcerated in prison. Date 10/24/1883 unfortunate king died of starvation in prison, the corpse is wrapped in mat, assigned to several soldiers buried burden, halfway broken shoulder line, the bodies falling midway, people selected ground "celestial burial" that make permanent resting place of the King and burial through the speakers.

King Thanh Thai
 
The Thai king is the son of Buu Duc Duc Lan real name was brought up as king in 1889, is placed Thanh Thai reign. In early 1890, Thanh Thai built the tomb of his father at the grave disaster that buried and named An Lang.
 
The Thai 11th year (1899) the king for Long An electrical construction in the tomb as a place to worship his father.
 
1907, King Thanh Thai was dethroned because of ideological anti-French, and exiled to expatriation.

In 1953, King Thanh Thai was returning home and living in Saigon, in 1954 he died, the corpse was taken to the royal burial site Duc Duc Tomb.
 
King Duy Tan
 
King Duy Tan Thanh Thai king's son was taken to the throne in 1907. In 1916, the King Duy Tan was arrested for being part of the anti-French uprising led by Thai Version and Tran Cao Van organizations. DTU also banished banished as his father. In 1987, the remains were reburied King Duy Tan returned from central Africa with the tomb of King Thanh Thai buried.