What is the custom in Vietnam?

This is an important custom of Vietnamese Spring Festival. As the Spring Festival approaches, Vietnamese families will go to the supermarket to buy big peach branches, take them home and insert them in the doorway or living room as family decorations during the Spring Festival.

Peach branches symbolize exorcism. In ancient China, peach wooden swords were very popular as a magic weapon to exorcise evil spirits. Today, inserting peach branches is no longer the custom of Spring Festival in China, but it has been replaced by gatekeepers to ward off evil spirits. However, Viet Nam still retains the traditional customs of ancient China. In addition to inserting peach branches, you should also keep kumquat branches on your hands, which means that your financial resources are rolling and your luck is good.

2. ancestor worship

There is also an important custom in Vietnam during the Spring Festival, that is, sweeping graves before the Spring Festival, which means inviting ancestors to go home for the New Year. As early as14th century, annals of annam recorded that people used cups and plates to worship their ancestors on New Year's Day. Sweeping graves at the end of the year in Vietnam is different from sweeping graves at Qingming in China. In Viet Nam, Tomb-Sweeping Day is not recorded as a festival, but only as an additional festival of the Cold Food Festival.

Some scholars have studied that the reason why Vietnam did not follow the custom of ancestor worship in the Qingming period of the Central Plains Dynasty has a lot to do with its climate and environment. Vietnam is located in the subtropical zone. During the Spring Festival, the dry and hot winds are strong and it is easy to catch fire. However, just after the rainy season at the end of the year, the vegetation is rich. After pulling out its roots, weeds can be prevented from invading the cemetery.

Third, mining Lu also

This is a very important custom during the Spring Festival in Vietnam. It is actually "green". Because these two words have the same pronunciation in Vietnam, they are called "green". The custom of picking green leaves is to take the broken branches with green leaves home.

In ancient China, picking green was an important activity of people, and later it spread to Viet Nam. But today, there is no custom of picking green in most parts of China, but Viet Nam has preserved it to this day. Because green is homophonic with Lu, it means that it is very important to pick green leaves on New Year's Eve in the new year.

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1, Vietnamese marriage customs

In some barbarian tribes in northern Vietnam, there is a custom of "thanking" old lovers when they get married. Brides often have an old lover before marriage. If you are sure to get engaged to someone, you must break up with other lovers. According to the traditional custom, the bride doesn't stay in the groom's bridal chamber on her wedding night, but goes to see her old lover for the last night to show her gratitude.

2. Vietnam Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival in Vietnam is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also known as Zhengyang Festival. There is a custom of eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, and there is also a custom of expelling insects on the Dragon Boat Festival. On the morning of the festival, parents prepare sour food and fruits such as glutinous rice wine, glutinous rice with yellow ginger, peaches, plums and lemons for their children.

In some areas in the south, children are allowed to eat watermelons, mangoes, boiled eggs and coconut juice, while adults drink realgar, which is applied to children's heads, foreheads, chests and navel to repel insects. Collecting herbs during the Dragon Boat Festival is an essential activity. People think that "Dragon Boat Festival Herbs" are the most effective, and many markets have drug monopoly booths.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Vietnamese Lunar New Year