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Connected to the main house, there is also a kitchen made of bamboo and neohouzeaua leaves. This is the kitchen that Mr. Sac built after renting a house so that Mrs. Loan had a place to put the handloom to weave cloth, cook and serve for family activities.

In the small kitchen, the bamboo cot is the place where the family gathers for frugal but cozy meals. On summer afternoons by the creaking handloom, Uncle Ho fell asleep on a bamboo cot while listening to his mother’s lullabies about his hometown.

In the house next to Dong Ba Street on that day, every the third date of August…. although in the city, poverty still persisted all year round. All burdens fell on the shoulders of the mother. Her life was hard, diligent and patient like a shuttle by the handloom on day and night, which was the biggest asset and also the only means of livelihood for his family.

Studying at the Imperial Academy was a good thing, but the scholarship was too negligible, it was Mrs. Hoang Thi Loan's courage and diligence that was an important condition to ensure a life for the whole family. Mrs. Loan was a skilled craftswoman. In her hometown, the silk fabrics woven by her was very popular with people around the area, but in Hue, she had to try to learn how to spin and dye to produce suitable fabrics in compliance with the tastes of the people here.

At night, under the light of peanut oil lamps, in addition to the image of Mr. Sac ardently studying for exams, there was also the creaking sound of the fabric weaving  by Mrs. Loan with the confided feelings of a wife and mother who sacrificed for her husband and children. The wife wove fabrics to support her husband and children, the husband diligently taught their two children to be good people. Happiness in poverty has attached family members to each other everyday with neighbors here.

It can be said that by working with all her love for her husband and children, Mrs. Loan has woven the beautiful life and career of her husband and children. According to Mr. Vu Ky, who has lived with President Ho Chi Minh for many years, for his family members, Uncle Ho most often talked about his mother. While traveling abroad, on the way of revolutionary activities, at a night in Thailand, late at night listening to an overseas Vietnamese mother singing her child to sleep, the sweet memories of childhood came back to his heart:

“A few years away from home

Last night, I heard my mother singing me to sleep"

In early 1901, after completing his duties at the first-degree exam of Thanh Hoa examination school, Mr. Sac returned to his hometown when he heard the bad news, he immediately returned to Hue, shocked for his family situation, his good wife left without any word. After Mrs. Loan died, because of lack of mother, thirst for milk and illness, Xin also died here. Unable to raise his children alone in a foreign land, after thanking for the kindness of his neighbors, he took the children back to his hometown, then returned to the Hue capital to participate in the Metropolitan examination for the third time of Tan Suu Faculty (1901). This time, he was the second best examinee and was given the honorary flag by the King to return to his hometown for making a thanksgiving to ancestors.

After Mr. Sac left, the house was returned to the old owner. Through time and war, the house has changed its name many times and there are other new architectural works built in front of the house. By 1986, the house was verified to be the place where President Ho Chi Minh and his family spent their childhood. In 1990, the house was renovated and restored.

With deeply historical and humanistic values, President Ho Chi Minh’s Memorial House at 112 Mai Thuc Loan (new number 158), Hue city is owned by Ministry of Culture and Information (currently referred to Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism) and recognized as a national historical - cultural relic on February 02^nd 1993; on December 31^st 2020, it was classified as a national special relic by the Prime Minister. In addition, this place becomes an indispensable address in the journey to find the heritage of President Ho Chi Minh in Thua Thien Hue.

Please continue to visit the garden, landscape and take souvenir photos at the relic!