What Trees Vietnamese people buy for Tet, Lunar New Year
What Trees Vietnamese people buy for Tet, Lunar New ...
Dec 14, 2011 8:18:43 AM
At these days, driving in the streets, you can feel TET is coming. The streets become morecrowded and decorated with coloured lights and red banners. People are morehurriedly, busy buying gifts,
cleaning and decorating their houses. Shops andoffices are redecorated, look brighter. Some streets which are used to sellingflowers become more colourful with many kinds of flowers...
Combining with the merry atmosphere, peach blossom, apricot blossom andkumquat trees are showing off their beauty with striking colour for traditionalTet. Vietnamese people decorate their houses and offices with these ornamentalplants during Tet as symbols of warmth, wealth and good luck for the country’sbiggest holiday. Peach blossom is traditional at Tet in the North while apricotblossom is traditional in the South. The kumquat tree with its ripe deep orangefruits is popular throughout the country.
A kumquat tree with many fruits makes a house brighter and warmer,especially in the cold weather in the northland. The tree is a populardecoration for the living room during Tet. Its many fruits symbolize thefertility and fruitfulness that the family hopes will come in the coming year.The more fruit on the tree, the luckier your family. Greeting cards and goodluck symbols are hung from the Tet tree.
Therefore, kumquat trees of about two or three feet tall are carefullyselected and prominently displayed during Tet. The bushes of the tree have beenprecisely pruned to display ripe deep orange fruits with smooth clear thin skinshining like little suns or gold coins on the first day of the lunar new year.Other fruits must still be green to ripen later. This represents the wish thatwealth will come to you now and in the future. The leaves must be thick anddark green with some light green sprouts. The fruits represent thegrandparents, the flowers represent parents, the buds represent children and thelight green leaves represent grandchildren. The tree thus symbolizes manygenerations. Guests will caress the light green leaves about to sprout andcompliment the discerning host who chose so carefully.
Talking about ornamental plants for Tet, you cannot forget peachblossom and apricot blossom, considered as traditional Tet’s flowers. Apricotblossom is present at most families in southland and peach blossom is morepopular in the northland. They mark the end of winter and the beginning ofspring. They bring good luck to your houses in the new year, their colour isthe symbol of happiness. They are absolutely beautiful when they are full bloombut they also really impress when they are tumbling down in the drizzling, coverthe ground by pink petals.
Peach blossom is an enduring symbol of the Lunar New Year. You canvisit Nhat Tan ( Hanoi ) where the delicate art of growing the trees is passedfrom generation to generation. According to Vietnamese legend, once upon atime, in the East of the Soc Son Mountain, North Vietnam, existed a giganticpeach tree. The tree was so huge that its shadow extended through out a largearea of land. Up on the tree, lived two powerful deities, Tra and Uat Luy. Theyprotected the people of the land in the surrounding areas from the devils. Thedevils were so afraid of these two deities that even the sight of the peachtree haunted them. However, at the end of every lunar year, these two deitieshad to fly
back to heaven for an annual meeting with the Jade Emperor. During thistime, the devils took advantage of this opportunity to harass the peacefulinhabitants. To fight the battle against these devils, people came up with theideas of display a branch of the peach tree in the house to scare away thedevils. Since then, it becomes a custom of the North Vietnamese to have abranch of a peach tree during Tet season to protect themselves against theSatan soldiers. Those who do not have peach tree can draw the figures of thetwo deities, Tra and Uat Luy, on red paper, and display them in front of thehouse.
People say that if you have not had any apricot blossom in your house,that means you have not prepared for Tet. It is compared as the symbol of thespring in Southern Vietnam and it has the similar important role like theChristmas tree on the Christmas holiday. At the moment of the previous years,if you go around a city, specially to the flower-show, you can see the yellowor the white everywhere, that is the color of apricot blossom. Although apricotblossom are planted mostly in the southland, now you can easily buy one inHanoi.
Apricot blossom is more commonly used for this ceremony in the Southbecause of the warm weather. Apricot is a small, yellow or white floweringplant that is used for decoration during Tet with the meanings of prosperityand well-being for the family. The value of these flowers is determined by thenumber of petals - the more petals, the more expensive the flower.
Lunar New Year or Tet is a fate of the family, and the time for familymembers to gather at home to enjoy warm atmosphere. Every Vietnamese family hastheir own way celebrating the New Year, but they share the same symbol of Tetin their mind, which distinct Vietnamese cultural characteristics. The symbolis an indispensable part of Vietnamese traditional Tet, and brings the Tetflavour to every family when the day is coming. In addition to such nationaldishes and products as "Fat pork, salted onions, parallel sentenceswritten on red paper. Long bamboo poles planted upright, strings of fireworksand square glutinous rice cakes", it is indispensable for each Vietnamesefamily to mark their Tet by colorful golden kumquat trees, peach blossom aswell as yellow apricot flowers as the symbol of good fortune for the comingyear.
