It’s Tet festival in the North. The Tet five-fruit tray plays an irreplaceable role in Vietnamese families. The five-fruit tray is placed next to “chung” cakes and a plate of steamed momordica sticky rice on the ancestral altar. Five kinds of fruit with different colors and shapes create a lively painting.
Banana or finger citron means protection. Pomelo or watermelon with round shape reveals a prosperous and lucky New Year. Persimmon and mandarin orange with impressive colors symbol the success.
The five-fruit tray adds more beautiful colors to the ancestral altar on Tet days. Each part of the country has Tet specialities. For example, Southern people make “tet” cake (similar to “chung” cake in the North) and place watermelon on the ancestral altar.
Boiled chicken and steamed momordica sticky rice indispensable on the offering food tray. It is said that the red color of momordica will bring good luck to every family in the New Year.
On New Year's Day, in the city or in the countryside, rich or poor, on the ancestral altar almost every home displays a tray of five fruits, and tries to show both beautiful and implied wishes. of the landlord.
Called the five fruits, but no one actually specified what kind of fruit that depending on local characteristics with climate, produce and the concept of which people choose different fruits to display five fruit tray. . The first is the green banana - corresponding to the carnival. The second is the golden pomelo - symbolizes the shoulders should be placed in the middle, in the banana. Next, the other three fruits are red with fire, such as chili, orange, pomegranate ...; white with a needle like a whip, peach; black as the plum, plum pink.
Although each region is different, but in the middle, tray five fruits on the altar Tet is still the convergence of the fruit, the tree, the national culture and the wish of peace, security, enough of the people of Viet .
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Ngày Tết, cho dù ở thành thị hay thôn quê, giàu sang hay nghèo khó, trên bàn thờ tổ tiên hầu như nhà nào cũng trưng một mâm ngũ quả, và cố thể hiện sao cho vừa đẹp mắt vừa hàm ý những điều ước nguyện của gia chủ.
Gọi là ngũ quả nhưng thật ra chẳng ai rõ quy định là những loại quả gì mà tùy từng địa phương với đặc trưng về khí hậu, sản vật và quan niệm riêng mà người ta chọn ra các loại quả khác nhau để bày mâm ngũ quả. Đầu tiên là chuối xanh - ứng với hành mộc. Thứ hai là quả bưởi chín vàng - tượng trưng hành thổ nên được đặt ở giữa, trong lòng nải chuối. Tiếp theo, ba loại quả khác có các màu đỏ ứng với hành hỏa như ớt, cam chín, lựu…; màu trắng ứng với hành kim như roi, đào; màu đen ứng với hành thủy như mận, hồng xiêm.
Tuy mỗi miền mỗi khác, nhưng tựu trung, mâm ngũ quả trên bàn thờ ngày Tết vẫn là nơi hội tụ của hồn quả, hương cây, của nếp văn hóa dân tộc và của ý nguyện cầu hòa, an, đủ của người dân Việt.
Tet to anyone that does not like! With me, the moment that made me stir the most is to look at the five fruits with many attractive fruit just laid on the ancestral altar.Moi five beautiful new, delicious eyes how! All the fruits are cleverly arranged in a large round white dish. At the bottom, banana herbs incense, covering the disk. The bananas are plentiful, bright yellow, the mummy of each pair is next to each other regularly. In the middle of a banana, sit a big grapefruit like a bowl of soup, strain with green skin mixed yellow fresh. At the stem, two leaves spread like two ears look funny. The grapefruit side is the na ripe to open, open dozens of "eyes" look around dazzle look. Between grapefruit, grapefruit is three, four mango sand grasping the adult hand with prominent "blue" coat yellow speckled attractive.Above all, the grapes glide down the fruits in the tray. The grapes are reddish, slightly more sharp than the marbles, stretched, glossy, look like new crave. The aroma of the mixed fruits mixed with incense stick spread all over the house to make the spring air more cozy, solemn. Both fresh fruit tray more fresh, more brilliant under the neon light neutrals.Started five fruit tray that I have no eye brow. Emotion, rebirth, emotion is more love than their ancestors, parents.
