What are the similarities between Vietnamese and China Spring Festival customs?

Vietnam will eat large square zongzi wrapped in banana leaves on holidays, usually with soybeans or mung bean pork as stuffing. Zongzi is generally like this.

Step 2 buy annual flowers

Vietnamese will go to the flower market to buy new year's goods during the Spring Festival. The most common ones are peach blossom, marigold (locally called plum blossom) and kumquat.

Step 3 post Spring Festival couplets

Although China will also post Spring Festival couplets, Vietnamese Spring Festival couplets are not quite the same as those in China. They are written in letters (Vietnamese) and have the same meaning as Chinese characters. Of course, some will also attach Chinese characters.

4. Spring Festival banner

During the Lunar New Year, every household will insert Spring Festival couplets at home (C? Y nêu), because Vietnam's national flag has a red background, modern people can also use the national flag to replace the traditional spring banners, so the building residents put the spring banners outside the window to form a unique landscape.

Step 5 release carp

According to traditional Vietnamese customs, the 23rd day of the lunar calendar on the eve of the Spring Festival is Kitchen God Day. Kitchen God is the god who is in charge of family life. The mount of Kitchen God is carp, which will become Jackie Chan and send Kitchen God back to Heaven. Therefore, the kitchen god should prepare a live carp, burn the sacrifice, release the carp, and the kitchen god will officially go on duty. Therefore, there is this custom.