Tiet Thanh Minh arrives 60 days after Lap Spring, 105 days after the Winter solstice day. The first day of this period is called Tet Thanh Minh. Thanh Minh Tet in 2019 falls on the 5th of April of the solar calendar (1/3 of the lunar calendar). Vietnamese people often worship Tet Thanh Minh at the family and ancestors’ grave, so it is necessary to prepare 2 ceremonies. Thanh Minh worshiping ceremony at the tomb Depending on the family, the Thanh Minh Tet ceremony at the ancestor’s grave can be a vegetarian or salty ceremony. The offerings include: incense, lamp, tea, fruit, wine, clear water, betel nut and gold coins. Vegetarian tray includes: Sticky rice, banana cake, fruit cake, water bottle, salted rice, burns, butter, honey cup. The salty tray in addition to the above has added meat wine, sausage, boiled chicken or braised pork rolls. If there are many incense bowls, each bowl must be lit, while the offerings placed on the table can be shared. When going to graves, the main job is to repair the tombs to be clean, re-fill the tombs for fullness, remove weeds and wild trees overgrown the tomb, then put the offerings to Tet Thanh Minh. Finished offering, waiting for the incense to burn about 2/3, then the ceremony to give thanks, turn gold and ask for fortune to go home to celebrate the family and ancestors at home. If it is written down on paper, then after reading it, it will also bring goods. When going to the gravesite, pay attention to walking gently, carefully, do not mess up and swirl rubble soil to avoid affecting the surrounding environment and landscape. Do not step on another’s tomb or kick offerings on someone else’s tomb. If there are young children, pay attention to the careful supervision of them. tet Thanh Minh New Year worshiping ceremony at home The offering at home does not require too fussy, depending on the conditions of each family or local customs and habits to prepare. You can make a tray to worship Thanh Minh Tet with a full range of savory dishes such as sticky rice, boiled chicken, sausages, bamboo shoots soup, vermicelli, adding a stir-fried plate … and some other offerings such as fruit, fresh flowers, betel nut, votive … Buddhist families prepare vegetarian offerings. Some families do not cook Tet Thanh Minh offerings, only burn incense with fresh flowers and fruits, tea, candies … to pay tribute to ancestors. Before worshiping, it is necessary to clean the house to be tidy and clean, to clean the ancestral altar. The worshiper must wear clean, neat clothes and put on incense, bow to the ancestors and read vows. When a week of incense burns out, the family can turn gold and ask for the enjoyment of the fortune.

Let me sleep well Let me go to the market to buy betel lime Buying lime at Quan and Cau markets Buy Bat Nhi betel nut, buy betel Hoi An Only to buy betel and areca to form the betel and areca dish of the women, but we have to go to three places to go to Quan market, Cau market to buy quickly, go through Bat Nhi Dien Ban to buy areca and then turn back to Hoi An to have green betel. So I just told about the long thunderstorm of the boat market and the demand for shopping of the Vietnamese people from the past so far is difficult to change. Going to the countryside market means right from the moment you enter the market gate, a few baskets with a few vegetables cut from the garden, a few dozen scrambled eggs in a nest, a little green green beans, a bit of smooth bitter vegetables has been the beginning of the idea of ​​buying. sell. Because those are the home grown items, or now say homemade food, each with a little and less copies. The country pork shopkeeper smiled brightly Buying these items, buyers like catching gifts, like being given favorite gifts. The bitter melon fruit, like it is not big enough, or the pickled fruit of the pass, promises the honestly grown vegetables of the mother in the countryside. That is the beginning of the market, going to the end of the market still does not stop choosing food, because everything is needed for the menu on the table even though it is too long. Hoi An chili sauce hot pot, soft high-rise cake, brown rice paper sandwiches but the section with only five fingers spread out, why not buy, simply because it is very compact, easy to carry, easy to carry … How many items in the idea are lurking around. Steamed fish, a special product found in remote markets The countryside market is a market in which you can freely fly with a variety of dishes and drinks as you wish. The most favorite is the markets near the river wharf. Hoi An is at the beginning of the market as the old town at the end of the river market, fresh and green seafood that you want, whatever you want, shrimp and fish, you like to buy. Going down from the city, Thanh Ha market likes, Thanh Ha Bridge is like an arc embracing the fresh river market in the countryside. The original capital for walking around the countryside is deeply rooted in every country. Coming to the country, in addition to the hobby of shopping at the supermarket often, going to farmer’s markets, the fair in the warm sunny season is also open regularly. Wild honey and grilled beeswax were found at the market in Laos – Bolaven plateau, southern Laos Residents in the area are very eager to go shopping at the farmers’ markets because there are many strange, local and local products that are very high, unlike anywhere else. Homemade cakes with hand-made yeast dough recipes, honey bottles that only look at them, I think of the grasslands of immense flowers. The warm, fresh milk, as if brought from the field out there with the lovely girls in scarf … The countryside market is not only associated with wet rice residents. The original nature in each person has a peasant bloodline that exists despite the world 5.0 or 10.0 …

