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- 1 New Year’s Eve offerings is important in the culture of the Vietnamese people. So how to offer New Year’s Eve the most correct? What offerings do the New Year’s Eve offerings include? What should be noted on New Year’s Eve? Follow the following article to have a complete and thoughtful New Year’s Eve for a full new year.
New Year’s Eve offerings is important in the culture of the Vietnamese people. So how to offer New Year’s Eve the most correct? What offerings do the New Year’s Eve offerings include? What should be noted on New Year’s Eve? Follow the following article to have a complete and thoughtful New Year’s Eve for a full new year.
I. How to offer New Year’s Eve outdoors
With the way of offering New Year’s Eve outdoors, you can choose to offer a salty ceremony or a vegetarian tray. This depends on the economic situation of each person.
1. What does the offering include?
Outdoor New Year’s Eve offerings should have the following items: fresh flowers, incense/incense, votive papers, offerings of Onions, paper hats with dragon wings, salt, rice, sticky rice, boiled rooster, and fruits.
In addition, depending on the conditions of each family, the owner can add familiar dishes in the New Year’s Eve offering.
2. Full New Year’s Eve offering
- Outdoor vegetarian offerings include: flowers, votive coins, betel nut, betel nut, confectionery, lamps/candles, incense/incense 3-5 sticks, 1 cup of water, 1 cup of wine, beer/canned soft drink, and offerings to the Hanh mandarin, a paper hat with a dragonfly wing, a plate of salt, a plate of rice, and a plate of sticky rice.
- The outdoor sacrificial tray includes: 1 banh chung or 1 plate of sticky rice with gac, 1 boiled rooster, 1 plate of fruit, 1 slice of sausage, votive money, lamp/candle, betel nut, 1 plate of salt , 1 plate of rice, 1 cup of water, 1 cup of wine, 1 vase of fresh flowers, 1 hat of dragonfly wings, 3-5 incense sticks/incense.
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3. How to arrange offerings
You can place the worshiping tray in the South and East directions. The south direction represents the god of happiness and the east direction represents the god of wealth.
How to arrange the vegetarian tray
Step 1: Prepare the offering table, spread a tablecloth or a clean cloth on top.
Step 2: Arrange the ceremony tray in the following order:
- Put confectionery, sticky rice plate in the middle of the tray, then put gold coins, rice, and salt next to it.
- Wine is placed in front of the ceremony tray, beer or soft drinks are placed on the left side of the ceremony tray.
- Lights/candles are placed to the right of the altar.
- Flower vases, vows and dragonfly hats are placed next to the ceremony tray.
- Light incense/incense then put it on a tray or you can plug it into a cup of rice/salt.
How to arrange the salty ceremony
Step 1: Prepare an offering table, a tablecloth or a clean cloth.
Step 2: Arrange the ceremony tray in the following order:
- Place a plate of chicken in the center of the tray, head towards the outside of the tray, inside the chicken’s mouth to suck a red rose.
- Place the plate of banh chung next to the plate of chicken. Remember to peel off the leaves and strings but do not cut the cake (if you offer sticky rice instead of banh chung, it should also be placed in the same position).
- Place the plate of spring rolls next to the plate of banh chung. Remember to peel off the leaves, cut into circles (do not split).
- Place the fruit plate behind the chicken and banh chung plate.
- Place a plate of rice and salt next to a plate of fruit.
- Place betel nut, votive paper on the rim of the tray.
- Place water and wine in front of the ceremony tray.
- It is okay to put the dragonfly hat behind or next to the ceremony tray.
- Place the flower vase next to the ceremony tray.
- After burning incense / incense, you can plug it into a bowl of rice, a plate of sticky rice or put it under the tray.
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4. Outdoor New Year’s Eve vows
After preparing the offering tray, you will proceed to read the New Year’s Eve vows. Here is the outdoor New Year’s Eve offering from the book “Vietnamese traditional vows”.
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II. How to offer New Year’s Eve at home
New Year’s Eve worship in the house is a ceremony to worship ancestors and grandparents. Therefore, the way to worship New Year’s Eve in the house should be done according to the standards to pray for good luck and good things to the family.
1. What does the offering include?
New Year’s Eve offerings in the house include: incense, flowers, lights/candles, Tet jam cakes, five-fruit trays, sticky rice gac, banh chung, vegetarian or savory dishes.
2. Full New Year’s Eve offering
- In-house vegetarian offerings include: banh chung/banh tet, confectionery, fresh five-fruit tray, fresh flower vases, incense/incense, lamps/candles, votive coins, house New Year’s Eve offerings, hats no dragonfly wings, tea/wine, betel nut.
- In-house savory offerings include: salty food tray (boiled rooster or boiled pork leg meat, sticky rice rolls, banh chung, bamboo shoot soup cooked with bones), New Year’s Eve offerings in the house, fresh five-fruit tray, votive money , hat without wings, betel nut, Tet jam, flower vase, incense/incense, lamp/candle.
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3. How to arrange offerings
The way of offering New Year’s Eve in the house will lose its value if you do not know how to display the offering tray in a way that is customary.
