Y nghia ngay tet han thuc trong van hoa Viet Nam

What is the real meaning of Korean New Year?

Han Thuc New Year has many meanings, but mainly has the following 3 meanings:

Remembering loved ones: Nostalgia here is the remembrance of deceased loved ones. Thanks to the above legend, the king remembered the merits of Gioi Tu Thoi, so he passed it on in folklore. On this day, family members will remember their deceased ancestors to live a better and more religious life.

Traditional folk tradition: not only a folk tradition of gratitude, but also a culinary culture. Drift cake is considered a beauty in Vietnamese culture. On Han Thuc New Year, people eat floating cakes to commemorate our country's rise from wet rice culture.

Pray for favorable wind and rain: The real Korean New Year begins in summer - the season of crops. People eat vegetarian cakes to start a new season and bring much fortune and luck in the new year.

The custom of eating floating cakes on the traditional Korean New Year's Day of Vietnamese people

On the 3rd day of the 3rd lunar month, Vietnamese families will prepare floating cakes, vegetarian cakes to worship Buddha, ancestors, and even gods in many places to show their sincerity towards the origin.

Vietnamese rice cakes and vegetarian cakes are different from Chinese cakes, but each has its own characteristics of Vietnamese food. Vietnamese people are also used to calling this Tet with the folk name Tet cake drift, more vegetarian cakes than Han Thuc New Year.

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The ceremony of worshiping floating cakes and vegetarian cakes has many noble meanings, is the crystallization of Vietnamese culture with bold soul and identity of the Vietnamese nation. Both types of cakes are made with fragrant glutinous rice flour, the result of hard work to offer to ancestors and grandparents.

In particular, the image of round, smooth white cakes and steamed buns placed side by side on the plate also carry the memory of the legend of "Au co with a hundred eggs". Vegetarian cake in turn represents 50 eggs following Au Co's mother to the forest and 50 eggs following Lac Long Quan's father to the sea. The image of banh tro and vegetarian cakes in the Korean New Year represents a sincere heart and continues the good tradition of his father.