During Tet everyone who can leave the city, the Vietnamese go home to their towns and villages and relatives, the foreigners go on vacation somewhere warm. Almost everything shuts down, only a few places in the Old Quarters catering for tourists remain open, and here and there a small street stall outside of one of the many pagodas where you have to go to ask for a prosperous, happy and healthy year. And burn some insence and money. Of course, we did it all.
It is not only at Tet you have to burn money, but also on other special moon calendar days. Outside your house or your shop or business. As the more you burn, the more prosperous you will become, the fires sometimes get quite big. In our friends' apartment building there were signs in the lobby asking people to please not burn money inside the apartments...
It is not only at Tet you have to burn money, but also on other special moon calendar days. Outside your house or your shop or business. As the more you burn, the more prosperous you will become, the fires sometimes get quite big. In our friends' apartment building there were signs in the lobby asking people to please not burn money inside the apartments...
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