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The traditional long house of the Ede people is a unique architectural space complex that represents the characteristics of religious and spiritual life, a creative work of material culture. Impressive quality of this ethnic group. In traditional Ede society, the long house is a place where a large family lives together according to the matriarchal system. The house is often extended every time a female member of the family builds it A married man will live in his wife’s house and has no authority. Normally, the Ede ethnic long house has 7-9 couples living together in the traditional long house The system of sculptural and decorative values is based on the motif of the matriarchal system of prosperous beliefs. The space of the long house is arranged with Kpan chairs to sit and play gongs on the kitchen fire; showing wealth: gongs, jars, buffalo horns, turtles, lizards, vegetables, etc.
In Dak Lak province according to the latest statistics of the Department of Culture and Sports Sports & Tourism in this province as of the end of 2011, there were 2,608 long houses in the province. Previously, 100% of Ede M’nong villages had long houses with 50 – 60 long houses per village. Dak Lak province has about 600 villages, the latest statistics above show an alarming decline in traditional Ede long houses.
Talk with reporter Dan Tri Mr. Truong Bi – Deputy Director of the Department of Culture – Sports & Tourism of Dak Lak province said: “In the context of strongly developing urban civilization, compatriots Realizing that the long house was outdated, it was necessary to demolish it and build a solid house like the Kinh people’s house to ensure that the house would be warm in winter and cool in summer to serve the needs of modern life. On the other hand, the materials to make long houses are now very expensive and it is difficult to buy good wood, so when people build houses, they rarely build long houses. Even the village community cultural house is built with reinforced concrete but simulates the long house architecture to facilitate meetings and organize traditional festivals. In addition, in recent times, many areas of the Ede people have invested in expanding coffee and rubber pepper production, their income is increasing, their living standard has increased to solid high-rise houses, gradually replacing long houses.
According to our actual investigation, not only the Ede ethnic people in the city. In Buon Ma Thuot, even remote villages in Krong Ana Ma D’Rak Krong Buk or Cu M’Gar districts… traditional long houses are gradually being replaced by grandly built houses.</ div>
Facing the risk of the traditional Ede longhouse being seriously eroded, Mr. Truong Bi wondered: “Not only in Dak Lak province, other provinces In the Central Highlands, the traditional long house of the Ede people is also shrinking significantly. It is worth mentioning that the gong-playing space of the Ede people is in the long house. If the long house is lost, the gongs of traditional festivals will be difficult to preserve.”
It is known that the authorities of Dak province Lak has chosen a number of typical villages to preserve longhouses for the purpose of tourism development such as: Ako Dhong village (Buon Ma Thuot city); M’Lieng village, Jul village (Lak district) Nieng village (Buon Don district); H’Dinh village (Cu M’gar district).
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