New Year Celebration Vietnam
The word is a shortened form of tết nguyên đán which is sino vietnamese for feast of the first morning of the first day.
New year celebration vietnam. Eating is the best way to celebrate vietnamese lunar new year. As you can imagine the former capital of hue is a focal point of celebrations where a tet pole is raised on the grounds of the hue imperial citadel. Being the second largest celebration after lunar new year the 2020 new years eve is celebrated grandly in a bit different ways in each over vietnam cities.
Ho chi minh s birthday may 28. Tet nguyen dan translates literally to the first morning of the first day of the new year this day varies by the year but is always in either january or february. One traditional proverb in vietnam denotes that you can be hungry all over the year except three days of tet.
Vietnamese people celebrate the lunar new year annually which is based on a. Founding day of the communist party of vietnam apr 30. Labour day may 19.
Têt or vietnamese new year is the largest and most important festival in the vietnamese calendar. Recently vietnam has become an attractive destination in south east asia especial on christmas and new years eve holidays. Public holidays in vietnam.
The vietnamese new year otherwise known as tết or tết nguyên đán is a public holiday which is one of the most important holidays in vietnamese culture. In vietnam it also has one of the biggest and longest festivals of any of the festivals that are celebrated in that country. Dozens of delicious dishes will be prepared for the vietnamese new year to worship the ancestors and feast all family members.
Hue hanoi and ho chi minh are the most popular places to visit for new year in vietnam and where many events fireworks and celebrations are common. Tết vietnamese new year vietnamese lunar new year or tet holiday is the most important celebration in vietnamese culture. The vietnamese consider tet to be the most important in their considerable festival lineup family members travel from across the country to spend the holiday in each other s company.