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During the bustling spring days, people's hearts excitedly celebrating the Lunar New Year, we think again of dishes imbued with national identity. And banh chung is an indispensable dish among them.
   Banh chung has long been a Vietnamese traditional cake to express the gratitude of children and grandchildren to their father and the land. Legend has it that in the sixth reign of King Hung Vuong, after the defeating the An enemy, the king intended to pass the throne to his son. On the occasion of early spring, King Hung gathered his princes and asked the night princes to present to the father what they consider the most precious to worship their ancestors on the first day of spring. The princes race in search of the delicacies offered to their father, hoping that they will be crowned by their father. Meanwhile, Hung Vuong's eighteenth son Lang Lieu has a gentle personality, lives close to the poor working farmer, so he worries about nothing valuable to offer to his father. One day, Lang Lieu dreamed that a god came to tell him how to make a kind of rice cake and other available foods close to daily life. Woke up, he was extremely happy to follow the instructions of the god. On the date of the appointment, the princes brought food to display on a tray, full of paint trenches, phoenix rolls. Prince Lang Lieu has only two types of cakes made according to his dreams. King Hung Vuong was surprised and asked, when Lang Lieu took the story of the dream god, he explained the meaning of the cake. His father tasted it, found delicious cakes, meaningful compliments, he gave the name of banh chung and cake, and passed the throne to Lang Lieu.
  Baking method is very simple. Also according to legend, the way of making cakes today is no different from the dream of the god to Lang Lieu as well as the way of making cakes of a sweet sweet to the people. Ingredients for baking include sticky rice, green beans, pork, and leaves. These materials are both easy to find and meaningful: things in Heaven and Earth are not as precious as rice, because rice is the food that feeds people. Sticky rice is often used as harvested rice. Rice in this season has large seeds, round, even and fragrant than other crops. More sophisticated, some families have to choose whether to be sticky yellow flower or sticky rice. Green beans are often meticulously selected. After harvesting, beans need to be dried in the sun, sift all trash, dust, and flat seeds, classify the seeds and then put them in ceramic jars and jars. Pork should choose pigs that are raised entirely by hand (barn or free-range, natural vegetable bran feed without using weight gainer or animal feed). When choosing meat, take bacon (bacon) that is both fat and lean, making the cake taste rich, not dry. In addition, spices such as pepper, onions are also needed to marinate meat as filling; Salt is used to mix into rice, green beans and marinate meat. Especially marinated meat should not use fish sauce because the cake will quickly go rancid. The leaves to wrap the cake are usually fresh leaves. The leaves choose the leaves of the forest, which are large, even, not torn, and green. However, depending on the locality, ethnic group, conditions and circumstances, the leaf wrapped in a cake can be chit leaf or both a chit leaf or a chit leaf. Lat forcing banh chung often uses lam giang grass made from giang tube. Lat can be soaked in brine or softened before wrapping.

Tet Nguyen Dan (Tet the whole) is the biggest festival among Vietnamese traditional festivals for thousands of generations. Tet is an opportunity for people to show the warmth and happiness, is the day when the family gets together and gather together: wrapping a banh chung, looking at a pot of boiled water ... or simply sitting together in a family meal. warm. Tet is also an opportunity for all Vietnamese people to commemorate and pay tribute to ancestors and roots (ancestor ceremony, Thanh Minh Tet ...); It is also a time for human sympathy in the moral relationship "remember the fruit growers" and the friendship of the village ... The square, green, symbolic, Earth, negative banh chung. The cake is round, white, symbolizing Heaven, Yang, expressing the philosophy of Yin Yang, Translation, Oriental Dialectics in general and the Square and Round philosophy of Vietnam in particular. Small, fit in the palm of your hand. It's white. There are two round cut green leaves on the top of the bed. The face on the arc is like the sky. In ancient Vietnamese society, banh giay was used as a pure offering to worship God and God. Accept God as the creator of the universe, master of heaven and earth. God is the ruler of the locality, while banh chung is square, symbolizing the land, according to popular conception: Heaven is round and square. The banh chung represents Heaven, father, dragon, strength…, banh chung represents the earth, mother, Âu Cơ, and the beauty of Tien. Wrapping banh chung is more troublesome than making thick cake, it also expresses the nuisance and variety of lifestyle on the ground. The banh chung is packed with local flowers, turning the housewife's everyday foods such as meat, meat, beans, onions; -tieu salt… into a special taste of Tet.