Vietnamese Tet customs are more interested in learning by tourists around the world than ever as the Lunar New Year is approaching. Along with the development of modern life, some traditional practices of the Lunar New Year have more or less changed to suit the habits and pace of contemporary life. Basically, all Vietnamese Tet customs are still preserved, maintained and promoted to this day. If the customs change, it is only more or less formal, but the beauty of the culture remains intact. We still see that, on the 23rd day of the 12th lunar month, families still hold a ceremony to send Mr.Cong and Mr.Tao (Kitchen God) back to heaven, clean the house to welcome Tet, arrange a tray of five fruits, and give gifts of Tet,... In general, interactive activities with the natural environment and social environment during Tet are maintained by everyone. In today's contemporary life, exchange and contact with many different cultures around the world, from which many new elements and aspects of culture appear. This reason has caused some Vietnamese Tet customs to be adjusted and changed to suit modern life. Vietnamese Tet custom of wrapping Banh Chung (Chung Cake) The most obvious example is the custom of wrapping Banh Chung on Tet. In the past, every Tet family prepared sticky rice, green beans, pork, and dong leaves to wrap and boil Banh Chung. The generation of people aged 40 and over remembers the feeling of being gathered with parents and family members as children, watching a pot of Banh Chung cooking on a wood stove. The smell of kitchen smoke, the smell of dong leaves, the smell of an old pot of coriander-scented water simmering next to the pot of Banh Chung mixed with the scent of sweet potatoes buried in charcoal,... are
Vietnamese Tet customs are more interested in learning by tourists around the world than ever as the Lunar New Year is approaching.
Along with the development of modern life, some traditional practices of the Lunar New Year have more or less changed to suit the habits and pace of contemporary life.
Basically, all Vietnamese Tet customs are still preserved, maintained and promoted to this day. If the customs change, it is only more or less formal, but the beauty of the culture remains intact.
We still see that, on the 23rd day of the 12th lunar month, families still hold a ceremony to send Mr.Cong and Mr.Tao (Kitchen God) back to heaven, clean the house to welcome Tet, arrange a tray of five fruits, and give gifts of Tet,… In general, interactive activities with the natural environment and social environment during Tet are maintained by everyone.
