In the exciting atmosphere of Tet, the flowers, branches, and bowls will give your family the vitality and beauty of the New Year. Familiar plants and flowers such as apricot, peach, kumquat, and chrysanthemum are often purchased to display the festival, in addition to their formal beauty, which also symbolizes beauty or prosperity. You choose a family of plants, flowers of the following to welcome a new year lucky.

1. Quat Tree

For a long time, Quat has become an indispensable object of many Vietnamese families during Lunar New Year. According to the sound of Han, pronounced the word "quat" near the sound of the word "sand" so Quat is also considered a sandstone.
Meaning: Cay Quat symbolizes luck, peace, health, joy, lure and also a good start to the new year.
How to choose trees: You should choose trees with stems, sturdy stems, the layers create symmetric symmetry in harmony. The leaves are green, lush, yellowish, but not too ripe and the fruit is distributed in the distribution.

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2. Sung Shui

Cay Sung has beautiful bunches of fruits that are popular in the living room, yard of Tet.
Meaning: The name itself of Sung has shown good luck, prosperity, prosperity and prosperity.
How to choose trees: Choose beautiful plants, many fruits. When you buy, you need to carefully check the fruit on the tree is true or the seller using fruit glue on the tree.

3. Phat Tai, Phat Loc

Phat Tai, Phat Loc is widely grown in Vietnam. With the name Phat Tai, Phat Loc, people like to plant this tree in the house on New Year. There are two types: potted plants and plants with 3, 5, 7 floors (number of separate floors) with the desire to develop and prosper.
Meaning: This is a tree brings luck, fortune wealth for the family. The number of cashew trees, buds are planted in a pot has different meanings.

2 trees: love and marriage

3 trees: happiness, longevity, wealth

5 trees: Health

8 trees: prosperity, wealth

9 trees: lucky
How to choose trees: Choose lush, healthy plants, stem and leaves are green, no leaves yellow, rise up.

4. Son Group

Pineapple (Red Pineapple) is red eye catching. Due to the difficult to grow plants, difficult to propagate and care should be very expensive.
Meaning: wealth, sum.
Choosing a tree: Choose a pot with a big bunch, beautiful, fresh color. If the pot has more small fruit as possible.

5. Red cabbage

You can order some lovely pots of red cabbage in the living room on New Year's Day. Note that turnips planted as a scene can not be processed into food because fibrous bulbs cause loss of nutrients and vitamins.
Meaning: Round red cabbage represents the fullness, fullness. Red represents warmth, good luck.
How to choose trees: bulbs are not soft color, green leaves.

6. Long Thanh

People plant dragon fruit in the pot, the fruit is beautiful red color and can display longer on Tet. Suitable dragon fruit in the courtyard, hall where the space is wide.
Meaning: sandy and prosperous
How to choose the tree: Choose the fruit is ripe to soft, not ripe.

7. Orange, Tangerines, Grapefruits

In recent years, many people like to display orange, tangerine, grapefruit trees in front of the gate or the company gate in the early days of the year, with the desire to harvest fresh fruit in the new year.
Meaning: symbolizes prosperity and development of family fortune.
How to choose trees: Choose trees with many fresh fruits, leafy leaves, many are young, fortune.

8. Lucid Ganoderma

Lucid Ganoderma is a familiar medicine with high economic value. Due to the beautiful colors, recently, these medicinal herbs have been made into ornamental plants and bonsai are also present in the house during the Lunar New Year.
Meaning: Many people think that Lingzhi long life, brilliant colors ... longevity, prosperity.
In addition to the above mentioned plants, there are also the following plants are also favorite on the occasion of Tet with different meanings:
- Buddha: symbolizes spiritual values, fortune.
- Swallow Enough: the tree must have enough flowers, leaves and fruits, showing the warm, full, full of material.
- Prawn scene: red fruit brings fortune, fortune for the family.
- Grenades: good news will come.
- An apple tree with a wish for a new year of luck, fortune.

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New Delhi: Remnants of ancient Indian pottery, beads and even Indian DNA found in human bones point to thriving trade and social contacts between India and Bali dating back to more than 2,000 years.

Besides trade, Indian merchants brought with them their language - Sanskrit - and the influence of Hinduism and Buddhism, noted Indonesian archaeologist I. Wayan Ardika said Vietnamese pots

Fresh evidence of age-old close links between India and Southeast Asia has been found in the ancient port towns of Sembiran and Pacung in northern Bali, says Ardika.

The major Indian port of connect with Bali in Indonesia and other places in Southeast Asia was Arikamedu, a thriving port located seven kilometres from Puducherry from where archaeologists have unearthed Roman artefacts too.

"Trade between India and Bali can be traced from as early as the late 2nd century BC. A lot of evidence exists in Sembiran and Pacung, and also the ancient port town of Julah," Ardika told IANS on the sidelines of an international meet on Asean-India Cultural Links.

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The influence of Sanskrit and the ideology of Hinduism and Buddhism which the Indian traders brought along "stimulated the rise of early state formation of kingdoms (in Bali) with an Indian base", said Ardika, a professor of archaeology at Udayana University in Bali.

He said Julah, located near Sembiran and Pacung, was a thriving port from between the 2nd century BC and 12th century AD - for 14 centuries.

Archaeologists have found evidence of Sanskrit in the local script of the late 9th century AD.

"In my research covering Julah, and Sembiran and Pacung, I found numerous artefacts, pottery shards, beads brought by Indian traders," the expert, who read a paper at the July 23-24 conference, told IANS.

The burial sites at Julah (from late 2nd century BC to 12th century AD) showed up Indian DNA on the human remains.

"We found Indian DNA on the human remains which indicates there was marriage; the Indian trader may have married locals," Ardika said.

The inscriptions on the pottery also had the names of places located in India like Nalanda, Amravati and Varanasi.

In those early times, high functionaries or priests in the Balinese kingdoms named their residences after Indian names like Nalanda, Varanasi, Senapati and Amravati, Ardika added.

The names of some Indian places were adopted to the local ones too - between the 9th century AD to 11th century AD.

Small clay Buddhist stupas, measuring 10 cm high, were found in Pejeng, in central Bali, a rich centre of archaeological remains.

The small stupas, dated from the 8th century AD, show a lot of Indian influence, he said, adding that many stupas were also found in central Java, indicating the reach of Indian traders.

According to Ardika, the Indian influence in Bali came in two surges - in the 2nd century BC and later in 8th century AD, which also brought with it Buddhism.

"In the early times, Indian traders came and stimulated the social structures (with Sanskrit, and Hindu and Buddhist ideology). When Bali adopted Buddhism, the second migration from the 8th century AD to 11th century AD came to strengthen the Indian influence. It was the second massive contact with India," he said.

Ardika said the finds in Sembiran, Pacung and Julah show that Balinese were in contact with not only India but China also.

Ardika said the international Asean-India Cultural Links conference was an "important start to do more research on the links between India and Southeast Asia and also China".

The July 23-24 conference was the first such meeting of artists, historians and archaeologists from India and the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

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