Feng Shui Feng Phuong said Buddha statues are very sacred, so we should pay attention to taboos to avoid bringing unfortunate things to the family. You need to note the following 6 things to not plead guilty to the Buddha to welcome the peace of mind in the house: 1. Location of Buddha statue Buddha statues are not suitable for the bedroom, this will lose your dignity and affect your rest. Buddha statues must be placed in a serious place, should not be stored in cabinets or drawers. Where to place the Buddha statue, you need to choose a place that you think is the most respectful, then with the most respectful affection and choose the most appropriate time to place the Buddha statue. Buddha altars are usually placed in the living room. If the house has many floors, it is possible to place a Buddha altar on the upper floor, avoiding the projection under the toilet or under the bed. 2. Do not post mixed Buddha images It must be remembered that the Buddha altar is definitely not displayed in the direction but must be placed in the middle of the house and the altar of the grandparents should be worshiped on one side. If it is a high-rise building, you must place a Buddha statue on the top floor. At the Buddha altar, it is forbidden to leave any objects other than the vase, lampstand and fruit plate. These items need to be cleaned by care. In addition, pictures with Buddha images are absolutely not rolled up as doing so may cause headaches for those living in the family. When the eyes or fingers of the Buddha statues in the paintings are damaged, they must be repaired or redrawn. 3. When you first invite the Buddha statue to your home, you need to cover it, clear it up and put it in the right place According to folk beliefs, when you want to worship Buddha statues, the first thing is to choose a good date, good direction and before that, you have to ask someone to do the opening ceremony. Doing this ceremony is to show a sense of caution, while choosing a good date is to show the wish for a good day. More importantly, the statue of Buddha, Bodhisattva is not said to buy to worship, but to call it to call because Buddha, gods are not items to buy home. 4. If the Buddha statue is damaged, it means that it is out of conditions, you need to replace it with a new Buddha image and perform the same procedure as placing a new Buddha image. If the Buddha statue in the house is too old or has been for a long time, the landlord is not allowed to throw or throw it in a corner. If the Buddha statue is accidentally broken, it should not be brushed and thrown away, but must be wrapped in yellow paper. On the first day of the day, bring it to light in the sun to see off your Buddha statues. If you accidentally break the Buddha statue’s finger, we have to roll it up with red paper and try to install it. If the Buddha deity breaks, it should be glued with red paper. Instead, the landlord needs to buy a new Buddha statue to replace and bring the old Buddha statue to the temple or temple or can burn with gold coins. When placing the Buddha statue on the altar, under the statue, there must be a plate with red paper to show respect and solemnity to the Buddha. 5. Paper Buddha images should not be rolled up By doing so according to beliefs: will cause headaches for those living in the family. When the eyes and fingers of the Buddha statue in the painting are damaged, they must be repaired or redrawn. If they are not redrawn the same way, the people living in the house are susceptible to reciprocal disease, the damaged Buddha statue. 6. Change daily offerings All offerings on the Buddha statue’s altar, such as fruit or tea, must be changed daily. The offering table can be taken care of depending on the homeowner’s circumstances, neither cumbersome nor show-off. The Buddha deity is a sacred escape, you need to be sincere and sincere when you want to worship and pray for peace for your family. Maitreya Buddha is considered a symbol of joy, happiness and prosperity. He will alleviate all the sorrows, anger, and pains of the world towards joy and happiness. * Information in the article is for reference only.

Feng shui researcher Nguyen Xuan Cuong shares some notes when setting up the altar that families can refer to. Do not move the incense bowl to the wrong position At the end of the year, all families clean the altar to celebrate Tet. According to feng shui, should not arbitrarily move the incense bowl. If the bowl of incense is moved in a bad direction, it can even cause bad luck for the homeowner. The days bordering on the Lunar New Year are the occasion when people clean the altar and prepare to welcome the new year. Photo: Pham Thang. It should be noted, after taking out the incense, we should not hold the incense bowl to pour out the ashes. Because according to the concept of the ancients, this approach is very easy to spread talent and gossip. We should use a small spoon, scoop each spoonful of the incense to spill out. When cleaning, families should use a new towel, wipe from high to low. Wiping water is alcohol with crushed ginger branch. Fruit tray presentation The tray is an indispensable thing on the altar in every family during Tet. Around December 28 and 29, after cleaning the ancestral worship place, families began to set up a beautifully decorated five-fruit tray to place on the altar. Depending on the region, you will choose different fruits, the North usually includes bananas, oranges, Buddhas, grapefruit, peaches, persimmons, peppers … Each type represents a wish of the owner, ensuring the white color, Blue, yellow, black, pink. For the Northern people, the green banana bunch placed at the bottom represents the descendants who gather, gather, surround and protect each other. However, this type of fruit never appeared in the Southern fruit tray. They believe that bananas are associated with business failure. The conception comes from the pronunciation of the banana in the southern voice as “chewing”, which is close to “chewing”, just doing business is difficult. Many families choose to display the five-fruit tray according to feng shui with the concept of welcoming more fortune in the new year. Photo: Viet Linh. Southerners often prepare 5 kinds of fruits, namely custard apple, fig, coconut, papaya, and mango with the concept of “demand for fig, just enough to use”. Oranges and tangerines are associated with the concept of “tangerine do resignation”, which means a lot of work and hardship, so they are not displayed on Tet. Meanwhile, the Central people have an important respect to their ancestors and have almost no taboo on any kind of fruit, even in terms of flavor, color and name in the five-fruit tray. The fruit tray usually includes dragon fruit, watermelon, mango, grapefruit, grape, pineapple, apple, orange, pear, custard apple … The layout is simple, not too fussy, thereby showing some personality. the sincerity of the people here. Do not put fake flowers and fruit on the altar Many families often have the habit of displaying fake flowers on the altar because they both save money and do not have to change water. However, expert Nguyen Xuan Cuong said that plastic flowers or flashing electric lights should not be displayed on the altar. When descendants display real fruit, they will show their respect and respect to their ancestors. Fresh flowers and fruits should be used to display on the altar during Tet. Photo: Viet Linh. In addition, we should use fresh flowers to display on the altar, choose types with beautiful names, pleasant aroma. Fresh flowers should be used such as lily, yellow chrysanthemum, apricot blossom, peach blossom that is both beautiful, long-lasting, bringing the Tet atmosphere. According to traditional beliefs, some types of flowers should not be placed on the altar of Tet, such as lilies, orchids, and lilies. Also according to Professor Nguyen Xuan Cuong, in order to show respect to ancestors, homeowners are not allowed to bring wild flowers growing along the road to display on the altar.

