Vietnam New Year Celebration
This holiday also called tet nguyen dan.
Vietnam new year celebration. Public holidays in vietnam. Recently vietnam has become an attractive destination in south east asia especial on christmas and new years eve holidays 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 if you have never been in vietnam during new year festival give it a try in next coming season. Holiday in commemoration of the birth the enlightenment and the death of the buddha sep 2.
The name tet nguyen dan is sino vietnamese for feast of the very first morning. The word is a shortened form of tết nguyên đán which is sino vietnamese for feast of the first morning of the first day. International new year s eve new year s eve is the last day of the year december 31 in the gregorian calendar.
Tet nguyen dan or tet for short is considered the biggest and most popular festival of the year in vietnam. Vietnamese people celebrate the lunar new year annually which is based on a. The vietnamese consider tet to be the most important in their considerable festival lineup.
Tết celebrates the arrival of spring based on the vietnamese calendar which usually has the date falling in january or february in the gregorian calendar. Tet nguyen dan or tet is the most important and popular holiday and festival in vietnam. Vietnamese new year tet tweet.
Vietnamese new year in 2019 will last from 4 10 feb 2019. Considered the first day of spring and most important of national holidays in vietnam tet is the annual vietnamese new year celebration coinciding with the lunar new year celebrated throughout the world in january or february. Labour day may 19.
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. Celebrations with family foreshadowing for the upcoming year food and friendship are all foundational in the tet or new year celebrations in vietnam. In vietnam it also has one of the biggest and longest festivals of any of the festivals that are celebrated in that country.