Instructions on how to present the New Year's Eve offerings

Tet is coming, warm spring air spreads everywhere. This is also the time when houses are preparing to repair and purchase necessary items to wait for the new year. Check out the presentation of the tray of the New Year's Eve.

Preparing for the altar

Vietnamese families often have an ancestor altar and grandparents (or Mr. Vai). Depending on the house, how to decorate and arrange different altars. The altar, the altar is a place of remembrance, a miniature world of the deceased. Two lamps symbolize the sun, moon and incense. Two incense bowls to be symmetrical, behind the two lamps are usually two branches of paper daisies, with many small flowers surrounding large cotton. There are also houses that plug "golden leaf branches" (a piece of code) with the wish to make gold and silver fruits and trade profits 5 or 10 times higher than the previous year.

In the middle there is a "cosmic" axis, which is an agarwood piece in a meandering form, rising in the incense bowl. Many families alternate between lamps and incense are two plates to place festive fruits called five fruits tray (depending on each region there are variations of fruits, but each kind of fruit has its meaning), in front of the bowl incense to a bowl of clear water, as sacred water. Two sugarcane placed on either side of the altar were to put tools against sticks to descendants, leading ancestral spirits from heaven to the lower world .

Outdoor Eve Eve

According to the traditional custom, the New Year's Eve was organized to welcome the Angels (12 Commanders). At that time, they went to visit the lower realm, very quickly could not keep up to the inside of the house, so the offerings were often placed outside the main door of each house. At the end of a year, the former (行 遣) Administrator who has ruled the World in the old year will hand over the job to the new Commander who will rule the World in the new year. Every year there is a taste, after 12 years, the Action will rotate again. Twelve Pilgrims and Judges include:

1. Year of the Rat: Chu Vương Hành Hành, Thiên On Hành Binh chi Thần, Lý Cao Phán quan.
2. Year of the Ox: Trieu Vuong Hanh Luat, The Hexagon of the Operation of the Genus of God, Khuc Cao Pho Quan.
3. Year of the Tiger: Wei Wang Action, Moc Tinh Chi Than, Pepper Cao Quan.
4. Year of the Cat: Trinh Vuong Hanh Khiem, Thach Tinh chi Than, Lieu Cao Phen quan.
5. Year of the Dragon: Department of the King of Action, Fire Crystal, Spirit of Express.
6. Year of the Snake: Ngo Vuong Hanh Khiem, Thien Hai chi Than, Promise Cao Phan Quan.
7. Year of the Horse: Tan Vuong Hanh Luat, Thien Hao chi Than, Nhan Cao Quan Quan.
8. Year of the Goat: Song of the King of Command, Five Paths of Genie, Lam Cao Quan of Quan.
9. Year of the Body: Qi Wang Hanh Control, Five Mieu Chi Than, Song Cao Phán quan.
10. Year of the Rooster: Lu Wang Hanh Hanh, Five Music chi Than, Cu Cao Cao Quan Quan.
11. Year of the Dog: Viet Vuong Hanh Tac, Thien Ba chi Than, Thanh Pho Quan Quan.
12. Year of the Pig: Luu Vuong Hanh Lanh, Ngu On chi Than, Nguyen Cao Phan quan.

Rituals are arranged with respect to see the God who has governed the old year back to Heaven and welcomes newcomers to take care of the Lower World next year. Because the handover and takeover of the work are so urgent, you can only eat in a hurry or bring it with you, even just witnessing the sincerity of the host. There is a incense burner, two oil lamps or two candles on the incense. The offerings include: the pig or chicken, the banh chung, the jam, the betel nut, the fruit, the wine and the votive gold. 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.

New Year Eve in the house

The New Year's Eve offering is an ancestor-worshiping ceremony at the time of the new eve to come, in order to ask the Ancestors to bless their families to encounter good things in the coming year. Rituals include salty dishes on New Year which are processed purely and solemnly, including:

Salty rice : banh chung; Spring rolls - spring rolls; Xac gac; Chicken; Sticky green beans; Other salty dishes depend on the needs of the family.

Sweet and vegetarian pans: incense, flowers, candle lights; Candy; Jam; Wine and other drinks.

When worshiping New Year's Eve in the house, all family members stood solemnly in front of the altar, praying to the ancestors to ask for the blessings of the new home, praying for prosperity and good health. Before praying to the ancestors to invite the ancestors to eat Tet with the descendants of the descendants, the earthly owners, ie the gods in the house (usually the ancestor altar in the middle, the Earth altar on the left. ) to ask permission for ancestors to eat Tet.

Trays for worshiping in 3 regions:

In the North : Traditional Tet trays are usually calculated according to bowls and plates: 4 bowls, 4 plates, large trays, 6 bowls, 6 discs or 8 bowls, 8 plates .

1. Bowls include: Bowl of pork sausage with bamboo shoots, ball bowl to cook, bowl of vermicelli to cook chicken, bowl to grow.
2. Discs include: Sticky rice / banh chung, boiled chicken plate, frozen meat plate, silk roll, fried pork roll, add mannequin plate and pickled pickle plate. New year chicken must be made from castrated rooster chicken from the afternoon of 30th or chicken.

Central region: The tray has both banh chung, banh tet and many processed dishes, including all ingredients to have a 'compelling' meal including: dish of Hue dish, Hue silk plate, meat plate, chicken plate squeeze laksa leaves, Hue rolls, boiled pork chops, sour prices, dried bamboo shoots, Hue vermicelli bowls, fried fish dishes, or ram dishes .

In many places, people also do the dishes: lotus leaf salad, stomach salad, harrow gears or special dishes lettuce beef ribs, shrimp rolls, spring rolls . to offer to the ancestors of Tet holiday.

Southern: Tet holiday often has many delicacies due to hot weather. The deck has tarts with a dish of pickled radish; cooked bamboo shoots (using fresh bamboo shoots instead of dried bamboo shoots), adding miscellaneous soup bowls with stuffing of meat and meat stock (pork, eggs with coconut water); Boiled pork plate, meat salad dish, spring rolls, spring rolls, melon plate, tubers.