WHY IS TET A FESTIVAL OF COMMUNION?
For a peasant people attached to the earth since the distant past. Tet has been and remains first of all a festival of communion with nature. In the rhythm of seasons, it marks an interlude for famers and rice fields to rest after twelve months of labour. Tet is not to be missed.
Tet is a festival of communion for the members of the same family and village. In former times, villagers hardly went outside their bamboo fences, those who could not return to their families for the first three days of the year felt deeply homesick, more than at any other time of the year.
All members of the family-grandparents, father, mother, brothers, sisters, uncles, and aunts-gather together to “eat tet” under the same roof. Friends and relatives visit one another and exchange greetings and good wishes.
Tet is also a festival of communion of all citizens of Viet Nam at home or abroad. Tet is also a festival of communion of the living with the dead. The ephemeral world of living celebrates under the benevolent gaze of the ancestors, who are invited back from the other World during the course of a ceremony to mark the trasition from the old year to the new.
Relatives and friends coming to deliver season’s greeting also pay homage to the spirits of the dead. Vietnamese attend the tombs of their kin with pious care before the old year expires, they clear all weeds and replace the plantings on the tomb.
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