Tết, or Lunar New Year, is the most important festival in Vietnam. It celebrates the end of winter and the beginning of spring based on the lunar calendar. Families gather together to enjoy special foods like bánh chưng cakes and mứt jams. Traditional customs include children receiving "lì xì" red envelopes with money from elders and decorating homes with flowers and kumquat trees for good luck in the new year. Tết is a time for Vietnamese people to celebrate after a hard year of work with the hope of prosperity and happiness to come.
Tết, or Lunar New Year, is the most important festival in Vietnam. It celebrates the end of winter and the beginning of spring based on the lunar calendar. Families gather together to enjoy special foods like bánh chưng cakes and mứt jams. Traditional customs include children receiving "lì xì" red envelopes with money from elders and decorating homes with flowers and kumquat trees for good luck in the new year. Tết is a time for Vietnamese people to celebrate after a hard year of work with the hope of prosperity and happiness to come.
Tết, or Lunar New Year, is the most important festival in Vietnam. It celebrates the end of winter and the beginning of spring based on the lunar calendar. Families gather together to enjoy special foods like bánh chưng cakes and mứt jams. Traditional customs include children receiving "lì xì" red envelopes with money from elders and decorating homes with flowers and kumquat trees for good luck in the new year. Tết is a time for Vietnamese people to celebrate after a hard year of work with the hope of prosperity and happiness to come.
Tết, or Lunar New Year, is the most important festival in Vietnam. It celebrates the end of winter and the beginning of spring based on the lunar calendar. Families gather together to enjoy special foods like bánh chưng cakes and mứt jams. Traditional customs include children receiving "lì xì" red envelopes with money from elders and decorating homes with flowers and kumquat trees for good luck in the new year. Tết is a time for Vietnamese people to celebrate after a hard year of work with the hope of prosperity and happiness to come.
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Good afternoon everybody.
I am very pleased to stand here and have a
talk about a traditional festival- which is called “Tet” or Lunar New Year Eve. It is a cutural beauty of Vietnamese people for generations. This is the first time of changing the seasons between the old year and the new year, the beggining of a new beginning, with the hope of all luck and good things. Tết Nguyên Đán, more commonly known by its shortened name Tết, is the most important and popular holiday and festival in Vietnam. It is the Vietnamese New Year marking the arrival of spring based on the Lunar calendar. The name Tết Nguyên Đán is Sino-Vietnamese for Feast of the First Morning. The dates of Lunar New Year differs every year but it generally takes place around late January or February. Because of the fact that Vietnamese families are so close-knitted, Tet Holiday is considered the best occassion for family members to return home and get together. During Tết, Vietnamese spend time shopping for the New Year, go to Pagodas and Temples. The items of shopping range from food to clothing to decorations for the house. The Vietnamese believe that Tet Holiday is an occasion to enjoy life after a full hard-working year, thus people forget their struggles and focus on making the celebration as festive as possible. Due to the high regard in which people hold it, Tết, as often as not, is consumed with unique, distinctive colors and flavors. Let’s take a look at some traditions and customs typical of this special holiday in Vietnam. (Vietnamese cuisine at Tet) There are many delicious foods usually exist during the holiday, which show the special cuisine of Vietnames. One of the most special food is banh chung. Before 4-5 days before the new year, the whole family gather together in the yard and make banh chung – a traditional salty cake. Another dessert in Tet is Mut or jams.Mứt Tết (Tết jam) is not a food to serve in a meal during Tết holiday, but more like a snack to welcome guests in this special period. (Traditional customs) Even though many Vietnamese traditions are based on old cultural beliefs that may strike some as a little superstitious, families believe that their activities during Tết must involve happiness, joy, and good luck. Below are some of the popular, long-standing Tết traditional customs that have stood the test of time from generations to generations. The first day of Tết is reserved for the nuclear family. Children receive a red envelope containing money from their elders. This tradition is called mừng tuổi (happy new age) in the north and lì xì in the south. Usually, children wear their new clothes and give their elders the traditional Tết greetings before receiving the money. (Decoration at Tet) Traditionally, each family displays “Cây nêu”, an artificial New Year Tree consisting of a bamboo pole 5 to 6 m long. The top end is usually decorated with many objects, depending on the locality, including good luck charms, origami fish, cactus branches, etc. At Tết every house is listening usually decorated by hoa mai – Ochna integerrima (in the central and southern parts of Vietnam) or hoa đào – peach flower (in the northern part of Vietnam) or hoa ban (in mountain areas). In the north or central, the kumquat tree is a popular decoration for the living room during Tết. Its bright orange- colored fruits represent the fertility and fruitfulness that the family hopes for in the coming year. That’s the end of my presentation about a tradional festival in Vietnam. I hope that all of you will have a great time with your family at Tet holiday. Wishing you a New Year filled with new hope, new joy and new beginnings. Thank you for you
