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KINH ETHNIC
kinh ethnic
The Kinh People
Reside
Kinh people reside throughout the province, but most of the population are the plains and cities.
Kinh villages often plant bamboo surrounded, many places have a sturdy village gate. Each village has a family that is a place of general assembly and worship.
Community organization
Economic characteristics
The Kinh people make water fields. In rice cultivation, the Kinh people have traditionally built levees and dug ditches. Gardening, mulberry farming, cattle and poultry farming, river fishing and marine fishing all developed. Pottery was very early on.
Costoms and traditions
COSTOM
Custom is understood as the way of life of a large group, organization or population of organisms formed as a habit in life, production, living recognized and considered as a common convention of all individuals living in that organization, population.
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TRADITION
Customs are rituals of human life that are formed over many generations and are recognized as part of a community`s way of life. Customs are passed on from generation to generation, are not compulsory and vary by population, ethnicity as well as religion.
Costoms and traditions
From the above two concepts, it can be understood that: Custom is the entire habit of human life that is recognized by a community or population and considered as a way of life passed down from generation to generation. Different systems, depending on each locality and different beliefs, customs and habits in each population will have differences with each other.
Some of the factors commonly considered characteristic of Vietnamese culture when viewed from the outside include respect for ancestors, respect for community and family values, handicrafts, hard labor and studiousness. The West also said that important symbols in Vietnamese culture include dragons, turtles, lotus flowers and bamboo.
Some of the characteristic elements of the culture of our nation.
Eating betel nut
Smoking Rustic Tobacco
Drink tea, rubust
Lunar New Year
Mid-Autumn Festival
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Festival
Costom and tradition
Eating betel nut
- Betel nut, multiplies the joy every time guests come to the house to be invited to be betel nut; wedding parties have betel nut plates to share the joy; On holidays and New Year, there are pieces of betel nut to invite strangers to make friends; with people who know a piece of betel nut is a soul mate. The betel nut is also the respect of the next generation to the previous generation through a tray of offerings to ancestors, sacrifices to gods...
- Eating betel nut is a traditional custom of the Vietnamese people. Legend has it since the time of Hung Vuong and is associated with a famous fairy tale: Tale of Betel and Cau. A touching story about brother and sister love. Since then, it has become an indispensable custom in the life of Vietnamese people.
The origins of tea can be traced back more than 4,000 years in China. And the story that is considered as the history of tea is more mythical than true. King Shen Nong, when patrolling the South, accidentally drank a leaf falling in a pot of boiling water to make his spirit happy, so he called it "tea."
Drink tea, rubust
Tea is used by Vietnamese people throughout the year, for life, from street stalls to family teapots or luxury restaurants. Sipping a cup of tea is the beginning of the meetings of soulmates, of the random exchanges to turn from strangers to friends.
Therefore, Vietnamese tea tree has become a plant that originates for emotional communication in daily life, an indispensable drink of Vietnamese people.
Costom And Tradition
- Smoking Rustic Tobacco Culture of Vietnamese people has existed since ancient times and passed from generation to generation
Smoking Rustic Tobacco
- It would be lacking to mention betel nut without mentioning waterpipe tobacco. Most women eat betel nut, while men, tobacco stick with them in times of happiness, sadness, even for the rest of their lives. Waterpipe tobacco is smoked with a pipe, a bowl ... for convenience when away from home, it is smoked with a plow (a cigarette used to smoke while plowing in the fields, so it`s called a plow).
The habit of smoking a pipe is the "prelude" for the reunion and mutual reunion, which can be considered as a cultural feature of the feudal village social class. Rural Vietnam. Before, almost every house had a pipe smoker, once he smoked it, he would definitely get drunk, and then fall in love with it.
Lunar New Year
Lunar New Year (also known as Tet, Tet, Lunar New Year, Traditional New Year or simply Tet) is the most important and meaningful lunar new year holiday in Vietnam.
The annual Lunar New Year usually lasts between 7-8 days at the end of the old year and the first 7 days of the New Year (December 23 to January 7).
Costom and tradition
- What is Lunar New Year?
- How does the time of the Lunar New Year count?
- The origins of the Lunar New Year
How the Lunar New Year originated is still a matter of debate.

Most information is said that the Lunar New Year originated in China and was introduced to Vietnam during the 1000 years of Northern colonial rule. But according to the "Thick Cake" relics, the Vietnamese have been eating Tet since the time of Hung King, that is, before the 1000-year period of the North.
The old Lunar New Year is an opportunity for farmers to pay their respects to the gods such as earth god, rain god, thunder god, water god, sun god,... and pray for a year of favorable rain and wind, good harvest.
- The meaning of Tet.
Costom and tradition
Lunar New Year
Lunar New Year
- Jobs on New Year`s Day
Vietnam (in general) and Kinh people (in particular) have a very rich and diverse culture. Especially traditional festivals such as:
1. Hung Temple Festival - Hung Vuong`s Memorial
2. The Giong Festival
The Giong Festival is held in Phu Dong village, Gia Lam district - Hanoi. This is a traditional festival held to remember and celebrate the feat of the hero Of Saint Job.
The festival officially takes place on the 9th day of the lunar calendar every year.
Hung Vuong Memorial Day became a major holiday of the Vietnamese nation, in memory of the merits of hung kings for their work in building and preserving water. The festival is held annually on the 10th day of the 3rd lunar calendar at Hung Temple - Viet Tri - Phu Tho.
FESTIVAL
4. Go Dong Da Festival
The festival takes place on the 5th day of the Lunar New Year every year. This is a festival held to celebrate the victory and remember the great merit of King Quang Trung.
3. Huong Pagoda Festival
Huong Pagoda Festival or Huong Pagoda Festival is a Vietnamese festival, located in My Duc-Hanoi. In the scenic Area of Huong Son, see the journey to a Land of Buddha - where The Yin Bodhisattva performs. This is a great festival in terms of the number of Buddhists participating in the pilgrimage. This festival lasts from January 6th to the end of the third month of the lunar calendar.
FESTIVAL