Guide rituals to worship on New Year's Eve

New Year's Eve offering is an indispensable rite in every night of 30 Lunar New Year. Every family wants to prepare well, full of rituals during the New Year's Eve to see the old year and welcome the new year.

Ceremony to eliminate death (New Year's Eve)

Exclusion is the last hour of the old year that is about to start over the new year. At this time, the people of Vietnam followed the custom of exorcism.The meaning of this exorcism is to remove all the bad things of the old year coming to welcome the good of the coming year. The exorcism ceremony is also a ceremony to "subjugate demons" , hence the word " exorcism " . The exorcism ceremony is celebrated at the time of New Year's Eve so it is also called the New Year's Eve.

Who in the New Year's Eve?

We believe that every year a man takes care of the human affairs, and the gods hand over the work to the other god, so he sacrifices to see the old man and welcome him.The New Year's Eve ceremony is offered outside because the old people visualized in the moment the former king of the house handed over the work to the new monarch who always had troops, the army came full of air and hurried (but my naked eyes visible), even the military officer has not yet eaten anything.

In those minutes, the families brought away chicken, fruit cakes, fruits and all the food that had been cooled to the outdoors, with the sincere gratitude for the heavenly man who had governed him in the old year and welcomed the new heavenly people to do the task. next year govern the world. Because of the handover and takeover of the work so urgently, you cannot go into the house and eat the dishes, you can only stop for a few seconds to eat hastily or bring them with you, even just witnessing the sincerity of the host.

Fixing ceremony of the New Year's Eve offering

People offer redundancy at the communal houses, shrines, and writings in the neighborhood as well as in the houses. The New Year's altar is set in the middle of the sky. A incense burner is listed, on a incense burner, two oil lamps or two candles.

New Year's offerings include:

1. The pig or the chicken
2. Chung cake
3. Candy jam
4. Betel and areca
5. fruit
6. Wine water
7. Votive, sometimes there is an extra hat of Dai Vuong.

However, in the traditional culture of Vietnamese people, they still use roosters to offer. Vietnamese people believe that roosters are symbols of the five virtues: Van, martial, brave, human, and faith. The red rose on the chicken's mouth is a symbol of the sun.

By the time of the minus, the bell rang, the owner took the ceremony, then all the next people followed, sincerely prayed to the new king to control the patience for a lucky year. The pagodas also offer new year's offerings, but the offerings are vegetarian. Today, in the houses, people still worship with the reverence as before, but the altar is more convenient, usually placed in the yard or in front of the house.

Why Eve worship outdoors?

Every ethnic group considers the New Year's Eve to be sacred. Specific conceptions: Every year, Heaven changes the whole army of overseers under the leadership, headed by a wise man like the governor. In every year, when the authority is good and smart and incorruptible, it is possible to downgrade the world by: being able to enjoy the seasons, less natural disasters, no war, disease . On the contrary, encountering him lazy, inferior, greedy then the world suffers everything.

Because of the handover and takeover of the work so urgently, you cannot go into the house and eat the dishes, you can only stop for a few seconds to eat hastily or bring them with you, even just witnessing the sincerity of the host. .

Ceremony to worship the Earth

After the New Year's Eve offering, the homeowners also took the vow of Earth, ie the god who ruled in the house. The offerings are similar to the Eve's offerings.

The custom in the night except for president

After making the New Year's Eve ceremony, our people have their own custom that so far, from rural to urban areas, there are still many respected people.

1. Temple, communal and temple ceremonies : When the New Year's Eve ceremony is finished, people pull together to worship families, pagodas, shrines, and temples to pray and pray for good luck and pray for Buddha and God to maintain for themselves and their families. and on this occasion people often ask for cards at the beginning of the year.
2. Cocoon direction: When going to the ceremony, people are timid and outgoing, go in the right direction on time to get lucky all year round.

1. Screaming: Going to communal houses, pagodas, shrines and temples, people continue to pick before the door of the house, the gate of a tree called branches and branches bears the meaning of "taking the fortune" of Heaven and Earth Buddha. This bud is carried back to the altar until the remains are dry.
2. Huong loc : There are many people instead of picking branches and buds to ask for fortune at the communal houses, temples, pagodas and shrines by burning a handful of incense, standing in front of the altar, then bringing that incense to plug and scent the altar of your house. .The fire that symbolizes prosperity is taken from the place of worship, that is, asking the Buddha, the Holy Blessed One to be prospered year-round.
3. Home: Often people pick up an "easy" person in the family who left before the exclusion, then after the dedication ceremony, ask for incense or pick up at the temple's temple. When I came back, I went to the new year and this person would "storm"my family, bring the good all year round to my family.If there is no easy family member, people have to ask other people for good so that the day before the first day comes, they will come to the house before the guests come to the new year, so that this person can bring easy luck.

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