Tag: New Year’s Eve ceremony

The end of the year is a time brimming with traditional rituals and offerings, deeply rooted in Vietnamese culture. It is essential to understand the significance of these practices and their meaning.

The Vietnamese tradition of offering a farewell to the old year and welcoming the new one is celebrated with an ancestral worship ritual called the New Year's Eve Ceremony. This ceremony, also known as the "Ceremony of Dismissing the Old Age," takes place on the eve of the Lunar New Year, around 11 p.m. on the 30th of the twelfth lunar month. It is a time when families bid farewell to the passing year and invite their ancestors to join them in welcoming the arrival of a prosperous and fortunate new year.