Hobby of flowers and ornamental plants on Tet holiday

(Baonghean) -A year has passed, no matter how busy, Vietnamese people always look forward to Tet with the most sacred and solemn meaning. Eating and resting during Tet is always associated with enjoying Tet. Therefore, the hobby of growing flowers and ornamental plants during Tet has become an art, a beauty associated with the national cultural identity.

In the harmonious atmosphere, the brilliant spring colors, the meaning of flowers, branches, and potted plants bring to people vibrant vitality, restlessness, and anticipation... of the most beautiful things of a new year.

When Tet comes, people go to the market to shop for Tet and do not forget to bring home some flowers or ornamental plants. When Tet comes, every family is busy preparing a beautiful vase of flowers. On the altar of ancestors, in addition to the tray of five fruits with bright colors, there is also a vase of flowers placed in the most solemn position. All of these combine to create a cozy, sacred atmosphere to welcome Spring.

When talking about the hobby of playing with flowers and ornamental plants during Tet, people cannot help but mention the Tet flower market. The flower market only opens once a year, usually from the 23rd to the 30th or 31st of December, regardless of day or night, until New Year's Eve, signaling the coming of spring.

In Vinh City, flower markets are held in many places, flower growers and traders inside and outside the province compete to bring flowers to sell. The flower market is bustling, many types of flowers compete to show their colors such as peach, yellow apricot, chrysanthemum, marigold, orchid, dahlia, cactus, kumquat, etc.

The Tet flower market is not only a simple buying and selling activity but also a traditional cultural feature of the nation. This is also an opportunity for people to exchange and meet each other. The hobby of playing with flowers and ornamental plants on Tet shows the sophistication of the Vietnamese soul, but also has the meaning: Spring will bring fortune to people. There are people who go to the flower market just to enjoy, to admire the Tet atmosphere. Especially in the evenings, when the weather is cold, people go to the flower market to admire and choose.

In the North and Central regions, with the cold winter weather, a fresh peach blossom branch not only makes the house more beautiful and cozy, but also brings luck for the whole year.

Peach trees are often grown in the North and there are many types of peach trees. Peach trees with deep pink color and many flowers are used to decorate the trees during Tet. Peach trees with light pink flowers also have many flowers and are often grown for their fruit. Peach trees with white flowers have fewer flowers and are relatively difficult to grow. These types of peach trees all have double flowers.

Nhat Tan peach tree, small tree, small and colorful flowers, dark red color is often planted in pots. Southern yellow apricot is also a flower symbolizing spring. Yellow color shows the warmth, confidence and dynamism of Southern people. Yellow flowers, fragrant, shy and discreet. Yellow apricot also has a variety that after flowering still produces light red fruit shiny like jade, which is the four-season apricot and the second-class apricot.

Mai players often pay meticulous attention to the buds on the mai branches: round buds with new beads are the brilliant flower clusters that are in hiding; and long, pointed buds like chicken feet are the young leaves that have not yet appeared. Therefore, when choosing mai branches to play on Tet, mai connoisseurs pay close attention to these two types of buds to know whether the mai branch has many or few flowers...

From the 23rd day of Tet, everyone looks forward to the Flower Market. The Tet atmosphere fills the streets, but perhaps the Tet atmosphere comes earliest at the flower market.

Hong Dung