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Ancestor Worship - Coggle Diagram

- - - - This is a way of expressing gratitude and tribute to the deceased. According to the concept of Vietnamese people, the deceased often engage in the present life, they guide, direct, protect us, bless us…
        
        Ancestor worship is all forms of rituals and worship to express devotion, the morality of "when drinking water, remember its origins”, and being grateful to ancestors, grandparents, and parents for giving birth and building life for children and grandchildren.
    - - The origin of the practice of ancestor worship in Vietnam
        
        It has been said that the Vietnamese believe in the dead, while the Occidentals believe only in death is to come to heaven.
        
        For the Vietnamese, ancestor worship is not related to ghosts or the supernatural in the Western sense.
        
        Ancestor worship was introduced into Vietnam by the Chinese during their long occupation of the country that began 200 years before the birth of Christ.
        
        Ancestor worship is fundamentally different. For the Vietnamese, death, and the ritual and practice of ancestor worship, constitutes the transfer of power from the tangible life to the intangible.