Step 1: Prepare a large table, tablecloth or clean cloth to cover the table.
Step 2: Refer to how to do the following:
- Put fragrant fresh flowers, fresh five-fruit tray on the altar of worship.
- Put the incense burner in front of the altar, and put 5 teas behind.
- Place vases, lights/candles on either side.
- Cakes arranged in the center of the table.
- The costumes of the family members are placed around the altar.
- Prepare decent clothes, pour tea and wine to pray.
- Then read the prayer.
- After the incense/incense burns more than ½ tree, you conduct the votive ceremony, the paper clothes of the gods are also burned.
4. New Year’s Eve vows in the house
After preparing the New Year’s Eve tray in the house, the homeowner needs to read the vows to invite ancestors and grandparents and pray for good luck and good things to come. The following is a vowing text taken from the book “Traditional vows of the Vietnamese people”.
III. Frequently asked questions about New Year’s Eve offerings
1. Should I offer New Year’s Eve in the yard or in the house first?
According to folk beliefs, at the time of transition between the old year and the new year, it is advisable to perform the outdoor New Year’s Eve offering first and then the indoor offering. This has the same meaning as “welcome the new man, see off the nine”, see off the old mandarin, welcome the new mandarin.
2. Do you need to worship New Year’s Eve in the yard in an apartment building?
If the apartment space is narrow and lack of garden land, the homeowner only needs to offer New Year’s Eve in the house. If you want to worship on New Year’s Eve outdoors, you should go down to the common yard of the apartment, not on the floor or in front of the house.
3. What time should New Year’s Eve offerings be made?
Usually, the New Year’s Eve worshiping ceremony will start from 11 pm to 1 am (Rat time) of the last day of the year. Some years will have 30 New Year’s Day or some years will only have 29 Tet. This transitional moment is the most standard and reasonable time to conduct the worshiping ceremony. At this time, the family should arrange the way to worship the New Year’s Eve outdoors first, then come to worship in the house later.
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IV. Taboo things not to do on New Year’s Eve
Grandparents have a saying that “There is worship, there is holiness, there is abstinence, there is good”, New Year’s Eve is an important and sacred time of the year. So on this special occasion, in addition to knowing how to properly worship New Year’s Eve, you need to be careful not to commit taboos to have a peaceful and lucky new year.
- Do not say bad words
In the New Year moment, grandparents in the past were very abstain from negative words such as “no”, “no need”, or words that show shortages and declines such as “lack”, “all”.
For example, if at a family meal, when someone offers food and you don’t want to receive it, use the words “I have too much” or “I am full” instead of saying ” I don’t need it”.
In addition, words that imply bad luck such as loss, loss, illness must also abstain from being mentioned.
- Do not argue with anyone
New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Eve, at least the first 3 days of the year, family members should avoid raising their voices to each other. Or the gatherings of friends should not cause fights, quarrels to lose the peace.
Moreover, the first day of the year is the time when you should limit swearing because these are bad words, showing impulsiveness and hot temper. Use cheerful and polite words in any situation.
- Do not drop objects, cause loud noises to startle
The ancients had the notion that dropping things on New Year’s Day or New Year’s Eve would be a bad omen. Because words like “broken” “dumped” “broken” refer to separation, bereavement. Bad things, bad luck will cling to people, meaning “breaking luck”.
- Do not eat white porridge
New Year’s Eve celebrations, especially the first day of the Lunar New Year, are also known as the day “all gods gather”. Therefore, eating delicious, solemn and full dishes is also a way to show respect to the gods and ancestors.
In addition, according to the old concept, only the poor, without wealth have to eat porridge every day. Therefore, the first meal of the new year, homeowners should not eat white porridge.
- Don’t look in the mirror
Mirrors are objects of spiritual energy, capable of reflecting both positive and negative images. Therefore, grandparents have long taught that one should not look in the mirror after 6 p.m. to avoid seeing things that do not belong to the yang realm. Especially on New Year’s Eve is even more important. Many people believe that looking in the mirror at this time is easy to see “the devil”, which brings with it bad luck and bad luck.
- Do not spill oil
On New Year’s Eve while worshiping, homeowners should be careful not to spill oil (engine oil, lamp oil). The smell of the oil is so pungent that it overwhelms the scent of flowers and wine and wakes up the “devils”. Since then, disaster and disease have also flocked.
- Don’t wear all white or black
White and black are two basic colors and can make up the majority of many people’s wardrobe. However, these are two colors that are considered taboo in Tet costumes.
In Asian culture, white and black often represent sadness, gloom, and mourning. These are all negative feelings that should be avoided in the new year. Instead, you can prioritize bright, youthful colors that symbolize wealth such as red, blue, yellow …
Here are the instructions how to offer New Year’s Eve Vietnamese traditional Tet standards. Hopefully, through the above article, readers can better understand the customs of Tet. From there, bring a lot of luck and prosperity to the family in the new year. Monitor Muaban.net for the most up-to-date information.
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