Well TET holiday is all but over, kids go back to school on Monday and the madness resumes. There is a street in the heart of the city called Nguyen Hue Street. Every year this is given over to amazing flower displays which take an age to create then after a week are gone. Below are a couple of photos, one this year and one in the 60’s.
Flowers are synonymous with the Vietnamese culture, the yellow chrysanthemum type flower is ubiquitous.
Flowers are also used for household shrines. We have one in the Kitchen – for the ‘Kitchen God’ and two in our living room for our ‘living room’ Gods. I’m not allowed to walk about naked in case the Gods see and are offended. On holidays such as TET food and drink is offered to the God before people eat it
Love and Peace – John
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