2006 spring offensive of Viet Nam

2006 spring offensive of Viet Nam

The King in the field

Since Spring Festival is coming, I believe that many friends will use long vacation to go see Viet Nam, in the hope that this passage could help us to do a Festival in Viet Nam travel lessons.

Spring in the Vietnamese Tet Nguyen Dan in is called, the "new year's day Festival", hereinafter referred to as Tet.

Tet originates from the Chinese word "section", refers to all festivals, but in Viet Nam especially Spring Festival.

Viet Nam also use zodiac sign, Zodiac and order, and basically the same, just put the rabbit with the cat, so in the coming year is the year of the dog.

Dog in Viet Nam has a symbol of the indomitable, a little of what we call "conveys the meaning of".

New year's first half year of the preparatory work for a month or so.

Lunar December 23 is the kitchen, stove, MD (Tao Quan) on this day back to heaven to the Jade Emperor debriefing, and degree of his annual leave, until the first month in 1845 came back to work. Every household is a wonderful offerings farewell comrade, hope you focus of his superior leadership there for the whole family gives you a good audit reports, which leads to the next year of good luck. Offerings in addition to widespread common fruits and flowers, with the characteristics of Viet Nam is paper Stork, paper, paper, plus a no pants of dress — this does not make sense of tradition in our China but not Hing: does the poor to even the trousers are when?

As the legend stoves you are sitting in the back-up days of carp, so this day throughout Viet Nam will release many carp, cooking of offerings in nature also inevitably a live carp.

As a family to protect God's Heavenly focal Jun back, in order to avoid the goblins, Viet Nam will at the door for vertical-flagpoles, top hung block huangbu, called Cau Neu.

It is said that this is the Buddha who specialized in order to protect the Viet Nam which spells, probably said "yellow flags, go emotionally." This reminds me of Bali in Indonesia villages have seen similar flag flags, coincidently, the Hindu to exorcise evil spirits.

We know that today's Southern Viet Nam in history is the Centre of the Champa Kingdom, Viet Nam and many customs was its impact.

Champa Kingdom is a Hindu country, from the regional centre of Hindu Kingdom there learned Java many nutrients; while the Hindu Bali is in Java, when Islam threat facing the Kingdom along a now Mey's Isthmus to the past. Then, Viet Nam's mythical flag flags and Bali's drive away are the flag flags have a common origin? who want to mix in 2006, a master's degree in East Asian studies, consider doing this.

Pulled far away, back to the topic.

This flag flags today only in Viet Nam has, in the country to see the city switched kumquat tree instead of flagpoles and yellow sect, is not very intuitive?

Viet Nam in the new year are paying attention to decorate your home.

In the North, peach (Canh Dao) is an indispensable during the Spring Festival, and poor families would buy a bunch of back; the Centre and South of the preference of yellow and apricot. Interestingly, they put this new year with apricot called Plum branches (Canh Mai), I guess this custom is subjected to the influence of Chinese culture: the plum blossom to decorate the winter. But the climate in Southern Viet Nam, moist, not suitable for the growth of plum blossom, with apricot flowers instead.

Viet Nam Street full of the new year, various flower adorned with flower, photography enthusiasts can produce many good films.

The flower market in Ho Chi Minh Nguyen Hue Street, from the central square along Tran Hung DAO Street (Tran Hung Dao) are Xiangdong walked a few blocks to see; Hanoi's flower market are located north of comb-line alley (Hang Luoc), South to dyeing silk alley (Hang Dao), East the drafting posts alley (Hang Chieu), West to Don t drift (Hang Ma) of the northern part of the old town, where you can see many heaped with peach or bundle with more strains of kumquat tree serves as a temporary booth motorcycle. In addition, the nearby market with spring (Dong Xuan) is rolled to make cool.

More that years ago, the more lively bazaars of Viet Nam, everybody is rushing to get holiday, new year's Eve evening even reached the climax of hyperinflation.

But to eat the reunion, streets suddenly unusual tranquility, just half an hour between the extremely strong contrast, couldn't help thinking of Ramadan Kaizhai hours in the Middle East.

Speaking of the reunion, Viet Nam people Festival eat?

The most important traditional food is the year of rice (Banh Chung).

These days to Viet Nam gourmet of Hue's friends will note: many roadside shops at the door to swing out of the stack of old high green "bricks", that is, the dumplings. It is actually a kind of style rice cake, similar to our approach: glutinous rice dumplings clip on steam cooked tunjian meat, mung, banana leaf outside into a rectangle, and then take thou lashed, bundled and sold. No wonder years ago the streets carrying years dumplings home Viet Nam looked as if someone is carrying a stack of bricks.

Legend symbol of Earth in rice: green indicates that all growth, pork and bean indicates that animals and plants.

The so-called sky, since the year in the North with square symbol of Earth, South dumplings just put it into a circle, but not filling, the symbol of heaven.

Another spring vegetable called Mang, is to shoot and pork in a "notorious" style fish sauce (Nuoc Mam) eat, foreigners may not be used to eat.

Speaking of which-fish sauce, and stinky tofu, Durian an order of magnitude of delicious Ah. Some people think it tastes too unpleasant. ..... Good thing is never to all people, not in the habit of not fortunate to enjoy only said.

Finished the year's Eve dinner.

