Tet Nguyen Dan is a traditional cultural feature that has been ingrained in the minds of Vietnamese people for generations, an occasion for the whole family to gather and reunite after a year of hard work. Tet is an occasion for children far from home to reunite. Tet is also an occasion to express gratitude to parents, grandparents, and ancestors.
Space of integration
Lunar New Year is a special custom of the Vietnamese people. This traditional custom has accompanied the people through thousands of years of history. Through the periods and stages of the country's development, although Tet culture has changed, it still contains messages and beauties in the spiritual life of the nation. In recent years, along with the restoration of many traditional cultural quintessence, many cultural spaces have also been integrated.
In Hanoi, the place with a thousand-year-old tradition of the capital, the place that preserves the most ancient customs, practices, ceremonies, and ways of celebrating Tet, in recent years, many things that are not suitable for modern civilized lifestyle have been reduced. In big cities, many people also tend to travel far away for "three days of Tet", both as a spring trip to a foreign land to improve their knowledge, and as a first trip to a faraway place to "return" for the new year's business to expand and expand.
Associate Professor, Dr. Bui Thi An - National Assembly Delegate of the 13th tenure, said that most Vietnamese people with the blood of Hung Kings until now want Vietnamese Tet to exist, in a new style, according to new customs, in line with the trend of human civilization of the era, but without losing the unique identity of the Vietnamese people. Accordingly, Tet in the past was the entire month of January, with all the humanistic meanings: Family reunion, visiting relatives, neighbors, giving lucky money to grandparents, worshiping ancestors and festival activities to communicate with gods, heaven and earth...
Today, those humanistic meanings remain intact, but the Tet celebration procedures have been shortened. In many places, the New Year's Eve custom of picking up new shoots has also been transformed in a civilized and cultural way. For many years now, people no longer see the scene of bare trees on New Year's Eve because all the young shoots and branches have been broken, stripped, picked, and plucked, but pagodas and places where spring celebrations are held display many branches of money tree (Dracaena fragrans) for people to take home and rejoice in as a way to bring luck and fortune, creating a beautiful custom at the beginning of the year.
In particular, the current Lunar New Year in Vietnam is no longer flashy with wasteful "customs", does not stick to unreasonable and outdated rules, does not encourage superstitious customs, does not promote "spring trips" that waste human and material resources and lack culture... Vietnamese people have cleverly turned the "three days of Tet" and the whole Tet week into a beautiful time of the new year with practical things for themselves, the community and society. Vietnamese Tet is also a way to introduce Vietnam, the country and its people to international friends as a way of cultural exchange, a type of dialogue with other civilizations in the world.
Irreplaceable values
Tet culture has been closely associated with the nation for many generations. Regardless of the context or period, Tet still carries great spiritual values. Up to now, although Tet has changed, it still contains messages and beautiful features in the spiritual life of the nation. Many people believe that as long as we preserve the good traditional cultural features of the nation, we can develop sustainably and not be dissolved in the process of innovation and integration.
“Tet Nguyen Dan is a unique and special cultural feature of Vietnam that is recognized and enjoyed by many international friends, tourists and foreigners living and working in Vietnam. The view that Tet integrates but does not dissolve, in my opinion, is an extremely correct concept. Tet of Vietnamese people has many unique cultural features. When Tet comes, people tell each other to forget all the unfortunate and bad things of the old year. Therefore, this is also one of the very meaningful ways of living and teaching life,” Ms. Bui Thi An expressed.
Following the pace of life in the technological era, many convenient and modern forms have been introduced to the Lunar New Year. However, there are still many young people determined to "keep the fire" for the traditional Tet, so that Tet does not lose its value in today's fast-paced life. The cultural values of Tet today are still preserved and promoted through traditional customs such as: Visiting ancestors' graves, wrapping Chung cakes, worshiping on New Year's Eve...
The same goes for Nguyen Ha Phuong (Nam Dinh province). Going back to her hometown to go shopping for Tet, washing dong leaves with her parents to wrap banh chung, and cleaning the house to welcome Tet have become tasks that Phuong enjoys. Phuong shared: “For me, the feeling of the big family gathering around the pot of banh chung, telling the joys and sorrows of the year is a happiness that is not easy to have. I only get to wrap banh chung once a year, so I really appreciate and cherish these beautiful and precious memories.”
Although very busy every Tet holiday, Le Thi Thu's family (Cau Giay, Hanoi) still teaches traditional Tet values to their children. Every year, she arranges time, buys ingredients and lets her children make jam and some cakes. While making them, the children listen to Thu tell stories about the history associated with Tet.
Tet carries traditional values, unique features that create the cultural identity of the Vietnamese people that no other holiday can replace. The soul of Tet lies in the warm reunion, the whole family prepares to welcome the new spring. The way to celebrate Tet may change over time, but Vietnamese Tet customs do not change. Therefore, today's youth, although choosing different ways to celebrate Tet, still harmoniously combine tradition and modernity to create a warm, happy Tet atmosphere with family and friends. "Integrating but not dissolving", young people still strive every day to "awaken" the traditional Tet values of the whole nation in their own way.
Source: https://giadinhonline.vn/thieng-lieng-ngay-tet-nguyen-dan-d204333.html
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