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On the morning of September 2 (the 15th of the seventh lunar month), hundreds of people flocked to Dieu Phap Pagoda (Binh Thanh district, Ho Chi Minh City) to burn incense and commemorate their parents on the occasion of the Feast of the Annunciation of Vu Lan Hung.
This year’s Yulanpen Festival is a bit more special than every year because the Covid-19 epidemic has yet to come to a complete stop. For this reason, many people go to the temple to pray for peace on this occasion, without forgetting to wear masks to avoid epidemics. However, there are still some people who “forget” to wear a mask.
Many people go to Dieu Phap pagoda (Binh Thanh district) on the full moon day of the 7th lunar month – Vu Lan reported filial piety and almost everyone was wearing masks to prevent the Covid-19 epidemic
The Yulanpen Festival is an opportunity for children and grandchildren to commemorate their birth, pray for peace for their families, ancestors and themselves … and at the same time it also comes with a liberation ceremony.
As every year, in addition to releasing birds to release, there are many people who go to the Saigon river next to the Dieu Phap pagoda to release fish, crabs, snails, turtles … to release them. Liberation is very significant, but it depends on the condition and mind of each person, it is not mandatory.
After burning incense for peace, the next ritual is to release fish, turtles, birds … release. The fish is bought in barrels from abroad and brought to the pagoda to release the Saigon River.
A sad situation that still occurs in the annual Yulanpen season is that, right after people go to the temple to do the liberation ceremony, an army of “elite”. equipped with motor boat, electric tank, fishing net … ready to collect fish.
Even though people were still standing on the shore and the fish had just been thrown into the water, a group of people sitting in the boat immediately used electricity to paralyze the fish. Just after the “pee” sound of the stun gun, hundreds of fish large and small float to the surface with their stomachs. After that, they were picked up in the boat by the person injecting, waiting to be resold.
The release of fish is an optional ritual for each person, not mandatory.
Although it makes everyone who looks at it shake their head, but the young man who steals the fish remains calm as if nothing happened, and at the same time, sharing this full moon day can be tormenting. Almost a hundred kilograms of fish of all kinds and an average of injected fish were resold for 50,000 VND / kg.
Many people who went fishing witnessed the above scene simply sighed and couldn’t do anything, nor did they bother to remember, as long as the fish was dropped into the water, completing the release task would be considered. And the main power station “army” is comfortable, carefree to collect fish and resell it, so a fish can be thrown into the river … multiple times.
Knowing the situation of the fish release racket, many people were more careful to buy a few barrels of fish to rent boats down to the middle of the river to release in the hope that they could live, but after they entered, the “army” he was still stunned. Continue taking a speedboat to catch. Liberation should help the animal to live freely, but with the state of being liberated again, it is captured, what will be the fate of that animal, everyone knows.
This man buys a lot of big fish for over a million VND to set them free
Someone poured fish directly into the basket and then mixed it with the water for the fish to swim in and release
Or hold a bucket of fish dumped directly into the river
As the fish are released more and more, the “army” of stingers appear and clean themselves cleanly in front of the droper.
This young man said that the fish were collected and sold for about 50,000 VND / kg depending on the type
The “Army” walked along the river bank near the pagoda to fish with electric prods.
The woman had just dropped the fish when the “army” looked at it and waited for it to be picked up.
The “army” that injects fish is not only young but also women and everyone does not hesitate when people give their opinion.
The boat is full of fish that has just been picked up with electric batons.
Too scared, the villagers had to hire boats to go to the middle of the river to free the fish and release them in the hope that they would not be caught by an electric shock.
However, the fish released in the middle of the river could not escape the “army” of fish.
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