The origin of Tet holiday

The origin of Tet holiday

Post by admin /22/08/2020

The meaning of Dragon Festival

Doan Ngo or Doan Duong New Year, mid-year New Year, New Year to kill insects ... takes place on May 5 (lunar calendar). Doan is the beginning, noon or yang means at noon, when there are many solar energy. Noon is also May (lunar calendar), when the sun is closest to the earth, the solar energy is at its highest.

The first days of May are also the days of changing seasons, from sunny to rainy season, cold to hot season. In ancient agriculture, these are the days of the transition from the Chiem crop to the Season crop. These days, insects also begin to multiply vigorously. People pass on many festive cultural practices, eating, drinking, picking tobacco ... to give thanks to ancestors; pray for good crops, people will be healthy, not be sick, sick, or evil.

The origin of the Dragon festival started from the Vietnamese strain?

In the article: "Customs of Vietnamese and Chinese Doan Ngo in a functional perspective", Ths Nguyen Ngoc Tho gives the point that, since the end of the Eastern Han dynasty, many people have said that the Dragon Horse Festival is derived from the death of Khuat Nguyen, a government official. Bored with dissuading King So not to believe in the unsuccessful Qin state and being filled away from the country, he jumped into the Mi La River (a branch of the Xiang River in Hunan, China) and committed suicide on the 5th. May 5. After the king's life was mourning, he made sacrifices and brought them down to the river. He came back to tell the dream that the sacrifices were eaten by the fish, so the king gave them a pack of cakes and colorful thread to drop into the river so that the fish would not eat them. It gradually became customary, including the annual Chinese dragon boat racing festival on this day.

According to another legend, this New Year is related to the story of Luu Than and Nguyen Trieu being first. The story is almost like Tu Thuc to the first of Vietnam. On the 5th of May, two young men from Luu and Nguyen went to the forest to pick medicines, met fairies, and then joined the fate. Half a year back, the scenery, people went to heaven, the two guys had to leave, no one knew. Since then, people use May 5 to commemorate the two guys.

In Korea, the Dragon-Horse Festival is also a tribute to a general named Gulwon during the reign of King Hwe, the Cho Sun dynasty (13th to 19th century), captured by the enemy and committed suicide to keep the average atmosphere on May 5. (Korean Annual Customs and Food-Dano, 2009). If the above event is true, the Dragon-horse festival in Korea has not started until the 13th century.

In our country, the festival of Doan Ngo is called "Kill insects", Tet in the middle of the year. I do not know when this day began, but in Vietnamese ca dao, there is a sentence:

“May is the Lunar New Year

Remembering the death anniversary of Vietnamese mothers often Van Lang ”

Accordingly, May 5 is the anniversary of the death of the mother of Au Co. The house is about to have rice, cakes to worship and commemorate the ancestors. Thus, the death anniversary of the Vietnamese motherland must be thousands of years before the Khuat Nguyen dynasty. In addition, the former So country had the majority of the people of Bach Viet of the Yueh strain (Vietnamese race), and held the power, but Khuat Nguyen was originally a So national. An individual's suicide cannot become a national festival, but according to researchers, Khuat Nguyen's death was due to the Great Bach Viet (Tu Ma Thien, q. 40 - History, p. 3b; Hua Van Tien, translation of Annamese history - original of Japanese historian Nhan Thon Thanh Doan, published by Xinhua News Agency, 1957, p. 34) 1.

If according to her grandparents' agriculture calendar, each year starts from the November of lunar calendar (January, December, January, February ...), that means starting on the rice season of Chiem. The beginning of May is the end of the Chiem crop, the beginning of the season. This is the period when farmers give thanks to heaven and earth, ancestors and celebrate the harvest. Thus, this date is a typical day of wet rice culture, far different from the barley culture. Therefore, this day is the day that begins by the Viet ethnic group, not the Han ethnicity, but we also call it Mid-Year Tet (Nguyen Ngoc Tho, Vietnamese and Chinese Doan Ngo customs in a functional perspective). The Vietnamese people can be confident that Doan Ngo is completely a traditional Tet holiday of their Vietnamese people.

The colorful dragon boat festival in the world

In Vietnam, each place has cultural activities and typical dishes today. The Muong people in the Muong Khuong area have a delicious traditional chalk dish. Ingredients for baking are delicious sticky rice, vegetables (a genus of the Chrysanthemum family), green beans, and roasted sesame seeds. Soak the rice thoroughly, puree it with vegetables, then knead it into flour, make a cake with green bean paste mixed with sesame seeds. The cake is steamed or fried.

Northern Kinh people usually eat rice, wine, fruit and some cakes on the morning of the 5th day after waking up to kill all the insects in their bodies. According to the elderly, the rice wine makes the worms in the person drunk, they must rise up, the fruit is the crystallization of the tree, also the medicinal herbs that can kill all insects.

The Central and Southern people have a bamboo leaf ú or trophy cake with the ingredients as well as sticky rice, green beans and a few other dishes.

On the 5th of May, many places have the custom of making ancestral offerings; hang wormwood leaves in front of the house to eliminate evil spirits; making five-color bags for children; go to the forest to pick medicine; scout the tree for fruit (one person climbs a tree, the one below uses a knife to knock on the trunk to ask the reason for few fruits and threatens to cut the tree if the tree doesn't go wrong, the person on the tree will promise

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