The custom of eating betel peoples Vietnam

Betel, multiply the fun every time guest is invited to play the betel; weddings have to share the joy of betel disk; Holidays and New Year with betel invite strangers to make friends; acquaintance with betel are intimates. Betel is also respectful of the next generation to the previous generation via worship ancestors feast, divine sacrifice ...

Betel chewing kits on display are made of copper, silver, ceramics ..., including tray containing betel nut, lime pot, pipefish, spittoons, dove knife, duct picking, picking key ... carved, painted motifs, country landscapes, flowers or beautiful animals on each instrument, to mark the birth, survival kits, depending on the class of betel chewing wealthy farmers or in social life for centuries.

Director of the Research Centre for Cultural Care Ninh Thuan Nguyen Thi Thu, said, according to custom of betel chewing, on arrival home, first home owners must carry a bowl containing the water with a spoon (lips) put on a station for guests to rinse. Then the landlord brought a tray of betel receptions. On the disc tray containing betel, areca drive up, fashioned lime, floss pill box, knife, peel the paper plate, peel areca feet ... always have a large spittoons to spit baits guests betel, betel country.


The custom of eating betel ethnic Cham in Ninh Thuan
To injectable beautiful betel, including areca, betel leaf, and lime floss drugs, requires dexterity to inject betel, betel folded square. If the client is a middle-aged man, can chew betel direct and enjoyed spicy, aromatic betel. If you are elderly, will give betel injected into the pipe swab to swab until soft and then chew betel.

Betel, also is a symbol of conjugal love; betel forefront, working for the couple and the rope is tied affinity son, daughter and wife to her husband. The custom of betel chewing has left many impressive and customs passed down to the next generation. In the South, the concept of betel tray wedding symbolizes all things in the universe, so the ships, boats could not carry abstention. Today, to speak plate for wedding ceremony with the bride's family, despite the circumstances, the boys also indispensable betel leaf, betel nut.

In the North and Central also a common practice is to Binh Lime church. Lime pot, using it to refill depleted my lime into long days old limestone layer clinging to the inner walls of the flask and stiffens, not grated lime, making the average lap average and narrower, not longer be used. According to custom, rather than discard lime pot, bring average person eats betel lime to give up under the tree in the village. In the traditional holidays, people burn incense to worship him Binh Lime.
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