VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese businessmen, who are very rich and very superstitious, can spend billions of dong and time to hunt for the things they believe would bring good luck to their business.

Tens of thousands of dollars on tomb statues

A lot of businessmen have been whispering in each others’ ears that highly capable feng shui experts believe someone would “talk of the devil and he is sure to appear” if he puts Central Highlands’ tomb statues.

There was a custom of burying dead people with tomb statues which serve as the safeguards for the tombs. Sometimes relatives of the dead also bury some other things for the dead to use in the afterworld.

NTTH, Director of a media company in Tan Binh district in HCM City, has bought two tomb statues from Lam Dong province, taking pride of the products. She said that the couple of statues dating back 100 years ago were worth $8,000.

In minds of the Central Highlands’ people, tomb statues are considered as the people who defend the land of living and the afterworld for the dead. Therefore, the statues have very high spiritual value and they can bring good lucks to the owners.

Therefore, H believes that the more tomb statues someone possesses, the more his business would prosper.

TTA, 54, in Phu Nhuan district in HCM City, also said he had four statues at $12,000, hoping that the statues would help him escape from misfortune.

A revealed that his business was very bad in 2012, when many loyal customers left and others canceled orders. However, since the day he bought the statues, his business has been prospering again.

“I have recently received a series of orders worth tens of billions of dong. Money has come to find me,” he said, adding that the statues have an astonishingly big power.

Millions of dong on fish lips

Anh vu fish (semilabeo obscous lin) is believed to bring good luck and help people go smoothly with their works. Therefore, the high prices of the fish won’t make the rich people hesitate to spend tens of millions of dong to buy the fish. Especially, the lips of anh vu fish alone would cost millions of dong, because they are very tasty and believed to treat many diseases.

Anh vu is a kind of precious freshwater fish in Vietnam. In the past, the kind of fish was only used to present to the Kings, and nowadays, it is reserved only for the rich.

The owner of a restaurant one day set the sky high price of VND20 million for a 3 kilo fish, but surprisingly, the price level was accepted by a big guy who insisted on enjoying the specialty on the fine day.

Hundreds of millions of dong on phones compatible with owners’ age

N, a big businessman in district 2 in HCM City, said he spent VND300 million dong to stick 888 diamonds on his Vertu Signature S, because a fortune teller said the diamonds would bring prosperity.

A player in Hanoi reportedly ordered a gold inlaid Black Berry from the British ContinentalMobiles. The mobile phone with its characteristics are believed to be compatible to his age, therefore, it would help his business go smoothly.

The couple of stone lions in front of big businesswoman’s house

Pham Thi Dieu Hien, the owner of Bianfishco, a big seafood company in Can Tho, has become very well known in Vietnam not because she was the owner of a company which was on the verge of bankruptcy with a huge debt, but also as a big businesswoman who spends big money on feng shui things.

The businesswoman put a couple of stone lions in front of her house which were believed to bring good luck to the landlord. However, it seemed that the couple of lions did not fulfill their task, because Hien suffered a serious disease, while her enterprise was on the verge of bankruptcy.

Manh Ha