Doan Ngo Tet 2025 falls on Saturday, May 31, 2025. Normally, families worship Doan Ngo Tet at "Ngo" time around 11am - 1pm.
This is the time when the Sun and Earth are closest to each other in the year, a hot, hot time with a lot of sunlight, suitable for killing insects.
Doan Ngo Tet has things to do and things to avoid. In particular, what should be done on Doan Ngo Tet according to Feng Shui expert Nguyen Song Ha is as follows:
Performing the insect destruction ceremony
The ancients believed that the human body, especially the digestive part, often has hidden insects. If not destroyed, it will increase in number and bloom, causing harm to the body. This flood of insects only appears on the 5.5th of the lunar month, so an excretion ceremony must be held on this day.
According to traditional beliefs, pests can be killed by eating food, fruits, and wine on May 5. Northerners often kill pests as soon as they wake up early in the morning and kill them with food, especially sticky rice, banh gio and fruit.
For children, they wake up early in the morning while they are still in bed, feeding them with fruit, a little sticky rice wine, boiled eggs, then go toothbrush to wash their face.
For adults, when waking up, they have to clean their mouths 3 times to clean the pests, then eat a boiled duck egg, then step out of bed to drink a little wine (or eat a bowl of wine) to make the pests drunk, then eat fruit to make the dead pests. This is a method that originated from the ancient people and has been applied to this day.
Carrying out Doan Ngo Lunar New Year worship ceremony
The offerings and offerings for the ancestors on Doan Ngo New Year's Day need to have incense, gold ma, water, sticky rice wine, fruits, plums, kimchi, watermelon, fabric, and bananas. If conditions are met, add the banh gio (also known as banh ash) and lotus seed sweet soup to be even more plump.
Bathe in leaf water from nature
Normally, on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month, after eating rice and wine to kill insects, people will bathe with water boiled with coriander, perilla, gourd, and bamboo leaves.
Because since ancient times, people have thought that bathing in leaves naturally will help the smell escape, have a pleasant, fragrant feeling, making people excited.
Wash your hair, steep fragrant leaves
To fight the hot summer, the ancients often boil leaves such as grapefruit, coriander, perilla, Korea, lemongrass, bamboo, and dried pork floss to bathe and steep, preventing diseases and diseases. In particular, women who wash their hair want black, smooth, long hair.
This is also a treatment method from ancient times, helping the body detoxify, relax and feel excited. On Doan Ngo Tet, you should wash your hair and stir-fry the scented leaves during the day.
