1. Sticking peach branches
It is an important custom of Lunar New Year in Vietnam. When the Lunar New Year is approaching, Vietnamese families will go to the supermarket to buy large peach branches and take them home to put them at the door or in the living room as home decoration during the Lunar New Year.
Peach branches are meant to drive away ghosts and evil spirits, and in ancient China, peach wood swords were commonly used to drive away evil spirits, but nowadays, sticking peach branches is no longer a Chinese Lunar New Year's custom and has been replaced by sticking door deities to ward off evil spirits, but Vietnam has still retained the ancient Chinese tradition well. In addition to the peach tree branches, kumquat branches should also be always available to symbolize the prosperity and good fortune.
2, ancestor worship
Vietnam's Spring Festival is also an important custom of tomb-sweeping, tomb-sweeping before the Lunar New Year means inviting ancestors to come home to celebrate the New Year, as early as in the 14th century, "Annamese Zhiliao" in the folk in the New Year's Day, "cups and plates of ancestor rituals," the Vietnamese at the end of the year to sweep the tombs, and the Chinese in the Qingming Tomb Sweeping is different. In Vietnam, the Qingming Festival is not recorded as a holiday, but only appended to the cold food festival.
Some scholars study, the reason why Vietnam did not according to the Central Kingdom Qingming ancestor worship custom, and the climate environment in which it is located has a lot to do. Vietnam is located in the subtropics, the Spring Festival is dry, hot and windy, it is very easy to catch fire, and the end of the year has just passed the rainy season, the grass and trees flourish, the roots will be pulled out to prevent weeds from infesting the cemetery.
3, Cai Lu also
Vietnam Spring Festival is very important custom, Cai Lu is actually picking "green", because the two words pronounced the same way in Vietnam, so picking green is known as Cai Lu. The custom of picking green leaves is to bring home a branch with green leaves.
In ancient China, green picking was an important activity for the people, which later spread to Vietnam. However, the custom of green picking is no longer practiced in most parts of China today, but it has been preserved in Vietnam to this day. As green is synonymous with luck, picking green means good luck in the new year, so it is very important to pick green leaves on New Year's Eve.
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1, Vietnam wedding customs
In some tribes of the barbarians in northern Vietnam, there is a kind of marriage so that the old lover first accounted for the "first night" of the "thank you" wedding customs. "Wedding customs. A bride often has an old lover before marriage. If you are sure to be engaged to a person, you have to break off relations with other lovers. According to traditional custom, the bride does not live in the wedding night groom's cave, but to find the old lover *** pillow last night, to show "thank you".
2, Vietnam Dragon Boat Festival
Vietnam's Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the Vietnamese calendar, also known as the first day of the sun. The Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of eating rice dumplings, as well as the Dragon Boat Festival insect repellent custom. Early in the morning of the festival, parents prepare glutinous rice wine, glutinous rice with yellow ginger and several kinds of sour foods and fruits such as peaches, plums and lemons for their children.
Some areas in the south let their children eat watermelon, mango, hard-boiled eggs and drink coconut milk, adults drink Xionghuang wine, and Xionghuang coated in the children's head, forehead, chest, umbilicus everywhere to expel insects. Duanwu medicine is an essential activity, people believe that "Duanwu herbal medicine" is the most effective, many markets have this medicine stalls.
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