On New Year's Day, each house in Vietnam must have cake display on the ancestral altar. Behind the simple cake is a lot of sense of cake.Banh Chung is a familiar dish of Tet in Vietnam but it has ever since or what it means is not everyone knows ..
The cake of the New Year according to our father recalled appeared in the Hung King. It is said that in the new beginning of the new year the king wishes to take the throne for the princes, the message is just that: in the children if anyone has a gift to me (will king) will pass on the throne to the person. The princes find enough of the lacquer, seafood, treasures rare treasures as gifts to the king. Only Lang Liao is the 18th prince has long lost mother did not know which gift to choose.
Traditional Tet holiday cake
Then one night Lang Lieu dreamed the gods come to say, "Heaven and earth have nothing more than a grain of rice, please get the rice into a circle and square symbolize land and heaven, When he was presented to the king, the king was overjoyed and handed the throne to Lang Lieu. Banh chung (cake and thick cake) originated from here.
Meaning
Banh Chung is a traditional dish in the tray of Tet Vietnamese, but not everyone knows the meaning of banh chung. Being Vietnamese, finding the meaning of banh chung is essential. If we do not know, we can find out what the meaning of banh chung is.
Cultural meaning
From the point of view of Chinese culture of the time: Square square cake represents square ground, thick round pie represents the sun. The Vietnamese people were formerly wet rice culture depending on the nature factor so much.These cake biscuity Tet has appeared in the tray of worship for a long time, to express gratitude for the heaven and earth gave. Rain to wind harmony to bumper harvests bring a warm human life. Besides making banh truc Tet also expressed the taste of children with parents, so the custom of using banh chung as gifts to parents from here as well. Accompanying the cake with thick cake, on the fifth day of displaying five fruit tray representing the five elements corresponding birth.
The traditional cake in the Tet holiday, but not everyone knows the meaning of the cake.
Spiritual meaning
On the traditional New Year's Day, the image of family gathering in Banh Chung pot is beautiful and meaningful to all of us. A new year will not be selected without the blue cake of glutinous rice, life despite the chaise and much anxiety, but a rice cake to raise the altar must be sure. Often Vietnamese families have a habit of wrapping cake on the 27th and 28th. This is the end of the year after a hard year preparing for the New Year. This is an opportunity for grandparents and grandchildren to marvel at the glittering atmosphere of spring, Banh Chung is not only meaningful in nutrition but it is the beauty of our nation's spiritual life
The meaning of banh chung (Banh Chung) not only expresses the heart to ancestors, but Banh Chung also symbolizes heaven and earth.
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