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Tet Holiday In Viet Nam
Tet Holiday In Viet Nam
Tet holiday is the biggest festival in Vietnam. TET, Vietnamese New Year, occurs somewhere in the last ten days of January or the first twenty days of February, nearly halfway between winter solstice and spring equinox. Tet is the Festival of thanksgiving, purity and renewal.
Vietnamese New Year Customs:
Tet Holiday Decoration
1. Clean and decorate the house:
Before the Tet Holiday, people usually clean and decorate the house, especially the kitchen have to clean before 23rd, December of lunar month. This is the ritual in Viet Nam and people believe that cleaning the house will get rid of the bad fortunes associated with the old year. Some people would paint their house and decorate with festive items.
2. Getting new clothes
In Viet nam, the children is one of the most important roles to make Tet is more exciting. Their parents often buy or sew new clothes for children a month prior The New year. However, the children cannot wear new clothes before the first day of the New Year and the children want to keep their new clothes on the New Year Eve and the first day of New Year.
3. Apricot, Peach flower and Kumquat trees.
On Tet Holiday, in each family are decorated by flower such as Apricot, Peach flower and Kumquat Tree. In the north they use Apricot Flower and in the south use Peach flower, because Apricot – Hoa Mai are adaptable to hot weather from the south and Peach flower – Hoa Đào are adaptable to are the warm pink of the peach blossoms that match well with the dry, cold weather from the North. Tet is not Tet if there is no sight of Hoa Mai (south) or Hoa Dao (north) in every home.
4. The Five Fruits
One thing is very important on the ancestor’s altar in every Vietnamese home during Tet Holiday, this is Five Fruits. Following the views of Vietnamese people they believed that five fruits are symbolic for five basic elements: metal, wood, water, fire and earth. The plate of fruits on the family altar at New Year is one of several ways to represent this concept. The plate of fruits also represents the desire for good crops and prosperity.
5. Parallels sentences and Traditional Painting
Another thing Vietnamese people use to decorate on Tet Holiday Parallels sentences and Dong Ho Painting, Parallels sentences is often hung up on honor place - the both side of ancestor’s altar
Here is two pair of Parallels Sentences:
"Fat meat, pickled onions, red parallel sentences
New Year pole, strings of firecrackers, green Chung cake."
And Dong Ho painting, one kind of folk painting is used to decorate home on New Year festival.
Vietnamese New Year Foods
1. Banh Chung – Square Cake
One of the most important traditional foods on Tet Holiday is Banh Chung – Square Cake or sticky Rice Cake. Chung Cake is made by sticky rice, green bean, pork meat, pepper and all ingredients are wrapped by special leaf which calls “Dong”. After that, it is boiled in big pot for 12 hours and the children often play around warm fires. It is also the time for parents to tell their children folklore stories about Chung cake and ancestor – Hung Vuong King.
Viet Namese New Year Ceremony and Rituals
1. Ong Cong, Ong Tao ( The kitchen Gods) Ceremony
In the Custom of Vietnamese people, on 23rd, December, Each family offers “ Ong Cong-Ong Tao” ceremony to go up to Heaven palace. He goes to heaven to report to Jade Emperor everything about the people have done in this year. And he goes to Heaven palace by carp fish; this is the reason why they need Carp Fish on their offer.
2. Eve New year
New Year Eve is called “Giao Thua”, it is the moment of seeing the old year and make plan for the new year. And Giao Thua is the time Ong Cong,Ong Tao come back to Earth after report to Jade Emperor and the family have to make the offer to well come him.
3. “ Li Xi “ – Lucky money
In the new year of Vietnamese people often give lucky money
Tet holiday is the biggest festival in Vietnam. TET, Vietnamese New Year, occurs somewhere in the last ten days of January or the first twenty days of February, nearly halfway between winter solstice and spring equinox. Tet is the Festival of thanksgiving, purity and renewal.
Vietnamese New Year Customs:
Tet Holiday Decoration
1. Clean and decorate the house:
Before the Tet Holiday, people usually clean and decorate the house, especially the kitchen have to clean before 23rd, December of lunar month. This is the ritual in Viet Nam and people believe that cleaning the house will get rid of the bad fortunes associated with the old year. Some people would paint their house and decorate with festive items.
2. Getting new clothes
In Viet nam, the children is one of the most important roles to make Tet is more exciting. Their parents often buy or sew new clothes for children a month prior The New year. However, the children cannot wear new clothes before the first day of the New Year and the children want to keep their new clothes on the New Year Eve and the first day of New Year.
3. Apricot, Peach flower and Kumquat trees.
On Tet Holiday, in each family are decorated by flower such as Apricot, Peach flower and Kumquat Tree. In the north they use Apricot Flower and in the south use Peach flower, because Apricot – Hoa Mai are adaptable to hot weather from the south and Peach flower – Hoa Đào are adaptable to are the warm pink of the peach blossoms that match well with the dry, cold weather from the North. Tet is not Tet if there is no sight of Hoa Mai (south) or Hoa Dao (north) in every home.
4. The Five Fruits
One thing is very important on the ancestor’s altar in every Vietnamese home during Tet Holiday, this is Five Fruits. Following the views of Vietnamese people they believed that five fruits are symbolic for five basic elements: metal, wood, water, fire and earth. The plate of fruits on the family altar at New Year is one of several ways to represent this concept. The plate of fruits also represents the desire for good crops and prosperity.
5. Parallels sentences and Traditional Painting
Another thing Vietnamese people use to decorate on Tet Holiday Parallels sentences and Dong Ho Painting, Parallels sentences is often hung up on honor place - the both side of ancestor’s altar
Here is two pair of Parallels Sentences:
"Fat meat, pickled onions, red parallel sentences
New Year pole, strings of firecrackers, green Chung cake."
And Dong Ho painting, one kind of folk painting is used to decorate home on New Year festival.
Vietnamese New Year Foods
1. Banh Chung – Square Cake
One of the most important traditional foods on Tet Holiday is Banh Chung – Square Cake or sticky Rice Cake. Chung Cake is made by sticky rice, green bean, pork meat, pepper and all ingredients are wrapped by special leaf which calls “Dong”. After that, it is boiled in big pot for 12 hours and the children often play around warm fires. It is also the time for parents to tell their children folklore stories about Chung cake and ancestor – Hung Vuong King.
Viet Namese New Year Ceremony and Rituals
1. Ong Cong, Ong Tao ( The kitchen Gods) Ceremony
In the Custom of Vietnamese people, on 23rd, December, Each family offers “ Ong Cong-Ong Tao” ceremony to go up to Heaven palace. He goes to heaven to report to Jade Emperor everything about the people have done in this year. And he goes to Heaven palace by carp fish; this is the reason why they need Carp Fish on their offer.
2. Eve New year
New Year Eve is called “Giao Thua”, it is the moment of seeing the old year and make plan for the new year. And Giao Thua is the time Ong Cong,Ong Tao come back to Earth after report to Jade Emperor and the family have to make the offer to well come him.
3. “ Li Xi “ – Lucky money
In the new year of Vietnamese people often give lucky money
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