Trung Thap Tet (Trung Cuu Tet) 2023

What is October 10th? What is the meaning and origin of Trung Thap Tet ? Join us to find out now to see what's special about this day.

What is Trung Thap Tet?

Trung Thap Tet (Trung Cuu Tet or Trung Duong Tet) is also known as Doctor's Day, New Rice Tet or according to Buddhist custom, it will be called Ha Nguyen Tet (Thuong Nguyen Tet is the full moon day of the first lunar month). Trung Thap Tet will be held on the 10th day of the 10th lunar month every year (some regions will celebrate it on October 15th or 31st of the 10th lunar month).

Origin of Trung Thap Tet

• According to the book Pharmacy Ceremony, the 10th day of the 10th lunar month is Doctor's Day. Because at this time, precious medicinal plants will become the best, they will converge the yin and yang energy, and will form the four seasons (Spring - Summer - Autumn - Winter).
• According to famous cultural researcher, Phan Ke Binh: "On that Tet ( the 10th day of the 10th lunar month), mostly mediums and physicians eat it. But back home in the countryside, there are many places to eat, some of them are very big, like in the Hoai district..." (collected).
• According to the beliefs of people in rural areas of Vietnam, Trung Thap Tet is a day to celebrate new rice. After the harvest season, people often make banh day and boil sweet soup to offer to the ancestral altar to thank heaven, earth, gods, and ancestors for giving them a good harvest.
• For Mr. Dong and Ms. Cot (people with special abilities, who can lend their bodies to gods, demons, and souls of the dead to communicate with the living), this is also an important holiday. and they will make a lavish table both to worship and to entertain their disciples and friends.

Trung Thap Tet is also known as Doctor's Day

Meaning of Trung Thap Tet

Traditionally, farmers in Vietnam will grow two rice crops a year. One crop will be planted in the spring and the second crop will be planted in the summer. Around the 9th lunar month, when the rice is ripe, people will harvest it and on the 10th or full moon day of the 10th lunar month, people will hold a new rice offering ceremony to celebrate a good harvest.

According to the history of traditional medicine: In the 10th lunar month of every year, the weather clearly transitions from the hot season to the main cold season.

Therefore, it creates extremely favorable conditions for precious medicines to grow quickly and with the best quality, so this day is also considered a New Year for doctors.

People will hold a new rice offering ceremony to celebrate a good harvest

Customs on Trung Thap Tet

Each profession will have different customs on this Tet holiday. Specifically:

• For physicians: They will often go to the forest to pick medicine on this New Year's Day, then come back to celebrate, eat, sing and sing with friends and relatives.
• For farmers: Trung Thap Tet is also considered New Rice Tet. On this day, they will organize making Giay cakes with new rice, cook feasts, and cook braised sweet soup to offer to ancestors and Gods to show their respect.
• For mediums and mediums: They will hold a lavish and solemn feast to worship on this New Year's Day.
• For ethnic minorities in the Northwest region: They will celebrate the New Rice Festival after harvesting rice and corn. They celebrate the new rice festival all month long, and when it starts to rain, they start a new growing season.
• In the Mekong Delta region: They also make banh giay and banh tet to celebrate the bumper harvest on the October 10th Tet holiday.

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