Although we have many customs during Tet, when talking about Tet, children will often think of two things, which are wearing new clothes and receiving lucky money. Over the years, the form of lucky money has also changed a lot, adults pay more and more attention to the "quality" of lucky money envelopes, unintentionally affecting the thinking of children.
Talking about this, Master Nguyen Hieu Tin affirmed: "According to the general rule, we cannot demand that Tet today must be exactly the same as Tet in the past, because all values depend on 3 factors: space, time and subject".
Master Nguyen Hieu Tin shares about "Tet flavor", Tet flavor in the wind, like a small book that will contribute to spreading Tet culture
Readers asked the author of the book many questions about Tet and Vietnamese Tet culture.
Representative of May Thong Dong - the organizing unit received the calligraphy work donated by author Nguyen Hieu Tin
The space of Tet in the past was a traditional cultural space, with the nature of the village, which was agricultural . Tet today has shifted from village to urban culture. At the same time, time and subjects have completely changed, with the thinking of young people being much different from that of their grandparents. It is the shift of industrial culture that has created a culture with a materialistic, market-oriented nature more and more than before.
This is also the reason why lucky money gradually deviates from its original nature. The original meaning of the word "lucky money" is "profit", which means to represent and symbolize the fortune of the new year. Therefore, lucky money envelopes are often red, implying wishes for good luck, and lucky money is also given in red bills, with little attention paid to the face value. This is in contrast to today.
If we understand the original meaning of lucky money, we will have a more appropriate way of behaving and gradually regain the beauty of the culture of giving lucky money on Tet. Accordingly, young people can also partly remove the unnecessary burden of "lucky money", which is a beautiful traditional custom.
Young people with new work by author Nguyen Hieu Tin
Want to restore the old Tet
Despite such changes, in recent years it is clear that young people have begun to want to restore the old Tet flavor. For example, they learn more about customs, traditional activities, typical Tet dishes, as well as recreating the Tet cultural space, home decoration, and offering respectful offerings...
Right in the urban area, we can easily see models of traditional Tet space restoration, as a way to remind, evoke memories, nostalgia about the extremely unique traditional culture of our own nation. That is a very encouraging signal. In the middle of the modern urban area, there is the ancient beauty of our ancestors, where we, especially the young people, feel happy, joyfully enjoying the flavor of Tet.
Sharing at the exchange, Master Nguyen Hieu Tin said that creating many activities that are both Tet-inspired and suitable for the young generation in a widespread way will contribute to spreading the meaning of Tet more practically, helping young people not to be "bored" with Tet every time they think about it. As for the author, on every Tet occasion, besides activities with his family, he often does work that is more in line with his strengths such as: writing Tet newspapers, writing calligraphy to give as gifts, making and enjoying spring tea, or more quietly, spending more time reading books.
Master Nguyen Hieu Tin gives calligraphy to readers
Writer - journalist Luu Dinh Long (right) presents flowers to congratulate author Nguyen Hieu Tin
It can be said that each Tet custom is a message from the past sent to the present and oriented to the future, from ancestors sending to descendants good customs, containing moral values, creating family traditions, also contributing to the flow of Vietnamese culture past and present. There must be new, there must be old. The old is the foundation of the new. Recalling the old Tet customs to be aware of developing new activities, to be able to review the past to learn the new, to use the past to understand the present and harmonize the past and present to help enrich spiritual life.
With the same thought, Master Nguyen Hieu Tin has distilled and published the book Tet flavor, Vietnamese soul , revolving around customs, hobbies, flavors, and spring atmosphere, as a small contribution to Tet activities in the bustling atmosphere welcoming the new year.
Tet flavor, Vietnamese soul consists of 128 pages, size 18 x 26cm, printed in 4 elegant colors on couche paper, including rich content such as Tet parallel sentences, the hobby of playing with apricot blossoms, spring calligraphy, Tet paintings, the flavor of spring tea, the incense of Tet, the hobby of playing chess, ornamental flowers, enjoying stones, Ong Dia happy in spring ... All are explored and interpreted by the author to help readers better understand the Tet flavor and the soul of Vietnamese people in the depth of culture.
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