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Be grateful to your ancestors

TQO - Offering flowers to the ancestral altar during Tet plays an important role in Vietnamese people's ancestral worship beliefs. People choose flowers to offer on the altar because flowers symbolize beauty, good things and the purest things.

Offering flowers to the ancestral altar on these days shows the homeowner's respect and deep gratitude to the gods and deceased relatives in the family. The flowers displayed on the altar during Tet must be flowers with beautiful names, gentle and long-lasting scents to show respect for superiors and grandparents.

Some typical flowers to display on the altar during Tet include peach blossoms and apricot blossoms. These are two extremely familiar flowers that appear every traditional Tet holiday of the nation. Not only during the Lunar New Year, peach blossoms and apricot blossoms are still used to offer to the ancestral altar. Peach blossoms symbolize prosperity, abundance, peace, happiness and ward off bad luck and evil spirits. Apricot flowers symbolize wealth, glory and luck. Therefore, these are definitely two indispensable flowers to display on the altar at home.

In addition to peach blossoms and apricot blossoms, gerbera flowers are offered to ancestors and gods with the hope of a year of good luck, fortune and good health for the whole family. With colorful flowers and beautiful blooming petals, gerbera flowers are definitely the flowers you should choose to worship at the altar.

White lilies are a suitable flower to worship gods and ancestors on solemn occasions. In addition to white, lilies also come in many other vibrant colors that are also suitable for offering on the altar. White lilies express wishes for prosperity, wealth, and prosperity for the family.

Having strong vitality and long-lasting vitality, yellow chrysanthemums are often chosen for home altars. The image of yellow chrysanthemum petals falling on the altar also represents a year of good luck and fortune for the family.

Hai Yen

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