Vietnamese People: How Are They Affected by the Vu Lan Festival?

With the coming July of the lunar calendar, many Vietnamese families begin to prepare for the Vu Lan ceremony, the second largest annual traditional festival of Vietnam. This is a festival organized by Vietnamese people participating in religious ceremonies and humanitarian activities.
Vu Lan is celebrated on the full moon day of the 7th lunar month in many Asian cultures as a way to honor the deceased.
Vu Lan Festival is an ideal and special event for foreign tourists who want to discover Vietnamese culture and understand more about Vietnamese values.
The original idea of ​​this festival is in the legend of Muc Kien Lien, one of the ten main disciples of the Buddha. He asked the Buddha for help and advised him to gather a group of monks and devotees to pray for his mother on the full moon day of July every year. Their collective prayers proved to have the power to free his mother but also many other souls. Since then, Vu Lan festival is celebrated on the 15th day of the 7th lunar month to honor mothers and the gates of hell are said to open to let the souls be tormented for 24 hours.
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