This article is written by Jane Nguyen from Vacation to Vietnam
For original article and more information about Vietnam Lunar New Year, please visit
http://vacationstovietnam.com/lastest-travel-news/what-trees-does-vietnamese-people-buy-for-tet.html
Vacation to Vietnam
Vietnam Package Vacation
Vietnam vacation
Travel agency in Vietnam
Combining with the merry atmosphere, peach blossom, apricot blossom andkumquat trees are showing off their beauty with striking colour for traditionalTet. Vietnamese people decorate their houses and offices with these ornamentalplants during Tet as symbols of warmth, wealth and good luck for the country’sbiggest holiday. Peach blossom is traditional at Tet in the North while apricotblossom is traditional in the South. The kumquat tree with its ripe deep orangefruits is popular throughout the country.
A kumquat tree with many fruits makes a house brighter and warmer,especially in the cold weather in the northland. The tree is a populardecoration for the living room during Tet. Its many fruits symbolize thefertility and fruitfulness that the family hopes will come in the coming year.The more fruit on the tree, the luckier your family. Greeting cards and goodluck symbols are hung from the Tet tree.
Therefore, kumquat trees of about two or three feet tall are carefullyselected and prominently displayed during Tet. The bushes of the tree have beenprecisely pruned to display ripe deep orange fruits with smooth clear thin skinshining like little suns or gold coins on the first day of the lunar new year.Other fruits must still be green to ripen later. This represents the wish thatwealth will come to you now and in the future. The leaves must be thick anddark green with some light green sprouts. The fruits represent thegrandparents, the flowers represent parents, the buds represent children and thelight green leaves represent grandchildren. The tree thus symbolizes manygenerations. Guests will caress the light green leaves about to sprout andcompliment the discerning host who chose so carefully.
Talking about ornamental plants for Tet, you cannot forget peachblossom and apricot blossom, considered as traditional Tet’s flowers. Apricotblossom is present at most families in southland and peach blossom is morepopular in the northland. They mark the end of winter and the beginning ofspring. They bring good luck to your houses in the new year, their colour isthe symbol of happiness. They are absolutely beautiful when they are full bloombut they also really impress when they are tumbling down in the drizzling, coverthe ground by pink petals.
Peach blossom is an enduring symbol of the Lunar New Year. You canvisit Nhat Tan ( Hanoi ) where the delicate art of growing the trees is passedfrom generation to generation. According to Vietnamese legend, once upon atime, in the East of the Soc Son Mountain, North Vietnam, existed a giganticpeach tree. The tree was so huge that its shadow extended through out a largearea of land. Up on the tree, lived two powerful deities, Tra and Uat Luy. Theyprotected the people of the land in the surrounding areas from the devils. Thedevils were so afraid of these two deities that even the sight of the peachtree haunted them. However, at the end of every lunar year, these two deitieshad to fly
back to heaven for an annual meeting with the Jade Emperor. During thistime, the devils took advantage of this opportunity to harass the peacefulinhabitants. To fight the battle against these devils, people came up with theideas of display a branch of the peach tree in the house to scare away thedevils. Since then, it becomes a custom of the North Vietnamese to have abranch of a peach tree during Tet season to protect themselves against theSatan soldiers. Those who do not have peach tree can draw the figures of thetwo deities, Tra and Uat Luy, on red paper, and display them in front of thehouse.
People say that if you have not had any apricot blossom in your house,that means you have not prepared for Tet. It is compared as the symbol of thespring in Southern Vietnam and it has the similar important role like theChristmas tree on the Christmas holiday. At the moment of the previous years,if you go around a city, specially to the flower-show, you can see the yellowor the white everywhere, that is the color of apricot blossom. Although apricotblossom are planted mostly in the southland, now you can easily buy one inHanoi.
Apricot blossom is more commonly used for this ceremony in the Southbecause of the warm weather. Apricot is a small, yellow or white floweringplant that is used for decoration during Tet with the meanings of prosperityand well-being for the family. The value of these flowers is determined by thenumber of petals - the more petals, the more expensive the flower.
Lunar New Year or Tet is a fate of the family, and the time for familymembers to gather at home to enjoy warm atmosphere. Every Vietnamese family hastheir own way celebrating the New Year, but they share the same symbol of Tetin their mind, which distinct Vietnamese cultural characteristics. The symbolis an indispensable part of Vietnamese traditional Tet, and brings the Tetflavour to every family when the day is coming. In addition to such nationaldishes and products as "Fat pork, salted onions, parallel sentenceswritten on red paper. Long bamboo poles planted upright, strings of fireworksand square glutinous rice cakes", it is indispensable for each Vietnamesefamily to mark their Tet by colorful golden kumquat trees, peach blossom aswell as yellow apricot flowers as the symbol of good fortune for the comingyear.
This article is written by Jane Nguyen from Vacation to Vietnam
For original article and more information about Vietnam Lunar New Year, please visit
http://vacationstovietnam.com/lastest-travel-news/what-trees-does-vietnamese-people-buy-for-tet.html
Vacation to Vietnam
Vietnam Package Vacation
Vietnam vacation
Travel agency in Vietnam
Changed from cucvht on Dec 14, 2011 8:19:37 AM
