Process analysis Essay

A Celebration For Lunar New Year In My Hometown

               Any nation on the world has a lot of special holidays or festivals in a year. Every holiday has different features of that nation, it show up nation’s tranditions and cultures that remain along time. The Lunar new year is the best anticipated holiday for in particularly Vietnamese.Lunar New Year is the first day of the first month of the year following calender of Chinese. Although we live in the same country, each area has some its different in celebration for this holiday. They are a lot of phase to prepare for a  festival.

          One week before lunar new year, Almost everyboby tend to paint, clean up and decorate their house to welcome a new year  with hopeness, one more year have a lots success, luck and happiness, everyone expect for a new year with more money than old year. Normally, we decorate for house with peoms or black riddle on the red paper hanging in front of two side of door, we also buy yellow Mai flower and 5 kinds of fruit: annona, coconut, mango, papaya an watermelon to put in a big plate; Especial in Lunar new year, it is never lack  “Banh Chung, Banh Tet”  in every family, It is the traditional food of Vietnamese. In city people are very busy with their work, so they can buy it in many stores, Sometimes they forget it. But in my hometown, everyone gets accustomed to cook “Banh Chung, Banh Tet” in the New year Eve. In the  December 30 morning, almost all the member of family sit near together preparing for cooking. Making “Banh Chung” is request a lot of phase from clean the leaves to put it on the caboose. The time for cooking them about 10 to 12 hours, everyone is virtually interesting in waiting for a long time because they can talk about everything happened through this year.

        Before 11 o’clock On new year Eve, we often prepare soup, a  big 5 kinds of fruits plate with a lot of cake and candy on the table outside the house, some are set in front yard and others are put in a place of worship . At 11 o’clock, the oldest man in a family begin incense from inside to outside of the house to pay his duty to ancestors, onother members standing and looking in silently. It means we invite our died relationship joining with us and pray for one good year. In that night, it usually has a group of young man dancing in colourful uniform with the heart of a unicorn. It is believed that kylin can bring luckiness and peace for all member of family. Sometimes we can hear the boom of firework around the street. Every one from old to young also exciting in waiting for  a new year.

     Arranging for a new year has finished when the o’clock has  stricken over 12. People give best wishes together. Older person always give young person lucky money which are put in the red envelope to pray they will have a lot money and good results in studying or working in new year. To reply everything what older people gave, young people also give the same best wishes for health and mammon too. It is the best thing for us sit near together, eat some candy and tell some funny story to begin a new year with sweetness and funniness. After that we will take a deep sleep to ready for a new day of a new day. In the morning people tend to go to pagoda and church to pick blessed ballot papers. A new year has began, everything is waiting forward.

        Preparing for a new year waste a lot of time to decorate house and cook food. It is the wonderful moment to give and admit lucky things. Lunar new year is the best time for all the member in family have chance to reunite, waiting for the wink transmit between old and new year is very great.It is not only bring them a hopeness for a better life in future, it also the useful way to maintain the love of us to our traditional and cultural nation.