Under The Green Moss
Have you ever wondered how our great grandparents celebrated Lunar new year? Why did they affix a seal on paper at the beginning of the year; and what is the meaning of a rite called “Tru tich”?
To welcome the Monkey Year 2016, we are glad to release our first video “Celebrate Tet Like Our Great Grandparents”.
The video is the very first fruit of labor of the members who, despite their inexperience, have tried their best to find sources and collect patterns from real life in order to reconstitute visually the Vietnamese Tet during the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. However, traditional practices vary according to region and period; therefore, what are portrayed in the clip are simply the common archetypes of celebrations, which may not demonstrate the variety of the way Vietnamese people celebrate Tet.
We will appreciate your giving us reviews and constructive criticism, so that together, we can create a more diversified perspective on our great grandparents’ practices in Tet. We hope this video will help brighten up your Tet!
There was a funny story during the making of our video when I saw the wings on the back of Hanh khien (the deity who watches the Earth each year). At that time, I wondered if that was the result of the artist’s personal creativity...
Today, the Kitchen Gods will return to heaven to report the activities of every household to the Jade Emperor, which tells us that this year is going to an end.
Once upon a time, humans and monsters used to coexist on earth. Monsters, with their superior strength, seized all of the land and forced humans to work for them in rice fields.