Vietnamese New Year Festival

Steamed glutinous rice is considered to be the most representative food for the vietnamese during the spring festival most of which is mixed with pork.

Vietnamese new year festival. Click to read the top 3 chinese new year legends stories. Tết or vietnamese new year vietnamese lunar new year or tet holiday is the most important celebration in vietnamese culture the word is a shortened form of tết nguyên đán 節元旦 which is sino vietnamese for feast of the first morning of the first day. How tet is calculated.

Its roots can be traced all the way back to the chinese who brought this lunar new year holiday to vietnam. Ticket booths are located adjacent to the main entrance and accept cash only. Tickets at the gate.

Tết celebrates the arrival of spring based on the vietnamese calendar which usually has the date falling in january or. History of vietnamese new year tết nguyên đán in vietnamese tết nguyên đán roughly translates into english as the first morning of the first day it is a celebration that has been celebrated for thousands of years. Hanoi s time gmt 7 is one hour behind beijing so some years the official start of tet varies from chinese new year by a single day.

He has also approved a four day break for next year s national day from september 2 thursday to september 5 sunday. Otherwise you can just assume the two holidays coincide. Most new year pictures are themed boy and girl attendants of fairies and mice sending a party escorting the bride expressing the best wishes for the coming year.

Celebrated on the first day of the first month in lunar calendar tet s celebration is the longest holiday which may last up to seven to nine days vietnamese new year in 2021 will last from 10 16 feb 2021. According to the vietnamese tradition father s tet is on the first day of new year mother s tet is on the second and teacher is on the third it means on the 1st day of new year vietnamese visit their parents on the husband s side on the 2nd day they turn to parents on the wife s side and on the 3rd day they spend time to visit relatives teachers and friends. Tet holiday vietnamese lunar new year or simply tet vietnam is the most significant festival in vietnam.

Tet is the biggest and most important festival in vietnam. The story behind the vietnamese new year. The first day of the new lunar year occurs on the new moon between january 21 and february 20.