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Vietnamese New year – how is it celebrated in Hoi An?

On Tuesday February 7th, 2017Sunday November 19th, 2017 by Kaśka&Michał Posted in Asia, VietnamTagged 2017, altar, Anbang, ancestors, Banh Tet, beach, cau lau, Chinese, ciasto, colonial, Da Nang, death, dziedzictwo, French, gifts, gio lua, Hoi An, holiday, homestay, karaoke, kleisty ryæ, Kwiatkowski, lampions, lampiony, Light Festival, Lunar calendar, Lunar New year, mandarin, Marble Mountains, Mickey Mouse plant, New Year, ochna integerrima, palenie banknotów, Rok Koguta, Rooster Year, sajgonki, spring rolls, sticky rice, styl kolonialny, style, temple, Tet, tree, UNESCO, vietnamese sausage, Vietnam, Wietnamski Nowy Rok, wishes, world heritage12 Comments

Tet Nguyen Dan (known as ” Tet ”) is the most important Vietnamese holiday. This is the period when the Vietnamese celebrate the Lunar New Year (the date is taken from the lunar calendar). It is a movable feast, which falls at the end of January or in early February – at exactly the same time as the Chinese New Year. This year the Vietnamese have celebrated the New Year on January 28. It is said that the celebration lasts normally 3 days, but in practice we saw it continued up to 1 week and it significantly differed from the typical New Year celebration in Europe. There are no grand balls and parties, it rather resembles the Polish Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, when gifts are handed in to relatives who gather together at a big table covered with lots of nice food. Let’s have a closer look at it then 🙂

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Swastika on marble statues of Buddha in Da Nang! Where does it come from?

On Friday February 3rd, 2017Friday June 29th, 2018 by Kaśka&Michał Posted in Asia, VietnamTagged Am Phu, Buda, Budda, Buddha, carve, cave, cavern, Chinese, cueva, Da Nang, Droga do Raju, hell, Hoi An, Huyen Khong, jaskinia, Marble, motorbike, mountain, Nazi, Ngu Hanh Son, pagoda, Road to Paradise, scooter, sign, signo, simbolo, swastika, swastyka, symbol, temple, Thuy Son4 Comments

Swastika for most of us has been a symbol of Nazi concepts. Germany during the 2nd World War completely usurped this sign and left it with its negative connotation up to present times. Why did we start to wonder whether this symbol has always been associated with nazism? Well, we went to a place called Marble Mountains located near Hoi An in Da Nang and surprisingly we found the sign of swastika on the marble statues of Buddha, and exactly in the center of his chest .. besides, the symbol was also illustrated separately and it was quite big, so it was not difficult to notice it .. at first it seemed abhorrent for us, then later awoke our curosity and we wanted to find out more about it … and dig into the history of the sign..

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