VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese families offered feasts, burnt votive paper and released carps to see the Kitchen God off to the heaven in the morning of January 23.


Purchasing votive products for the Kitchen God.





Votive products are indispensable.





People also purchase chicken for the feast.





This family, in Long Bien district, Hanoi, is preparing the feast for the Kitchen God.




























People release carps to lakes and rivers.






Volunteers collect plastic bags discharged by those who release carps.





Carps in the Red River, Hanoi.





Burning paper-made clothes for the Kitchen God.



Lakes and rivers are polluted by plastic bags after the Kitchen God Day:

















































Many families in Saigon use a new service, which appears this year: hiring men who disguise as the good fortune deities to perform worshipping rituals to the Kitchen God.




































Burning votive paper for the Kitchen God.



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