Families go to the market very early to buy enough offerings, preparing for a thoughtful ceremony.

People buy a set of hat, shirt, and shoe papers to worship Kitchen Gods.

Golden carp is indispensable in the worship and release ritual.

Bananas are a hot item at this time.

Customers choose to buy fruit to worship Ong Cong, Ong Tao.

Fresh flowers are indispensable in the Ong Cong, Ong Tao worship ceremony.

Many people choose to buy lean pork paste to worship.

Shops selling red sticky rice and yellow sticky rice are selling very well.

From early morning, people flocked to buy sticky rice.

In the old Nong Tien ferry area on the Minh Xuan ward side, many people were releasing carp early in the morning.

Homeowners worshiped Ong Cong and Ong Tao to pray for a good new year.

This year, the water level of Lo River was low, so the organizers designed a slide to help people release fish easily.

People were guided to release fish into the slide.

The fish slid down the slide gently into the river.