On the 30th day of Tet, leaving behind the hardships and worries of a year, everyone tries to quickly arrange their work, return to their families, and gather around the year-end reunion dinner.
In the bustling atmosphere of the last days of the Year of the Tiger, the family tries to complete everything well in the old year to welcome a new year that promises to have a lot of new prosperity.
New year, new year is coming! How warm is the traditional Vietnamese New Year, the Tet of union members, of family meals…
Traditional family values
“Happy Tet holiday all over my hometown. People out, Central, North, South. Wherever you go, everyone remembers. Go home and have fun with your family” – those are the words imbued with country love in the song “New Year’s Day in my hometown” by the late musician Tu Huy. Indeed, every time the Spring Festival comes, no matter where they study or do business, the children also gather at home to enjoy the warm Tet with their family.
In Vietnam, we have many Tet traditions, but the Lunar New Year is considered the most important Tet holiday. It is not only an opportunity for people to eat well, dress well, have fun, but it is important that in the heart of every Vietnamese person, the traditional New Year carries the meaning of reunion and reunion.
Mr. Nguyen Xuan Hieu (Vinh Phuc hometown) who lives and works in Hanoi shared that no matter where he goes to work, no matter how busy he is, he always arranges work to return to his hometown and gather around his family’s tray of rice. end of the year family.
“There is nothing happier and more peaceful than when in the warm atmosphere, fragrant incense smoke, by the tray of rice, there are enough green chung cakes, pickled onions, pork rolls… children and grandchildren talk to their grandparents and parents regarding what they have done. good things in the year, from studying, doing business to love, filial piety or even nostalgia, unfinished things and love stories, hope for a favorable and peaceful new year, …” Mr. Hieu expressed.
The year-end dinners are not like regular meals, they don’t have to be painted with flavors, just a few typical main dishes of Tet such as banh chung, pork rolls, pickled onions, or regional specialties… But with a warm family atmosphere, laughter and joy have created the flavor of Tet, and at the same time contributed to the formation of traditions and family lifestyle.
In addition, the 30th Tet dinner is delicious because of the excitement of the children in the house following waiting for Tet, delicious because of the gathering, with family members, and delicious because the children and grandchildren look to the origin, regarding Grandpa. ancestral grandmother, to the place where they “buried each other and cut their navel”.
Family tray on Tet holiday has many sacred and noble sentimental values (Illustration image)
“Pink thread” binds friendship
The desire to return to the homeland, to the rustic dishes and the full gathering of love is always hidden deep in everyone’s heart. Whether it shows on the outside or not, in their hearts it is the most burning desire.
For Vietnamese people, family meals are a traditional cultural trait showing community character, a “pink thread” that connects family members from generation to generation. At the same time, being the soul of loving reunion, nurturing the human soul to create a warm and complete reunion atmosphere.
The year-end meal is not a New Year’s ritual, it is a custom of the Vietnamese people. The year-end meal is a cultural feature that has been imprinted in the minds of many Vietnamese people and has become a strong bond between family members every time Tet comes in the spring.
That’s why, on the last day of the year, life is chaotic, people who have to work, can’t return home, always keep watch in their hearts, the year-end dinner, the meal “the birds return to the nest”, the meal. reunion meal for members.
The old year is regarding to pass, a new year is coming and the year-end dinner tray is regarding to be served. Again, I wish that every family reunited, because a full reunion is the most joyful Tet…