Banh Chung Tet
In today's feast to welcome spring, the squarish green banh chung reminds us the legend rice cake symbolizes thick conception of the universe of the ancient Vietnamese.
Festival couplets characterize traditional "fat meat, pickled onions, red couplets. Trees Miraculous, green cake" had accompanied many generations of people Vietnam we each spring.
Chung cake made from glutinous rice raw material, green beans, pork and wrapped in leaves line ... Cake made in the traditional Lunar New Year of the Vietnamese people and on the first day of lunar March 10 (anniversary Hung king).
Those who experienced the Tet old (40-50 years of the last century) often miss the traditional New Year cakes with selected distilled from grain sticky gaudy yellow flower, green beans, from leaf dong to the bamboo stalks.
For those who experienced the Tet in the war, and even the remaining years of the subsidy period, pot pie recall their distillation unforgettable memories a difficult time, lacking.
Today, for the young people born in the second half of the 80s of XX century, continue cooking banh chung Tet seems only a formality. 9X live in big cities do not seem to get the feel tingle Eve gathered around the pot warm earth cake with family.
Currently, rice cakes for the New Year are bought in supermarkets, shops or via service providers. In the countryside, taste Tet still feel somewhat over pot banh chung Tet.
The atmosphere on New Year's now no longer see the scene of her sister busy Tet days, yet the line washing, soak rice or treat any park, scene kids eager faces watching cakes parents, young and old scenes baby looks big pot sit overnight banh chung, outdoor cold frost, chilly air did not drown out around the fire warm pink.
For many generations, banh chung is the joy of the New Year reunion, reunion. The beautiful cake, thick, square the edges are dedicated to the display table ancestor worship, small cake package for children as the first gift ...
The tradition is still there, but it seemed there was little left intact, tools to cook banh chung today in some places, there is room to be replaced with a pressure cooker or fire station. Anyway, New Year, spring, photos of banh chung still remind each of us of the value of traditional ethnic ...
Nowadays, these materials banh chung same: still sticky rice, green beans, meat, leaves line. Cake'd get good ingredients prepared very carefully, thoroughly soaked rice treat, green beans cooked to furniture, including lean meat, packaging, grease, enough spice marinated, boiled right package to new gear finishing green.
For pie beautiful square, "nine ren" is at right package "passed in rice, rice in leaf" hand tight package, no need to press the cake was to be a long, piece of cake after the park's cut, lean always balance in all parts. Tet and photos of the green cake was traditional beauty Vietnamese ethnic culture.
Through-shaped rice cake thick, can not help but think of the meaning of the word "round square" in our language.
Derived from the original concept of birth, our ancestors were smart choice byproducts two symbol used in the worship of heaven and earth, he thought she was referring to blend the two form "hollow" and "special", "square" and "round".
Although various subjects like "heaven" and "earth", "man" and "woman", we can and must work together under the perhaps "heaven and earth all things sexual maturity" as god's teachings for Lang Lieu.
"Probably round square," which tell the good of the spouses and meaning in relationships like Nguyen Du's poems: "A square circle sacred know or not?", Or the "square the circle Hundred years / Right probe until the source river creek ".
Banh chung Tet or Tet reminiscent reminiscent of the Earth Cakes? Perhaps, the blend that has become a cultural symbol of ethnic Vietnamese - Banh chung Tet represents.
Thus, in all, the New Year is the memory of people and have proof bread. Therefore, preparations Earth Cakes whenever Tet was a beautiful cultural traditions of Vietnam.
Today's modern life but have busier, more affluent, the deep cultural traditions of banh chung Tet still needed leave to young people.
Should, banh chung Tet open package, in addition to the traditional culinary sense to increase protection of cultural heritage to cherish and preserve for future generations.
In today's feast to welcome spring, the squarish green banh chung reminds us the legend rice cake symbolizes thick conception of the universe of the ancient Vietnamese.
Festival couplets characterize traditional "fat meat, pickled onions, red couplets. Trees Miraculous, green cake" had accompanied many generations of people Vietnam we each spring.
Chung cake made from glutinous rice raw material, green beans, pork and wrapped in leaves line ... Cake made in the traditional Lunar New Year of the Vietnamese people and on the first day of lunar March 10 (anniversary Hung king).
Those who experienced the Tet old (40-50 years of the last century) often miss the traditional New Year cakes with selected distilled from grain sticky gaudy yellow flower, green beans, from leaf dong to the bamboo stalks.
For those who experienced the Tet in the war, and even the remaining years of the subsidy period, pot pie recall their distillation unforgettable memories a difficult time, lacking.
Today, for the young people born in the second half of the 80s of XX century, continue cooking banh chung Tet seems only a formality. 9X live in big cities do not seem to get the feel tingle Eve gathered around the pot warm earth cake with family.
Currently, rice cakes for the New Year are bought in supermarkets, shops or via service providers. In the countryside, taste Tet still feel somewhat over pot banh chung Tet.
The atmosphere on New Year's now no longer see the scene of her sister busy Tet days, yet the line washing, soak rice or treat any park, scene kids eager faces watching cakes parents, young and old scenes baby looks big pot sit overnight banh chung, outdoor cold frost, chilly air did not drown out around the fire warm pink.
For many generations, banh chung is the joy of the New Year reunion, reunion. The beautiful cake, thick, square the edges are dedicated to the display table ancestor worship, small cake package for children as the first gift ...
The tradition is still there, but it seemed there was little left intact, tools to cook banh chung today in some places, there is room to be replaced with a pressure cooker or fire station. Anyway, New Year, spring, photos of banh chung still remind each of us of the value of traditional ethnic ...
Nowadays, these materials banh chung same: still sticky rice, green beans, meat, leaves line. Cake'd get good ingredients prepared very carefully, thoroughly soaked rice treat, green beans cooked to furniture, including lean meat, packaging, grease, enough spice marinated, boiled right package to new gear finishing green.
For pie beautiful square, "nine ren" is at right package "passed in rice, rice in leaf" hand tight package, no need to press the cake was to be a long, piece of cake after the park's cut, lean always balance in all parts. Tet and photos of the green cake was traditional beauty Vietnamese ethnic culture.
Through-shaped rice cake thick, can not help but think of the meaning of the word "round square" in our language.
Derived from the original concept of birth, our ancestors were smart choice byproducts two symbol used in the worship of heaven and earth, he thought she was referring to blend the two form "hollow" and "special", "square" and "round".
Although various subjects like "heaven" and "earth", "man" and "woman", we can and must work together under the perhaps "heaven and earth all things sexual maturity" as god's teachings for Lang Lieu.
"Probably round square," which tell the good of the spouses and meaning in relationships like Nguyen Du's poems: "A square circle sacred know or not?", Or the "square the circle Hundred years / Right probe until the source river creek ".
Banh chung Tet or Tet reminiscent reminiscent of the Earth Cakes? Perhaps, the blend that has become a cultural symbol of ethnic Vietnamese - Banh chung Tet represents.
Thus, in all, the New Year is the memory of people and have proof bread. Therefore, preparations Earth Cakes whenever Tet was a beautiful cultural traditions of Vietnam.
Today's modern life but have busier, more affluent, the deep cultural traditions of banh chung Tet still needed leave to young people.
Should, banh chung Tet open package, in addition to the traditional culinary sense to increase protection of cultural heritage to cherish and preserve for future generations.
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