After my class project of everyone family culture. I learn a lot through this project but after all, there is a strange culture: not to sweep the house in the three day of Tet.
From my mom, this culture start in China. She said it is because the people think that Tet is represent for the year. They think sweep the dust out mean that they are throwing their stuff off the house. So they will lose things throw the year. But I also heard that this culture start from a story. It said that long ago, on the kingdom on the sky, there is a female cooker. The god up there really liked her food. But then he fell in love with a horse keeper. She stole delicious food for that man everyday. One day, the gods know it. They turn them into the broom so they had to walk everyday to paid for what they did. But then the god saw that they work really hard so they gave them 3 "holiday", and it is three day of Tet. So that's why people don't sweep the house in the three day of Tet. My mom also said that in the countryside, people usually put their broom in their front yard. But in the last day before Tet, they put it inside of their house because they think that if the robber steal their broom away in the last day before Tet, they will get robbed all around the year.
So that is all about my research of this culture. Hope that you enjoyed.
i really like your story about Tet, I don't any thing or when Chinese people star to have Tet. Everyone have good tet ,
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I really enjoy your story, too. My family has the same tradition like this but I didn't know this story. But a little bit strange here is My family always keep my house and broom my house cleanly before Tet so We'll have a good Tet as well as a clean house to stay in those 3 days. So, Finally, Thanks for posting!
ReplyDeletenice presentation, i like it, but my mom always cleans my house before the Tet holiday, so in those days, my house will be clean.
ReplyDeleteSo it must very dirty in the Tet holiday if you don't sweep your house :D
ReplyDeleteTraditions don't always have to make sense, but there is always a story behind where they come from.
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