SPRING SCROLLS – Section 1
He often posted a board with two big Chinese characters “Spring Scrolls” at the hut’s door.
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ANCESTRAL ALTAR
Speaking of ancestral altars, Henri Oger showed us a series of sketches of different kinds of altars suited to the rich and the poor.
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The TRAY of FIVE FRUITS
The five fruit tray has become a popular motif expressing the practical content, and at the same time, bearing the folk aesthetic value.
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The ARRIVAL of NEW YEAR
In these last days of the year that work was of ever greater significance as it cleaned and dolled up the house to make it ever more pleasant than usual in anticipation of the Lunar New Year Festival.
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In SOUTHERN PART of the COUNTRY: a HOST of PARALLEL CONCERNS
However, apart from the shared traditions, the people living in Southern Vietnam provinces and in the Central Highlands or the people who had emigrated to Vietnam representing a wide variety of ethnic groups also had many noteworthy traits of their own.
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Concerns of PROVIDENT PEOPLE – CONCERN for DEBT PAYMENT
Perhaps Henri Oger did not see such a type of obstinate people but he witnessed judicious debtors who went to ask for a postponement of debt payment with a hired woman carrying a tray with a pig head on it.
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Concerns of PROVIDENT PEOPLE – CONCERNS for TIES of GRATITUDE
In fact, preparation for the Lunar New Year Festival involves not only the care for a lot of things as seen in everyday life but also the promotion of gratitude ties and relations.
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Concerns of PROVIDENT PEOPLE – Concerns for MARKETING – Section 2
In the countryside of North Vietnam, until the days very close to Tết – 29th or 30th day of the last lunar month the close-to-Tết market days still have sellers who look hurried but the atmosphere is not as bustling as the days before.
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Concerns of PROVIDENT PEOPLE – Concerns for MARKETING – Section 1
During year end days when the urban streets become ever more animated and bustling the markets grow ever more crowded. A folk saying goes: “Crowded like a Tết market !”.
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LUNAR NEW YEAR FESTIVAL (Major Festival)
The Vietnamese’s grand festival or Lunar New Year Festival (Tết) falls on the 1st day of the first month (Lunar calendar) and is a major traditional festival of the entire Vietnamese people.
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