Viet Nam people consider ancestors will go home to visit the new year at midnight, so about a week ago Viet Nam people will go to the first person, and by using them to return home reunion. Eve Viet Nam people would burn the sandalwood, then with a plate of pure white narcissus to meet the ancestors.

According to customs, the new year the first voice heard is important, it heralds the coming year's haul: barking said no to not

Lee, cattle call indicates hard toil, OWL call it means that there will be a funeral. In order to avoid hearing the ominous sound, but also in order to scare all braving the Viet Nam people simply own manufacturing some prosperous for live sound, such as gongs and drums or large firecrackers. Unfortunately, ten years ago the Government of Viet Nam have banned Fireworks, present trend is to use sound recorder, and even the combination of audio and video playback that sprawing, deafening sound of crackling pop out.

As with sound, new year's first guest is also very important, called the "Red House".

Career, sons and daughters of the crowds of middle-aged man's most popular; single middle-aged people, has recently died at home or other last year suffered varying degrees of Doom is unpopular — these people had better stay at home for the entire spring door thinking too, don't go out and spread of bad luck. If you received an invitation in the lunar new year's day to Viet Nam House guest, the host typically explain visit time. Don't go in advance, otherwise the case than master "reservation" of the first guests early is in trouble. Some cautious and prudent owner will even turn themselves in the middle of the door and then come in and become the first "guest" to prevent the unexpected or visit the "disastrous mistake."

Viet Nam had the new year is called "travel" (Xuat Hanh), according to the Customs to please the "professionals" with the word's eight to travel, meet exchange greetings "chuc mung nam moi".

Lasses you like going to the Woods picked branches with leaves, known as the "green harvest", is considered a very auspicious sign. Why? in Vietnamese, "green", "Lu" (loc).

With the Chinese lunar new year's day, in Viet Nam were many taboos, such as cannot mend clothes, no swearing his temper, cannot sweep — this is not the same with China, not break things — it seems that Viet Nam people do not speak about a "broken pieces of peace".

On this day the elders will give kids party red envelope that contained the "profit" (li xi). ' Ink ' will be held in the "sweep open pen" ceremony, and then write some VT poetry to show good taste.

Popular in Southern Viet Nam in the new year's Unicorn.

It looks like the Chinese lion dance, performed by various people dress up early one morning, went from door to door thanks to the door saying that lucky. Figure a good lucky words of merchants who already have a red envelope sealed or prepare a color, but want to take it out of the need for explicit points ability: Master often color from high in the doorway, Unicorn have people stand up, at the onlookers cheers the color of a swallow.

New Viet Nam each household must be written in the new year.

As more and more popularity of the Latin text, the character of the new year, the trend now is to use the brush strokes of Chinese calligraphy to write Latin alphabet. A year ago, provides the services of painting and calligraphy store business particularly good, in Ho Chi Minh City can see many such shops, shop displayed in the new year, new year's wide range of printed materials.

Viet Nam statutory Spring Festival holiday is three days, the big three families and bid farewell to their ancestors; thirty is "open-case" day, government departments to start work; come back to work in 1845 foci Jun, households in front of the flag flags or kumquat tree to this day to away, it also means that the Spring Festival celebration came to an end.

However, in the North, diverse and new year's celebration has always been concerned to continue until March until summer.

Because of the Viet Nam national land strip like the geographical span pole, the South and customs vary greatly, if during the Spring Festival to Viet Nam travel words should try to go around learning about different festivals and customs, such as in the South of Ho Chi Minh City is the first station, watch how the preparations for the new year the people of South Vietnam, or you can visit the largest Chinatown — Bank (Cholon), where the Chinese accounted for about 80% of the local population; then in the middle of the ancient capital of hue to spend new year's Eve, new year's day; then went to Hanoi surrounding enjoying years celebrations, such as thirty-six of the temple with the odd game gun, 13 to 15 of soul song competition and lasted two temple fair, the fragrance will trace the temples, and so on; the more the last pass through the mountains in the North or from Pingxiang, Guangxi, Yunnan estuary, feel the atmosphere of the Spring Festival of the motherland.

Of course, the year before and after the traffic may not be convenient, so early bookings.

If you are lazy, unwilling to travel long distances, it may wish to stay comfortably in the Centre of Hoi an instant full-new year holidays.

As one of UNESCO world cultural heritage of Hoi an ancient town in five hundred years ago, but the special economic zone, Viet Nam has accepted to Chinese-based merchants from around the world, is the globalization of trade, the earliest one of facilitator. Here's a very rich Chinese cultural atmosphere, coupled with the North Sea Yunshan brings cold damp cold frontal cover, the hoi an warm and dry, very suitable idly sitting in autumn basin River brews a cup of strong coffee in the Sun of Viet Nam slip.

A final tip: Halong Bay in the northern part of the season more clouds, visibility poor, coupled with the doomed with noisy noisy mission, we advise you not to go along for the ride.

* Explanation of the problem: the more familiar with the history of the friends I know CPV in the spring of 1968.

Although it is tactical fiasco, strategic it became a turning point in the Vietnam war. In the three weeks of fighting, the ancient capital of hue into rubble field, a blossoming throughout the country. Both to the arrival of the new year!, Christmas joy forever is the blessing of the topic. Not only blessing compatriots the CityGuide, also as a blessing and simple friendly Viet Nam people!