The origin and meaning of the Lunar New Year in Vietnam

Doan Ngo Tet is one of the traditional Tet holidays in Vietnam. Doan Ngo Tet festival is held on the 5th of the fifth lunar month. So on which date did the Doan Ngo Tet year 2018 fall?

The Lunar New Year Festival of 2018 is celebrated on the 5th of the fifth lunar month, which means it falls on the Monday of June 18th of the calendar.

Doan Ngo Tet is the common Tet of some countries influenced by Chinese culture. However, in Vietnam, the Lunar New Year also has different meanings.

Every year on May 5 (lunar calendar), our people organize to celebrate the Lunar New Year . New Year of the Horse is also called the New Year of the Ocean .

It is the beginning of noon (Doan: opening, Noon: midday) and the positive is the sun, being the positive air, the positive means the beginning of the positive temperament.

Origin of the Lunar New Year: It is impossible to conceive the Vietnamese New Year from China

In Vietnam, the Lunar New Year is also called by a folk name rather than a Tet kill . This is one of the traditional holidays with rich cultural connotations. Not only in Vietnam or China but also in Korea and Korea, there is also the Lunar New Year. Therefore, the Lunar New Year is actually an East Asian Tet holiday associated with the concept of the circulation of weather in the year.

China with Qu Yuan's legend

At the end of the Warring States period, there was a great master of the State Department, Qu Yuan. He is the central priest of the Department and also a famous cultural house. Legend has it that he is the author of Ly Tao poem (belonging to the Department of the Department of the word) famous in ancient Chinese culture, showing the sad mood because the country is depressed with dehydration.

Due to the disobedience of King Hoai Vuong, he was harmed by the gods, he plunged himself into the Mich La River to commit himself on the 5th of the fifth lunar month. Mourning the loyal people, every year until that day, the Chinese people used to make bread and wrap only the five colors outside (it makes the fish afraid and get lost) and swim to the middle of the river, throwing bread, taking away rice into bamboo pipes and drop into the river to worship Khuat Nguyen.

In addition, there are other legends about the origins of the Lunar New Year, many sources believe that the custom of Doan Ngo festival originated in Ha Tri in ancient times, some people said that this is the worship of ancestors. of people in the Changjiang River.

Legend of the Lunar New Year in Vietnam

On the day after the crop, farmers celebrated the harvest, but the worms pulled back the fruit and the harvested food that year. People with headache do not know how to solve this bug, suddenly there is an old man coming to claim himself to be the Double.

The offerings of the Vietnamese Lunar New Year of the Lunar New Year often include fruits, ash cake, sticky wine to kill insects.

He showed the people each house made a herd of offerings including simple ashes, fruit, then went to the front of his house to exercise. The people followed after only a moment, and the floodworm fell down. He also added: Every year on this day is very aggressive, every year on this day just follow what we have told you to cure them.

The people who were grateful for their gratitude had gone somewhere. To commemorate this, the people who set for this day were the "New Year of the Insecticide" , some called it "New Year of the Horse " because of the time of offerings in the middle of the Horse hour.

Therefore, it is not possible that the Vietnamese tradition of the Duan Lunar New Year originates from China as some people still believe in today.

Meaning of the Lunar New Year

In Vietnam, the Tet holiday is "Vietnameseized" into the day of the New Year's killing and ancestor worship. The Vietnamese also called Doan Ngo Tet as "the killing of insects" because during the transition period, transgenic and epidemic diseases are easy to arise. On this day, people have a lot of habits to prevent diseases.

Currently, in some Vietnamese villages, they still keep their old style, very important for this Tet holiday. After the Lunar New Year, perhaps "the killing of insects" is the warmest Tet holiday and there are many customs associated with the lives of the people . so the children and grandchildren, despite working far away, try to collect ranked to return.

At this time, fruits and flowers begin to bloom in a fruitful season, so fruit is an indispensable item. There are also other dishes depending on the customs of each locality.

Porridge ash is often offered in the Tet festival.

On this day, the whole village is bustling up, every house wakes up from early to prepare the offerings to the ancestors and the fruits are indispensable offerings. It is conceived that this is the time of fruit on the tree, the leaves on the branches begin to bear fruit and offer ancestors to look forward to a bumper harvest.

After the ceremony, there are the custom of killing insects. The whole family gathered to eat sour fruits, sticky wine, ash cake . to eradicate "insects", ward off all diseases .

Some customs on the New Year of the Lunar New Year

According to the rules, it is true (12 noon), people in rural areas invite each other to pick leaves. This is the time with the best positive atmosphere, now the sun shines the best sunshine of the year. The leaves that are picked up at this time have very good curative effects like the itchy skin diseases, especially gastrointestinal diseases or when it comes to colds, bring these medicinal leaves very well.

In the old days, on this day, people also continued to dye their toenails and fingernails, to observe fruit trees, to continue to store wormwood to eliminate exorcism . Those who did not know were allowed to take a little lime into the fontboard. , on the chest and navel so they don't have stomach aches or headaches. However, most of these customs have now been abolished, only to keep the leaves and continue to pick up medicinal leaves.

Sticky rice wine is also a popular dish to kill insects.

In the streets and towns, not many gardens, grass and trees, people have a tendency to buy the tobacco leaves 5. On this occasion, the traders from the countryside all bring a variety of leaves to sell. The leaves are chopped, each type is separate, the marketer chooses the favorite leaves to buy, right on the 5th day, then bring them to dry and wrap them in a family medicine cabinet, use when home Someone is sick.

Dishes on Tet holiday

According to the tradition of each region, on this day, in addition to fruits, the dishes are also different.In Hanoi and some parts of the North today, sticky wine, especially sticky rice , is indispensable. It is thought that human digestive organs often have harmful parasites and they are located deep in the abdomen so it is not always possible to kill. Only on 5/5 (lunar calendar), these parasites often rise up, people can eat food, fruit sour, acrid and especially sticky wine, can remove them.

According to folklore, sticky wine is eaten right after waking up very effectively . This wine is mostly sticky rice and the whole grain is fermented, also called "the ". People often use white glutinous rice and glutinous rice, cool and sprinkle with yeast, incubate for three days. Cooked basil is placed on a pot, inspired to drink alcohol to eat, mixed with the, create a sweet, spicy taste very pleasant. Old people and young children can eat this wine.

Most of the women in the northern regions know how to "drink sticky rice" and often take advantage of this opportunity to bring wine to Hanoi to sell, some only in one morning can sell 10 pots of cam sticky rice.

Central rice wine : Rice wine is made from traditional fermentation method. This is a dessert that helps easily digest so it has been processed by many families in the Central. Central sticky rice is usually square.

Southern sticky rice rice: In the Southern provinces, sticky rice is called rice wine. The rice is not left to be left in pieces, but it is made into balls before being incubated. Rice wine dish in the South often has water secreted and also added sugar water, very delicious if eaten with sticky rice like sticky rice in the North.

In Da Nang, the indispensable dish on the rice tray is the rice cake . Every house buys three or four dozen or more cakes.

In addition, according to the tradition of internal people, duck meat is also an indispensable thing for this holiday. In Ho Chi Minh City, roasted ducks and pigs turn on this day often rise more than normal days.