What do you need to worship for the Lunar New Year?

This year, the Lunar New Year (also known as the New Year to kill insects) falls on June 3 according to the Yang calendar. According to the concept, Doan means opening, Horse is the period from 11am to 1pm and therefore, eating Tet Doan Ngo is eaten at noon. Doan Ngo at the beginning of the sun is shortest, closest to heaven and earth, coincides with the summer solstice.

In Vietnam, for each region and region in Vietnam, the offerings of the So people will be different. For people in the North, on this holiday, a tray of offerings will have an indispensable dish, sticky rice (also known as wine). In addition to glutinous rice wine, there will be a tray of five fruits, which are often typical fruits for this season in the North – plum, litchi…

For the Central people, the offering tray will also have sticky wine, typical fruits of the season, but in the offering tray of the Central people on Doan Ngo New Year, there is also duck meat.

And for people in the South, the Doan Ngo Tet offering tray will be indispensable with dishes such as Banh ú Ba Bang, water drifting tea and Gac sticky rice. In addition, the Southern people’s worshiping tray will also have sticky rice, wine, and fruits.

Some indispensable dishes in the Lunar New Year:

1. Glutinous rice wine: This is an indispensable dish for any family on Dragon Boat Festival. On the morning of the 5th day of the 5th lunar month, everyone eats a little sticky rice with the hope and belief that they will repel pathogens in the body.

According to folk beliefs, the strong taste of sticky rice mixed with the spicy yeast of the wine will have the effect of eliminating harmful parasites in the body. Glutinous rice wine in each region is also different. While rice wine in the North is left to separate each grain, the rice wine of the Central people is pressed into blocks and the rice wine in the South is rounded.

2. Banh Khuc: Doan Ngo Festival of the Nung people (Muong Khuong, Lao Cai) cannot be complete without banh Khuc. The ingredients for the cake are delicious glutinous rice, vegetables, green beans, and black sesame seeds.

3. Water drifting tea: This is also an indispensable dish on this day. Each round tea ball is made of white glutinous rice flour, inside is green bean paste, eaten with coconut milk, has a fatty taste and is very famous in the South, similar to the drift cake of the North.

Banh Tro: This is a traditional dish during the Lunar New Year in the South Central and Southern Vietnam and some parts of the North. Banh tro has many different names and shapes such as banh ú, banh gio, and banh yin and has several variations depending on the locality.

4. Fruits: The fruits chosen to worship and eat during the Lunar New Year are mainly summer fruits, fresh and delicious, with a sour taste, such as plums, peaches, litchi, rambutans, mangoes. , watermelon… Without these fruits, the Lunar New Year would lose much of its meaning.

5. Millet tea: This dish is also very typical for the Lunar New Year in Hue. The round millet seeds, after being milled to peel, soaked and boiled until soft, viscous, adding sugar and ginger juice will produce a fragrant pot of tea with an attractive golden millet color.

6. Duck meat: This dish is indispensable on Tet holiday to kill insects of people in the Central region. Some explain that ducks have welding properties, eating them will help keep the body cool and nutritious in the sweltering days of the beginning of the fifth lunar month. Meanwhile, some people think that duck will be greasy and delicious from the 5th day of the 5th (lunar calendar) onwards.

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