Doan Ngo Tet is a traditional Tet holiday in some East Asian countries such as Vietnam, Japan, China... In Vietnam, Doan Ngo Tet is also known by the popular name of "pests and insect death day".
In Vietnam, people have a custom of celebrating Doan Ngo Tet on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month every year. This is a period of prolonged hot weather, with many pests developing.
Worship before the Go tree
According to the whole book of vows, the Lunar New Year should be worshiped in the right Horse (12 noon on 5.5 lunar calendar). If you cannot worship on time, people just need to burn incense, worship in the morning, should not exceed the Horse.
Notes when offering
Do not eat before offering but wait until after offering, the whole family will gather at the feast.
Some foods are often found on offerings such as sticky rice, sticky rice, asphalt cake, lotus seeds, sour fruits...
Pay attention to your activities
To avoid being risky, people have long practiced traditional customs such as: not throwing away messy shoes (because in Chinese, shoes are " cause", avoiding dropping or spending money on unnecessary things, not buying items with strange shapes because they may encounter difficult transportation...
Many people also think that they should avoid dropping money on a bad New Year's Day because at that time they have lost their fortune, causing luck to decline.
Avoid going to places with strong winds and sounds
On Doan Ngo New Year's Day, you should avoid stopping in gloomy, hazy places such as cemeteries... because it can affect your health.
In fact, these are places that contain many pathogens, moreover, Doan Ngo Tet often coincides with or is close to the Lunar New Year - the hottest time of the year, so disease-causing microorganisms develop very strongly.
Eating habits
In some regions, adults wake up not to put their feet on the ground but have to show off their mouths 3 times to clean up pests, then eat a boiled duck egg.
On this occasion, with the desire to ward off bad luck, many people will bathe with water boiled with natural leaves such as perilla leaves, dried pork floss, lemongrass leaves... The aroma of natural leaves also brings a feeling of comfort, excitement, and purification of the body.
According to traditional beliefs, people eating fruit and sticky rice wine on September 5 is a way to kill insects. On Doan Ngo day, you have to clean your mouth 3 times to clean the pests, eat a bowl of wine to make the pests sick, then eat fruit to make the dead pests sick.
