- Tet Nguyen Dan (also known as Tet Ca [1], Tet Ta, Lunar New Year, Traditional New Year or simply Tet) is the most important and significant Lunar New Year holiday in Vietnam, along with literature Lunar New Year of the East Asian countries. Before Tet, the Vietnamese have customs such as "worshiping Apple Quan" (23 December of lunar December) and "worshiping the year of the year" (29 or 30 December of the lunar calendar).
- some Asian countries or such as Vietnam, China....
-in some countries such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, Korea,.....Due to the rule of three leap years a month of the lunar calendar, the first day of the year of the Lunar New Year is never before the 21st of the first lunar month and after the 19 February of the solar calendar, but falls between these days. The entire Lunar New Year holidays usually last 7 to 8 days of the end of the old year and the first 7 days of the new year (December 23 to January 7). Every year, Tet is held on the 1st (or 1st [3]) of the first lunar month in Vietnam and in some other countries where Vietnamese communities live.
- Vietnamese people think that on Tet, everything must be so early and new. [21] Therefore, about 2 weeks before Tet, families have to make preparations for Tet. They often clean, decorate the house, buy flowers, buy food ... very attentive for Tet. In addition, all items that are unnecessary or considered ominous are also thrown out.
+End of the year A family is wrapping banh chung to prepare for the Lunar New Year. Preparatory work for the Vietnamese New Year usually begins on December 23, the day the Vietnamese worship Mr. Tao (Apple Army). Mr. Tao is worshiped at noon or on the afternoon of December 23 of the lunar month every year. The ceremony includes incense (incense), candle, fruit, votive and two men's hats, a woman's hat and three carp (real carp or paper carp attached to the hat). . Before Tet, the Vietnamese also prepared banh chung and banh giay, while in the South, the popular cakes are banh Tet and hearty dishes to present to their ancestors.
+The Year of the End can be either December 30 (for a full year) or December 29 (if it's a pre-year). This is the day when families get together to eat year-end dinner. In this evening, people make year-end offerings. Between December 30 (or 29) and January 1, Rat hour (from 23:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. of the following day), where the start of the day of the 1st January) is the most important moment of Tet. It marks the turn of the old year and the new year, it is called New Year's Eve. To record this moment, people often make two decks of the wheel. An ancestor worshiping tray is at the altar in our house and a heavenly offering tray is in the front yard. .
+Going to clean the altar Vietnamese families often have an altar to their ancestors, grandparents (also called Mr. Vai). The way of decoration and arrangement of altars differs from house to house. Mien, the altar is a place of remembrance, a miniature world of the deceased. Two lights represent the Sun, Moon and incense are stars. One bowl of incense placed in the center (there may be two smaller incense bowls placed symmetrically on the sides). Behind the two lamps, there are usually two paper chrysanthemums with many small flowers surrounding the large flower. . Many families put two plates between the lamp and the incense to place the holiday fruit called the five-fruit tray (depending on each region there is a variation of fruits, but each fruit has its meaning). In front of the incense bowl, put a bowl of clear water to treat it as sacred water.
+Eve Going to see fireworks at New Year's Eve in Vietnam New Year's Eve is a transitional moment between the old year and the new year. During New Year's Eve, everyone in the family often gives each other the best wishes. On this occasion, people often shoot fireworks in wide and airy locations. Offering New Year's Eve is a ceremony to take away all the bad things of the upcoming year to welcome the good things of the coming new year.
+Happy New Year An engraved coin with the word Happy New Year. On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, also known as the Lunar New Year, descendants gather at the patriarch's house to celebrate the Ancestors and wish Tet for the grandparents and the chiefs. According to the conception, every new year comes, each person increases by one year, so the first day of New Year is the day when the children "wish longevity" for grandparents and the elderly (in the old days, the elderly often did not remember the date of birth. so only knowing the coming Tet holiday will increase one year).
+Customary visit Visiting relatives is to bond with relatives. Tet wishes are usually health, prosperity, good luck, all wishes are successful ... Those old years who face risks, encouraging each other to get rid of an accident or change someone else means in The painting also finds happiness, towards goodness. Visit your neighbors and families who live close to your family, wish them good New Year's wishes. These visits help bring people together, remove all the old years' questions, and happily welcome the new year. Visit your friends, colleagues and those close to you to wish them good sentences, help your friendship closer.
+Give someone lucky money Red envelopes hanging on the apricot tree Red packets: Adults often give children money to put in a red paper bag, or "pink bag", called "lucky money" with greetings to be full and big. According to Chinese tales, in the "red bag", there are 8 coins (the eight immortal reincarnation) placed under the child's pillow to ward off demons to harass, because ghosts will fear red paper.
+turn yellow The 4th of January in the ancient calendar is the day of the country. On this day, Vietnamese people make offerings to their ancestors who come to celebrate Tet with their descendants and burn a lot of votive horses so that the ancestors will have more money at the beginning of the year, to bless the descendants of their descendants to do business. . In many areas in the Northern Delta, the Vietnamese have a custom of singing rowing boats to bring the ancestors back to the afterlife. In the golden custom on the 4th or 5th, many families still follow the old tradition: making rice, burning votive votive and sending relatives to the shadows to pray for a lucky new year. According to historian Duong Trung Quoc, customizing gold is based on ancestor worship, materializing gold is often associated with daily life, to see that people in the invisible world live on the other side of the world. On the 4th and 5th of January, people abstain from leaving because this is a bad day.
+Downstairs January 7 (can also be January 6) is the last day of the Tet festival chain. On this day, Vietnamese people hold a ceremony to bring down the Tree, called the Opening Ceremony, which ends the Lunar New Year and starts to do business in the new year from the 8th or 9th of January.
-According to Vietnamese beliefs, New Year's Day is the day of reunification, reunification, the relationship between neighbors and neighbors has been expanded, binding each other into common morality for the whole society: family love, the love of teachers and students, patients with physicians, matchmakers who have worked into couples, friends and mentors ...
