Reenacting the "Farewell to the old, welcome the new" ceremony

The Thang Long - Hanoi Heritage Conservation Center organizes a series of Tet activities lasting from January 20 to February 6 with many special activities.

Traditional Tet exhibition space at Thang Long Imperial Citadel.

With the display of traditional Tet space, we will go back in time to the "Old Tet - Tet during the subsidy period" of the 70s and 80s to relive a special historical period of the country. At that time, near the days before Tet, the trading stores were always crowded with people standing in line waiting to buy Tet goods with coupons. Tet goods bags often contained boxes of Hanoi jam, packs of Ba Dinh tea, Thang Long cigarettes (or Dien Bien/Chien Thang/Song Hong), bottles of Thanh Mai lemon wine (or silkworm wine, orange wine, coffee wine), soft candy packages...

“Tet in the Subsidy Period” is recreated through 3 exhibition spaces: State Trade Pavilion, Painting - Flower - Fireworks Pavilion and Worship Space. The exhibition spaces highlight the material, spiritual and cultural life of the people of Hanoi half a century ago.

At the exhibition booth "Royal New Year's Eve Rituals in Spring", through the form of introducing documents, explaining with simulated paintings and model artifacts, visitors can visualize part of the political, cultural and historical life of the golden past of the ancient royal palace.

Also at the Thang Long Imperial Citadel heritage space, the "Sending off the old and welcoming the new" ceremony with the Lich Tien ceremony; the carp releasing ceremony; the pole-raising ceremony; the changing of the guard ceremony... will recreate the rituals during the Lunar New Year that used to take place in the ancient Thang Long royal palace, expressing the wish for prosperity for the country, peace and prosperity for the people "sending off the old and welcoming the new" - seeing off the old year and welcoming the new year.

Among them is the Tien Lich ritual - not only a sacred ritual that plays an important role in the royal and folk life of the past, but the "calendar" has become a special object closely associated with the lives of people in the past, present and future. Making a calendar for the whole year is to grasp the important milestones of the Royal Court in a year, in accordance with the seasons and weather. Therefore, this ritual is like a connecting thread between contemporary people and the culture of the past.

Source: https://daidoanket.vn/tai-hien-nghi-le-tong-cuu-nghinh-tan-10298610.html