Characteristics ofLunar New YearAs the origin, about the community, our fathers often make tray of rice soup, fruit cake, sticky rice, tea and wine to offer ancestral grandparents, earthen gods, landsmanship to pray for favorable rain and wind,Sweet trees are sweet, happy family.Depending on the concept of each region, people choose the products offered to their grandparents and ancestors on Doan Ngo New Year.Let's see how Doan Ngo Tet tray in 3 different regions like you!
The tray offered to the Northern Lunar New Year
Glutinous rice rice with yellow flowers and glutinous rice
On the Lunar New Year, people across the country eatglutinous rice dishBecause our fathers think that they have the effect of "destroying" insects, eliminating parasites harmful to the human body.Glutinous rice wine is an indispensable dish in the offering of Doan Ngo Tet in the North.Glutinous rice glutinous rice is not always grown and not all cases make sticky rice especially delicious.The delicious yellow flower sticky rice must be the whole sticky rice grain, round, uniformly colored, so that the rice is delicious.
Glutinous rice wine is also very popular in the North.Glutinous rice wine when eating sweet and spicy sweetness spreads to the stomach to create a pleasant refreshing feeling.
Gio cake (ash cake)
Gio cake is considered as a convergence of the quintessence of heaven and earth because of the selection of ingredients and very meticulous processing process.The chosen rice must be the most fragrant, fragrant, evenly fragrant rice.Gio water to soak the cake is made from coal hours obtained after burning some herbs, then will add a little clear lime water.
No one can resist the gio cakes with iridescent amber, transparent and flexible.When dipping gio with sweet molasses, you will feel like there is an extremely delicious concert in your mouth.According to the ancient grandparents, the boiled rice in the leaves will absorb the characteristics of plants, which has the effect of dissipating disease in people, and cooling in the hot weather in May.
The tray of Tet holiday in the Central region
Rice wine
Central rice wineMade from traditional fermentation method.Central rice wine has a small pieces of square.To have whole sticky rice, sweet aromatic, need to choose old white goose sticky rice, clean, soaked in water for 8 hours.Especially, the sticky rice is steamed twice to soften the sticky rice from the inside out.
When drinking people add ice to the cup, eating both glutinous rice and water will be very delicious.Central glutinous rice is a common refreshing drink of the people here.
Duck meat
The reason is that duck meat is not pork, beef and chicken because the Vietnamese people believe that duck meat is cool and eaten will make the body cool all year.According to the old concept, on 5/5 lunar calendar is often hot days.Besides, duck meat is also considered to be able to supplement blood, help the digestive system healthier.In addition, there is another reason that in May onwards, the duck starts in the season so it is fat and more fragrant.
Millet
Ke tea is a particularly familiar dish for Hue people.The time of the Lunar New Year is also the time when the season is in the season, so the people of Hue often make millet tea to offer their grandparents and ancestors.Besides, this is also a familiar dish in the tray of offerings to the Doan Ngo New Year of the Quang Nam people.
The tray offered to the Southern Lunar New Year
Rice wine
In the southern provinces, rice and wine do not leave but the balls are rounded before incubation.Wine smells, people often add sugar water.The Southern people prefer to eat rice with sticky rice like sticky rice in the North.
Pancake
This is a cake made from glutinous rice, a traditional Chinese dish on Doan Ngo New Year.The cake is similar to the ash cake but a little bigger, the cake is made from glutinous rice and stuffed with many types of fillings, then wrapped in the leaves and cooked by boiling or steaming.Ba Trang cake can be wrapped with bamboo leaves, lotus leaves, banana leaves ... Each type of leaf will bring a unique aroma and taste for the cake.
Water drift tea
Southern drift tea are large round tea balls made from white sticky rice flour, inside are fragrant green beans.Tea drifting water is served with ginger sugar and coconut milk.When you eat, add a little crushed ginger and sesame to eat with it will be very delicious.According to folk concepts, water drifting tea is made from glutinous rice, so this dish is also capable of killing insects well.
In addition to the above dishes, the offering of Doan Ngo New Year must also have enough incense, flowers, votive, betel nut, fruit ... Fruit chosen by families on this day are summer fruits, fresh and sour taste such as plums, peaches, litchi, rambutan, mango, watermelon ...
According to cultural researcher Nguyen Hung Vi, the Lunar New Year was conducted to worship at the Horse hour (12 noon) on 5/5 lunar calendar.Because, Doan Nghia started, Ngo was the period from 11h to 13h.
Wish you prepare the beautiful offerings of Doan Ngo Tet!