Origin and customary meaning to celebrate the Tet holiday

Celebrating the beginning of the year (lucky money) is a custom that has been introduced to Vietnam for many generations, every time when Tet comes children or old people receive the blessings and red envelopes. symbolizing luck and health for the whole year, and the custom of celebrating the beginning of the year has become the cultural and traditional beauty bearing the Tet holiday.

Blue rice cakes, watermelon red, sentences and a nice round of red flags are the signals for Tet holiday. The custom of celebrating the beginning of the year does not know ever since but the bed has become a tradition, a habit, a traditional beauty of each of us in the beginning of the new year.

The custom of celebrating the beginning of the year

The legend tells that the lucky money of the Lunar New Year comes from China. According to legend, there is a demon who often appears on New Year's Eve, likes to rub the head of a sleeping baby and makes them cry and cry. The next day, children with headache, high fever made parents dare not sleep to watch.

There is a couple outside 50 years of age who gives birth to a boy's acne. In that New Year, there were 8 fairies walking through the house, knowing in advance that this boy would have a disaster with the demons immediately turned into 8 coins, day and night on his side. After the boy fell asleep, the couple took the red paper to pack these coins, put them on their pillows and went to sleep. In the middle of the night, the demon appeared, stretching out his hand to rub the child's head, flashed golden glows from the pillow, causing it to run away in terror.

The couple happily brought the story back to everyone. Seeing that taking money wrapped in red bags scares away demons, making children healthy and healthy so every Tet comes when people put money in red envelopes for children, also known as lucky money and it gradually becoming a money-rich custom, also known as lucky money at the beginning of the year

The meaning of custom is celebrating the first day of the year

Celebrating the age of the first day of the year is a fine cultural custom of Vietnamese people as well as many countries, with the desire to get the best luck and good things coming together on New Year's Day. Celebrating the age of the beginning of the year is not limited to three Tet days but it can even last until the 9th and the 10th days. Many of them lead to unhappiness during Tet. The red greens are often red, the Asians perceive that the red symbolizes luck, the best in the colors. Besides celebrating the early age of the year, it symbolizes fortune, the more recipients or donors prove, the more money you receive.

According to the custom of Vietnamese people on the morning of the morning, all families will gather together to eat rice and wish each other good wishes, and then go to the New Year together, first of all, their children will be happy. and gave a small gift to his grandparents and parents. After that, the children and grandchildren will be greeted by their grandparents and parents with a red envelopes, inside there will be a little money called happiness and bring joy, good luck for the whole year for everyone in first days of new Year.

Similarly when a guest comes to play on Tet occasions, if the family has a small child, the guest will not forget to celebrate the age of the host's grandchildren along with blessings, good luck at the beginning of the year, and at the same time The owner also returned the blessings of health and luck to the guests. The meaning of the lucky money is not in "money" but the wish to wish the children or eat quickly, have fun, learn to attack, and the elderly have lots of health to be able to be with their children. I have a long time.