MEANINGFUL TET GIFTS OF VIETNAMESE PEOPLE

Choosing Tet gifts will make you no longer have a headache if you know the meaning of these gifts on the Lunar New Year 2020

1. Conifer-Daisy-Apricot-Peach

These are flowers usually displayed on the Lunar New Year in every family because it has good Greek and conveys the concepts of Eastern culture.

– Conifer: Symbolizes the gentleman.

– Apricot: In the opinion of the ancients, this is a tree that represents the righteousness of the gentleman

– Daisy: The symbol of longevity.

– Peach: This flower brings warmth, reunification with a high, warm meaning.

Therefore, people can give each other pots of apricot, peach branches on the occasion of the new year to wish the union, luck, longevity to the family gifted in the new year. Nowadays, people tend to give each other strange and unique plants and flowers, which mean luck, but lose the meaning of traditional gifts.

2. Pictures and distiches

When Tet comes, people often give each other folk paintings or Tet distiches. The Dong Ho picture with a group of chicks gathered around their mother is a wish of peace and having a bunch of descendants for the giver. The picture has a herd of fat pigs instead wishes for a prosperous and full life for the whole yearIn addition, . The picture “Vinh hoa” is very suitable for newlyweds, wishing them soon have children. In addition, the red distich is also a very meaningful gift on the Lunar New Year. The Chinese New Year wishes written on red paper make people feel peaceful about an old Tet, traditional Tet with sincere and meaningful wishes written on the red parallel sentence.

3. The red items

In Lunar New Year, the clothes should be in red, house decorations in red, and gives each other red gifts. The easiest, you can choose Tet gifts which are home decorations in red and gold. According to Vietnamese beliefs, red is the color of luck, hanging red decorations in the house to bring good luck and dispel bad luck at the beginning of the year. Also in the opinion of the East, red is the color of luck and joy. That is the color of the lucky money, of the blessing, the word honest … Red is also the color of the old elderly’ costumes. Therefore, during Tet, people are very excited to receive gifts in red.

4. Wine

The old people used to store wine in gourd, later it was ceramic wine gourd. People give each other the best and most precious wine gourds because according to them, it is the place that contains the essence of heaven and earth. Gourd will bring prosperity to the whole family in the new year. Today, gourd has been replaced with modern wine bottles but the meaning has not changed.

5. New rice

Rice is one of the indispensable products in the daily life of every Vietnamese family and is especially important in the traditional Tet holiday. The old people gave each other rice to wish each other a prosperous and complete new year. Depending on each place, people in the countryside often bring a few kilograms of sticky rice or freshly harvested eight-fragrant rice for parents to cook for the new year. Children present these gifts with the desire to repay the merits of the parents, so that their parents are full for the year.

6. Chung cake

The menu of delicious dishes on the Vietnamese New Year’s Day Banh chung nowadays almost every house is packed, some people even go to buy because there is no time to pack. Now, no one gives each other banh chung, but before, in the traditional Tet holiday, close neighbors often choose a couple of beautiful chung cake for giving each other before Tet. Banh chung is a symbol of earth, used to worship ancestors, heaven and earth with the hope of a full new year.

7. Rooster

The majesty and majesty of the rooster symbolizes the noble virtues of the martial arts; When they find food, they always call the swarm to show the humanity; every day always nape on time to show the credit. When giving roosters to parents, children want to show respect and affirm that their parents are always strong supporters for themselves. Son in-laws, through this gift, also want to show that they are decent men, good husbands and they are worth to the parent in-laws give their daughters to them. Nowadays, people don’t give each other roosters anymore, but rooster painting is probably a perfect substitute.

8. Dogs

In the past, tthere was a saying “Cats come home showing difficulty, dogs come home showing good luck”. At the beginning of the new year, if a strange dog runs into the house, the family will be lucky for the whole year. That is why people give each other lovely puppies, because they think that dogs often bring good luck. A dog’s “woof” barking sounds like the word “rich”. Through this gift, people also want a long-term cooperation, doing business smoothly.