VietNamNet Bridge – On Monday morning, many people in Hanoi went to lakes, ponds and the Red River to throw carp on the Day of the Kitchen Gods. People also threw ash, plastic bags and garbage into the lakes. Zing/VNN … [Read more...] about Photos: People release carps and rubbish in lakes
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Vietnamese see the Kitchen God off
Vietnamese families offered feasts, burnt votive paper and released carps to see the Kitchen God off to the heaven in the morning of January 23. Purchasing votive products for the Kitchen God. Votive products are indispensable. People also purchase chicken for the feast. This family, in Long Bien district, Hanoi, is preparing the feast for the Kitchen God. People release carps to lakes and rivers. Volunteers collect plastic bags discharged by those who release carps. Carps in the Red River, Hanoi. Burning paper-made clothes for the Kitchen God. Lakes and rivers are polluted by plastic bags after the Kitchen God Day: Many families in Saigon use a new service, which appears this year: hiring men who disguise as the good fortune deities to perform worshipping rituals to the Kitchen God. Burning votive paper for the Kitchen God. PV … [Read more...] about Vietnamese see the Kitchen God off
Vietnamese people pay respect to the Kitchen God
(Cinet)- Every Lunar year, on December 23rd, Vietnamese people worship Ong Tao (the Kitchen God) and set free carps to see him off to the Heavenly Palace. According to a traditional belief, the god on this day straddles a carp to fly to heaven to report on family affairs to the Jade Emperor. The Kitchen God is believed that on the twenty third day of the twelfth lunar month, just before Chinese New Year he returns to Heaven to report the activities of every household over the past year to the Jade Emperor (Yu Huang). The Jade Emperor, emperor of the heavens, either rewards or punishes a family based on Zao Jun's yearly report. The festival aims at making full use of the sticky cake to prevent the Kitchen God from speaking bad words of the family in Heaven by sticking his mouth. Of course, it seems to be quite a tacit agreement between the Kitchen God and his prayers. This activity is part of the Tet flower festival to honor craft villages and high-quality agricultural products of … [Read more...] about Vietnamese people pay respect to the Kitchen God
Gold firms gear up for God of Wealth Day
Gold firms gear up for God of Wealth Day Bao Uyen By Bao Uyen - The Saigon Times Daily HCMC – Gold trading companies and shops have prepared multiple products to meet demand for gold and jewelry on the God of Wealth Day that falls on February 17, the tenth day of the first lunar month. Many Vietnamese people buy gold on the God of Wealth Day in the hopes that they would have good luck and prosperity in the new year. Nguyen Thi Cuc, deputy general director of Phu Nhuan Jewelry Co. (PNJ), said a large number of customers want to buy small gold bars or gold jewelry, so the company has produced nearly 100,000 products to meet their demand. Cuc said the company has doubled the volume of products compared to the same day of 2015. Apart form gold pieces carved with Tai (money) and Loc (luck) letters, PNJ will offer a product line of one oval pendants and gold bars with a monkey face symbolizing the Year of the Monkey. Saigon Jewelry Holding Co. (SJC) has prepared an ample supply … [Read more...] about Gold firms gear up for God of Wealth Day
Tatrai festival of the Co Tu ethnic people starts
(Cinet)- The Tatrai festival of Co Tu ethnic minority will organize in Dong Giang District, Quang Nam Province in the fourth lunar month. Villages of Co Tu ethnic minority people in Ta Bhing village, Nam Giang district, Quang Nam province, have become a popular tourist destination in recent years. A peaceful people, the Cotu of Vietnam is known as the “People of the Forest” because of their strong affinity with nature. Living sustainably and self-sufficiently in the woodland areas of Central Vietnam, the Cotu is among the few tribal groups within Vietnam who remain untarnished by development and commercialtourism. They embrace centuries-old traditions and have preservedtheir own language, ceremonial worship, cultural dress and unique means of survival. The festival comprises a number of traditional activities of Co Tu people, including offering live buffalos to God and their ancestors, dancing, and enjoying traditional food and drinks such as ruou can (wine stored in a big … [Read more...] about Tatrai festival of the Co Tu ethnic people starts