Picking the first spring buds - please don't overdo it

(Baonghean.vn) - Entering the new year, each person and each family has activities symbolizing fortune and wishes for a happy spring. The first day of Tet - the beginning of spring - is also the moment when the universe turns, all things, plants and trees after a long, gloomy winter suddenly welcome the new spring, sprouting and blooming. No one knows when the custom of celebrating the new spring began with many activities, including the habit of asking for and picking luck at the beginning of the new year.

Going to pagodas and temples at the beginning of the year to pray for good fortune and picking lucky branches from trees and bringing them home is a beautiful cultural practice, praying for a year of good fortune for your family. However, many people have shown excessive picking behavior, leading to a lack of culture.

According to the concept of these people, the bigger the branch, the more fortune, so any tree located in a temple, pagoda, or an agency that holds money, government, or public power such as the treasury, bank, People's Committee, tax, finance, etc., then just go there to pick fortune, ask for fortune. From this mechanical, unreasonable concept, many people have turned from picking fortune, asking for fortune into... using knives to cut branches, cut trees to get fortune. A few years ago, there were trees planted in the area of ​​the above agencies, on the 30th of Tet, they were still green and full of branches, but after a "stormy" New Year's Eve, on the morning of the 1st, they were severely damaged, the trees were in tatters. Many agencies and units have assigned personnel to be on duty to protect the trees, but they still cannot stop this "luck picking" action.



There needs to be greater awareness in protecting the city's green tree system.

From the concept of mechanically picking spring buds to playing with stone peach trees in the spring, they are also contributing to the destruction of a healthy living environment. If picking spring buds at the New Year's Eve excessively destroys the green tree system in the city, the sacred temple area, then the hobby of playing with stone peach trees, pale peach trees, and Mong peach trees during Tet also destroys the ecological environment of the upstream forest area. There are stone peach branches that sell for tens of millions of dong, especially beautiful, mossy, ancient branches with buds, flowers, and even fruit, the selling price is pushed up to 50 million dong/branch.



There must be solutions to protect and preserve stone peach trees and ancient peach trees in the Western region.

Because of the huge economic benefits, a month before the traditional Tet holiday, the hunt for peach trees in the Western forests began. As a natural tree in the forest, whenever they find one, the "digging bandits" immediately cut it down without mercy. To have such a valuable peach tree, it must have lived for decades at an altitude of thousands of meters covered in fog all year round, and suddenly the roots are bare. From the full moon of December, going up the roads to the West, we can easily see on the vehicles going downstream loaded with peach trees, branches of peach trees, and peach blossoms.



For profit, many people have cut down peach trees to sell.

Thus, from playing with peach blossoms and apricot blossoms on Tet holiday, to picking and asking for luck in the Spring, which are beautiful cultural features, are gradually becoming excessive, destroying the ecological environment as well as the green lung system of the City and urban areas. When celebrating Tet and picking luck, we need to be more aware to protect the green tree system and the environment, so that the happy days of spring and Tet holiday are complete./.

Hong Son