Every year, every 3-3 of the lunar calendar, housewives begin to work in the kitchen to make vegetarian cakes to show their respect to their ancestors. Traditionally, floating cakes are white glutinous balls covered with sugar and put into a pot of boiling water, boiled until the cake is cooked, then picked out, immediately put in a pot of clean water for the cake to cool.

The traditional drifting cake is fragrant with fresh rice, white, mixed with sweet and attractive sugar. But for many years now, floating cakes not only stop at pure white, but instead are colorful cakes. Floating cakes with blue, red, purple, yellow, orange … all appear on the altar during this Korean New Year.

Not only that, housewives are really talented people, rich in imagination … from colorful floating cakes, women continue to produce floating cakes shaped like flowers, or animal image is extremely lively and funny.

A floating cake shape, beautiful animal vegetarian cake (Ms. Dang Kim Ngoc)

It can be seen that the culinary world is not merely a variety of delicious dishes, but there has never been an end to the creativity in taste and form for the dishes. Vegetarian cakes are one of the typical examples. From a traditional floating cake, simple, white, through its ingenious transformation, it has put on new colors, new shapes that anyone who sees, must love, must like.

After making floating cakes, vegetarian cakes, and doing a real Korean New Year ceremony, women share their meaningful images and achievements and spread their passion for cooking to many people all over the social network.

Every year, when going to the real Korean New Year, To Hung Giang (Hanoi) goes to the kitchen to prepare floating cakes, vegetarian cakes to worship her ancestors. This year, she also created a very beautiful cake shape, from a flower shape to a vivid and beautiful mandarin oranges shape.

Hung Giang’s flower vegetarian cake floating cake

The fruit-shaped drifters were made by Ms. Hung Giang as the real thing

Let’s see more pictures of floating cakes, vegetarian cakes of other sisters:

Floating cake, vegetarian five-color cake by Ms. Vu Thanh Hoan In the morning, she only took 1 hour to finish this tray

Attractive vegetarian cake floating cakes of Ms. Dang Viet Huong (Vinh, Nghe An)

Floating cakes of all kinds of beautiful colors, including cakes mixed with 2-3 very attractive colors of Ms. Thu Hang (Hanoi)

The cake floats the beautiful, funny animal of Dang Kim Ngoc. According to Ngoc, making the cake to float the animal is not difficult or takes time

Although she is abroad, Mrs. Men Nguyen still does not forget this traditional Korean New Year. Her floating cake is also colorful and beautiful shape

Floating cake shaped a very beautiful animal of Ms. Huyen Thu

Beautiful five-color floating cake, creating a flower shape of Ms. Hoang Minh Thuy (Hanoi)

In Hanoi, floating cakes and vegetarian cakes are available from the early morning

There are many vegetarian cakes floating in the streets of Hanoi

There are also some people who are not people who specialize in selling floating cakes, vegetarian cakes every day, but take advantage of the large frontage and available cooking space to take advantage of making vegetarian cakes to sell for profit.

At the kindergartens, the children are also organized by the school to make floating cakes and vegetarian cakes

The children enjoyed floating cakes, vegetarian cakes very enthusiastically

Drifting cakes, vegetarian cakes in the traditional form

Floating cakes, vegetarian cakes today are enriched in color

Floating cakes, vegetarian cakes on the Vietnamese New Year’s Eve

On this day, Vietnamese families often make vegetarian rice cakes to worship their ancestors, show their respect and wish for good and peaceful things in life.

Floating cake, vegetarian cake with eye-catching shapes and colors

Vietnamese vegetarian rice cakes are made from delicious glutinous rice flour with brown sugar. Glutinous rice flour is added to a mill with water to make it smooth, filtered out the flour and then molded into round, smooth white balls. The filling is chopped sugar balls. If there is no mill, the flour can be ground by machine, but the flour is still ground for the most delicious, softest flavor.

After being made, the floating cake will be dropped into a pot of boiling water on the stove. When the cake is cooked, quickly pick it up and put it in the cold water so that the cake is cool and does not stick to each other. The cake is arranged on a plate and placed on the altar to worship.

Vegetarian cakes are also made from glutinous rice flour but without filling. The cake is molded flat, then boiled like a floating cake. People will cook more sugar, add a little flour or tapioca to compare the water. That water was poured into bowls that had already been prepared with boiled vegetarian pancakes. You can also sprinkle a little more roasted peanuts for fragrant.