On the first days of the year, in Vietnam are fuller than at any other time.
People go to ask for a healthy, calm year for the family and good results at school.
Many visitors are not in ordinary life, and they see no in going.
The visit is partly belief and partly a way of marking the start of something.
Older relatives teach the practical rules to the young: modest clothes, quiet voices, no photographs of people praying.
are usually flowers and fruit, and the amount is not a competition.
In recent years several have asked visitors to burn less paper money.
The reason given is fire risk and air quality rather than .
Some families accepted the change immediately and others found it difficult.
A custom that is centuries old rarely changes because of an argument; it changes when a respected person does it differently.