Lunar New Year in Vietnam
Lunar New Year in Vietnam
The Vietnamese lunar New Year festival, Tet Nguyen Dan, is the most significant holiday taking place within the first three days of the New Year. During these days, people welcome a new coming year with good health, lucks and success. The preparation for Tet holiday is taken place very soon because it requires many steps. All members of families clean and redecorate their houses together. Then, they buy food such as cookies, sweets, candies fruit, watermelon’s seed to offer their guests and to store because in this occasion, many shops are closed. A branch of peach flower or a kumquat tree cannot be absent from every home during these special days. Children are the most eager, as their parents will buy them new clothes. In addition to buying things, many Vietnamese families make Chung cake, pickled onion, frozen meat, which are our country's traditional food on Tet holiday. People decorate ancestral altars with a five-fruit tray, vegetables, sweets, and flowers. In the last day of the previous year, people become more excited as they feel that the New Year is very near to them. Everybody all waits for the sacred moment when the clock points 0 am and fireworks light up everywhere to wish for health, lucks and happiness in the next year. In the first morning of the year, everything seems peaceful and quiet. People get up early to come back to their hometown to visit their ancestors' graves and relatives. Everybody go to their neighbors' houses to wish them a happy new year. Children in new clothes are very excited, as they will get lucky money from adults. There are many activities to welcome new coming spring in this occasion. In spring festivals, everyone especially the young takes part in the traditional games such as rollercoaster, tug of war, cooking rice, cock fighting to express their happiness while farmers wish for bumper crops. Women often go to pagodas to show their hearts and wish their families good things and power to avoid
The Vietnamese lunar New Year festival, Tet Nguyen Dan, is the most significant holiday taking place within the first three days of the New Year. During these days, people welcome a new coming year with good health, lucks and success. The preparation for Tet holiday is taken place very soon because it requires many steps. All members of families clean and redecorate their houses together. Then, they buy food such as cookies, sweets, candies fruit, watermelon’s seed to offer their guests and to store because in this occasion, many shops are closed. A branch of peach flower or a kumquat tree cannot be absent from every home during these special days. Children are the most eager, as their parents will buy them new clothes. In addition to buying things, many Vietnamese families make Chung cake, pickled onion, frozen meat, which are our country's traditional food on Tet holiday. People decorate ancestral altars with a five-fruit tray, vegetables, sweets, and flowers. In the last day of the previous year, people become more excited as they feel that the New Year is very near to them. Everybody all waits for the sacred moment when the clock points 0 am and fireworks light up everywhere to wish for health, lucks and happiness in the next year. In the first morning of the year, everything seems peaceful and quiet. People get up early to come back to their hometown to visit their ancestors' graves and relatives. Everybody go to their neighbors' houses to wish them a happy new year. Children in new clothes are very excited, as they will get lucky money from adults. There are many activities to welcome new coming spring in this occasion. In spring festivals, everyone especially the young takes part in the traditional games such as rollercoaster, tug of war, cooking rice, cock fighting to express their happiness while farmers wish for bumper crops. Women often go to pagodas to show their hearts and wish their families good things and power to avoid