VIETNAMESE SUPERSTITIONS AND TRADITIONS

First of all, every Vietnamese family is superstitious. The Vietnamese attach great importance to two traditional family obligations: to care for their parents in their old age and to worship them after death. So in each Vietnamese family has at least altar on which there are the pictures of their ancestors. Family members worship their ancestor, because they think parents after death will go to live in another world and this altar is the place where the ancestors’ soul live in. So every day, Vietnamese people not only lay the table for meal but they also lay the food on the altar; they believe that those ancestors will have a meal with them. Furthermore, the superstition of praying ancestors’ soul is the most common one

The most superstitious problem in Vietnamese society is religions’ superstition. There are many religious in Viet Nam such as: Buddhism, Cao Đài, Hòa Hảo. Those religions are 3 major religions in Viet Nam. You may be familiar with Buddhism, because Buddhism is the biggest religion on the world. Cao Đài and Hòa Hảo are two Vietnamese religions. The Hòa Hảo religious sects get its name from a village in the Thất Sơn mountain range of Châu Đốc province where is my hometown. This village is the birthplace of Huynh Phu So, the founder of the religion. This religion is considered to be the poor man’s dream. it is an offshoot of Buddhism with out all the expense of that religion. Elaborate pagodas were unnecessary. There was also no necessity for fancy rituals or large numbers of priests in order to worship God. Internal faith is more important than external experiences or ceremonies. In essence, he said, "It is better to pray with a pure heart before the family altar than to perform a lot of gaudy ceremonies in a pagoda with an evil heart. “Offerings were approved of for Buddha, one’s ancestors, and for national heroes, but not for other spirits. Elaborate and costly funerals which caused great impoverishment for the living were not desirable. Mr. So taught that it was better to do good things for people while they were living than after they died. Cao Dai is an attempt to create a perfect synthesis of world religions. It is a combination of Christianity, Buddhism , Islam, Confucianism, Hinduism, Geniism, and Taoism. Established in the Southern regions of Vietnam in the early 1920's, the religion was officially codified in 1926. The functioning center of Cao Daism is located in the Tay Ninh province. Cao Dai literally means high tower or palace, a metaphor for the spender of spiritu

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Viet Nam, Giao Thừa, Nam Vietnamese, God Internal, , Chúa Xứ, Huynh Phu, Cao Dai, Cao Daism, Kitchen God, viet nam, giao thừa, hòa hảo, lunar calendar, chúa xứ, bà chúa xứ, bà chúa, viet nam asian, family obligations, traditional family, kitchen god, family altar, cao Đài hòa, literally meaning fete, super natural power,