For the long time in Vietnam, on the last day of every lunar year, an announcing cult (called Cúng Tiên Thường), is performed to invite the dead forefathers to return
home to celebrate Tet holidays with their families. All family members visit their ancestors’
graves, they clean and decorate the graves, in the same manner that the livings clean and
decorate their houses to welcome the New Year. Beside a five-fruit tray and beautiful flowers will be put on ancestral altar, offered to the gods and ancestor as well as express wishes
of the whole family about a new year with luck, health and prosperity , sweet soup and cake
are indispensable offering. In addition, harvest festival or village communal worshipping
, sweet soup are often given for villager after finishing workshipping act. Nowadays, sweet
soup is served as dessert in buffet party or formal occasion. Mild sweet flavour of sweet
soup dispels blistering and stifling in hot summer days.
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