During Tet, large
numbers of people come to pray and make offerings to ask for good luck and
prosperity in the new year. Temples are filled with incense and incense smoke. The
smell is somewhat overwhelming, but the scene is serene and ethereal. The large
spiral incense coils are particularly beautiful. People light the end of the
outside edge of the flat spiral, and then an attendant lifts the other end up
to the rafters. The spiral unwinds and forms a suspended cone.
