The wedding banquet
After the marriage, both wedding parties leave to join guests that were not invited to the marriage ceremony at a large banquet. This is usually a large gathering, often in the hundreds and sometimes more. The groom, bride, and their family are once again introduced to the guests and everyone drinks a toast. Dinner or lunch is served at the table.
During the reception, the groom, bride, and their parents visit each table to thank their guests. In return, the guests give envelopes containing wedding cards, money gifts and a blessing to the newly wedded couple.
After the banquet, the groom’s party and the bride leave for the groom’s house, where she will live. Later, the bride’s party follows to inspect the accommodation - particularly the marital.
Funeral Ceremony
“The sense of the dead is that of the final,” says a Vietnamese proverb, meaning that funeral ceremonies must be solemnly organized.
Formerly funeral ceremonies went as follow’s: the body was washed and dressed; a chopstick, was laid between the teeth and a pinch of rice and three coins were dropped in the mouth. The body was laid on a grass mat spread on the ground enveloped with white cloth and put into the coffin. Finally, the funeral ceremony, was officially performed.
The coffin is buried and covered, but after three days of mourning, the family visits the tomb again and opens the grave for worship.Finally, after 49 days, the family stops bringing rice for the dead to the altar. And then, after 100 days, the family celebrates “tot khoc”, or the end of the tears.
After one year there is a ceremony for the first anniversary of the relative’s death and after two years in the end of mourning festival.
Nowadays, mourning ceremonies follow new rituals which are simplified; they consist of covering and putting the dead body into the coffin, the funeral procession, the burial of the coffin into the grave, and the visits to the tomb. The death’s family members wear a white turban or a black mourning band.
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