Palanquin from the Khuc Thuy dinh

I had to crawl under the dust cover to take a look at this in the dinh at Khuc Thuy. It is only pulled out once every two years for the Hoi Lanh (village festival), for which the villagers all dress up in old-fashioned costume and participate in a parade down the main road. I have no idea what or whom is or was carried in this big sedan chair - maybe they leave it empty these days because it looks heavy enough on its own. Again, however, the fact that they have a piece of equipment as fine as this testifies to the former prosperity of the village. I've visited quite a few dinh over the years, but I don't recall anything like this one. Mostly they seem much more crudely decorated, not to mention dusty and decrepit.