The Holy Land of Vietnam Studies

Being a “pubescent girl” Cô Kí has become a concubine of a clerk and had died “on the first day of the new year.

The teachers, scholars, mandarins who don’t touch the earth but only touch the paper and pen have to choose a propitious day to write.

The recelebration of Tết also bears the meaning that, as the first time everybody were not present, people recelebrate it a second time to have everybody at home.

In the last days of the year, some old people dare not stay at home and go to pagodas or temples. They wait there until the new year’s eve (the transitional hour) to go back home.

In the last days of the year, some old people dare not stay at home and go to pagodas or temples. They wait there until the new year’s eve (the transitional hour) to go back home.

According to the lunar calendar (chinese calendar), the 23rd of the last lunar month i.e. the 12th lunar month is the holiday in which the Kitchen God flies to Heaven to attend the Emperor of Jade’s audience.

The Kitchen God’s Petition is a type of folklore, using the lampoonery style and used for lampooning and reflecting the social insecurities that have occurred in the year that has just gone by.

According to an old tale, the story of the Kitchen God involves three persons, two men and a woman.

The Genius of the kitchen has several names: King of the kitchen, king of the tripod.