Young Vietnamese made a pilgrimage this Valentine's Day to 'beg' Buddha to find a partner

The 14th of February, Valentine's day, young people Vietnamese went to the buddha temples with offerings to ask for get a partner

A tray of sweets, water, roses, and money (fake bills of dong, the local currency, and US dollars) was a common offering at the altar of the Ha Pagodatremor known as the ideal to pray for love in the capital Hanoi.

Although Vietnam is a communist country, Buddhist and Confucian traditions they continue being strong in the population and it is increasingly common that on Valentine's Day, which comes from Christianity, Vietnamese people take the opportunity to ask for divine intervention in their love lives.

An example is Nguyen Van Duong, a young 30-year-old single doctor, who feels pressure from his parents to get married and start a family. “My parents are getting older day by day. They just want me to get married and have kids.”, he detailed for AFP.

For Vietnam's still very conservative society, marriage and family are very important. The legal age for marriage is 18 for women and 20 for men, but the new generations, increasingly urban and educated, few settle down that early.

Just like the young doctor Duong, many single men and women feel the pressure of their family and go on pilgrimage to ask Buddha to find love for them. meet the demands of society and your family nucleus.

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Graduated in International Studies from the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS) with participation in a Dolphin Scientific Summer at the UNAM Legal Research Institute, she worked from 2019 to 2020 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (SRE) in the Latin American region. and the Caribbean. She is currently part of the Debate team, where she works as a digital reporter through the debate.com.mx portal for Sinaloa

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