13 traditional customs during the traditional Vietnamese New Year

The Lunar New Year is the most important holiday of Vietnam. On this occasion, there are many traditional traditions with profound meaning of Vietnamese people in order to pray for a prosperous, lucky, peaceful and prosperous new year. .

During Tet holidays, family members who go far away also come to reunite together, visit relatives and relatives, celebrate the age, go to the beginning of the year of luck, . Under These are beautiful traditional customs of Vietnamese people during Tet.

1. Offer Mr. Cong and Mr. Apple

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Traditionally, the 23rd day of the lunar month is the day Mr. Cong and Mr. Tao come to heaven to report everything in the house of the landlord to the Jade Emperor. Therefore, to this day, Vietnamese families will clean the kitchen, buy goldfish to worship and see Mr. Cong and Mr. Tao back to heaven.

How to trim the incense sticks (incense) only, don't worry about "breaking"

2. banh chung package

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Banh chung is a traditional dish from the Hung King's time and indispensable in Vietnamese New Year days to this day. Families often pack banh chung from the 27th, 28th and 29th of Lunar New Year, which is also a meaningful gift for relatives and friends on this occasion.

Instructions on how to pack traditional, beautiful square cakes for Tet

3. Play flowers on Tet

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Cherry in the North, Southern apricot flowers and kumquat trees are one of the trees that symbolize luck, happiness and prosperity for the family. Currently, in Vietnam, there are many other beautiful flowers that people like to buy for indoor decoration to welcome the new year such as orchids, lilies, daisies, daffodils, .

How to choose and keep cherry blossoms on Tet
How to choose to buy beautiful kumquat trees, many fortune to welcome Tet
Recipes keep fresh flowers long during Tet holiday

4. Five fruits tray

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The tray of five fruits placed on the ancestor altar is an indispensable custom in Vietnamese New Year to pray for a new year of peace, luck, happiness, peace and richness.

Five fruits tray is a fruit tray with 5 different fruits, but this cultural tradition in the North, Central and South has different characteristics. Please refer to the article How to present the five fruit tray to know the meaning of the five fruits of the three regions and how to display it specifically.

5. Clean the house

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Families in Vietnam clean, clean houses, clean things in the last days of the year with the meaning of rearranging the unstable things, erasing the bad things of the old year preparing to welcome the year. New with lots of fortune and luck.

6. Visiting ancestors

Children and grandchildren in the family will come together to visit and clean up the resting place of their ancestors and relatives. This is a common custom of Vietnamese people, expressing filial piety and respect for the births and deceased ancestors.

7. Offer all year

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Families in Vietnam often make incense tray to invite gods and family to come and celebrate with their families in the afternoon of 30 Tet and at the same time to finish an old year and prepare to welcome the new year.

Worship of the Year-end Ceremony on the 30th New Year

8. Pick up the new year

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New year's Eve is the time of transition between the new year and the old year, which is an important time when heaven and earth intersect. The ritual worship ceremony is also called the exorcism ceremony which takes place at the last minute of the year in the sense of removing all the bad things of the old year to welcome the good of the new year. New Year's Eve offering ceremony is done outside.

9. Screaming

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Bai Loc early spring is the traditional beauty of the Vietnamese New Year. Scallop is often done on New Year's Eve or early morning on the first day of the Lunar New Year to pray for good luck, and take the procession into the house.

10. Landslides

After the eve of the new year, entering the new year, who is the first person to enter the house with the new year greetings, it is the person who broke ground.

According to the concept of the Vietnamese people, the people who rushed the land in the beginning of the year are very important so families often choose people who are old, gentle, happy families, prosperous business, happy personality to storm their land. .

11. Happy New Year and happy age

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Vietnamese people have the custom of going to wish Tet and relatives on Tet holidays. Usually in the morning of a New Year, the children and grandchildren will come to bless them and celebrate their grandparents and parents. After that, the children and grandchildren were happy with their grandparents, parents and grandchildren in the new coins in the red envelopes to get lucky along with the wishes of their children and grandchildren, good education and happiness Happy in the new year. Happy money is not important in the amount of money, but it is important in the meaning.

Tet wishes 2017 humorous and witty
Happy New Year wishes, congratulate the new Year of Rooster 2017

12. Exodus

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Vietnamese people often choose beautiful hours, beautiful directions suitable for their age to leave with the hope of having good luck whenever they leave the house.

13. Going to the temple at the beginning of the year

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The custom of going to the temple during the first days of the new year is a spiritual beauty in every Vietnamese life. Going to the temple at the beginning of the year is not just to beg for a lucky new year, blessed and show your respect for the Buddha, ancestors.

I wish you a peaceful new year!

Marvin Fry

Update 24 May 2019

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