Floating cake, vegetarian cake According to Trinh Sinh culture researcher, the number of standard vegetarian cakes, floating cakes in the offering tray is 5 or 3 bowls of floating cakes, 3 or 5 bowls of vegetarian cakes. Floating cakes, vegetarian cakes, but symbolizing cold foods. That is the product from the bumper rice season to the ancestors as well as a prayer for good weather. Photo: VietNamNet Readers. The floating cake is made of glutinous rice dough and kneaded with water, filled with sugar. The cake is finished, placed in a pot of boiling water. The cake sinks and floats, picked out and soaked in boiled water, let it cool for hunting again, then picked it out on a plate. Floating cake plate is sprinkled with some fragrant roasted white sesame seeds. The vegetarian cake is also made of glutinous rice flour, kneaded with water and filled with, but filled with cooked green beans. The peas to make the cake must also be the same as the pepper beans, small, fragrant, steamed until finely pounded, mixed with white diameter. Vegetarian cake is placed in a bowl, filled with a little sugar tea mixed with melon flour or tapioca flour marinated with grapefruit flowers. Besides, on this day, many family members gather together to knead the dough and make cakes to show the spirit of solidarity and mutual support. Perfume, flowers, betel and areca In the worshiping ceremony, no matter how big or small, Vietnamese people are indispensable to compress incense, fresh flowers and betel and areca on the altar. Therefore, on the real Korean New Year, the worshiping tray will also be indispensable for these things. Note, the flowers used to worship must be fresh flowers. Glass of clean water In every Buddha or ancestor worshiping ceremony, a glass of clean water is indispensable on the altar. Water is a manifestation of the homeowner’s mind. Look at the glass of water to know: “Is my mind as pure as water?” Fruit tray In addition to the above foods, families can buy a plate of fresh fruit with about 5 kinds of fruit. Depending on the season, the homeowner chooses 5 fruits of different colors such as blue, red, yellow, purple … to represent the five elements, offering to the ancestors to show filial piety and wish good things. In addition, on this holiday, families do not need to prepare “high tray, full deck”, draw costly procedures but only need to be sincere, offer floating cakes, vegetarian meals to the altar of ancestors and grandparents, pray for the good and peaceful things in life. It could also be simpler, the family just set up a sincere plate of fresh fruit in the real Korean New Year ceremony.

Floating cakes, vegetarian cakes are offered to the ancestors worshiping committee on the real Korean New Year. Photo: Minh An Floating cake made small balls, outside white, in the red sugar filling, boiled in a pot of boiling water, when the cake floats on the surface, take out the water. And the vegetarian cake is rounded, flat, without filling, put on a small plate, poured sugar water on top. Place on a plate, let it cool, burn incense. Folk conception is that the number of plates, bowls of drifting cakes, and vegetarian cakes to offer is always 5 or 3. People often burn incense as 1-3 or 5 compress incense, not even light. Besides, in the ceremony, no matter how big or small, the Vietnamese people’s worship tray has fresh flowers and betel and areca, and 3 cups of water. On the ancestor altar, depending on the season, depending on the conditions of each house, families also buy 5 more fruits with five different colors representing the five elements. An ancestor tray during the Korean New Year does not need to prepare a “full tray”, but only needs to show filial piety, sincerity and wish for good things. Today, many people also enjoy making the five-color vegetarian floating cakes to offer them to their ancestors. However, according to cultural experts, this is inconsistent with the original and meaning of the Korean holiday. Because the floating cake, the original vegetarian cake is white, the circle is full of expressing the aspiration for the good, full and pure things in life. According to folk beliefs, floating cake often has a square cut of sugar, round the outside of the shell. The yin-yang is the same as the saying ‘mother is round and square.’ The yellow green bean paste represents yin, the crust is round and white to show positive and that is the property of yin and yang harmony. It is desirable to wish for favorable, harmonious weather, as well as the summer not too hot.