Before the Lunar New Year comes, it is a tradition for every Chinese family to thoroughly cleanse the house. Families will clean their clothes, bedclothes, and all their utensils in order to sweep away any ill-fortune and to make way for good incoming luck. Then people begin decorating their clean rooms with an atmosphere of rejoicing and festivity. All the door panels will be pasted with Spring Festival couplets, highlighting Chinese calligraphy with black characters on red paper. The content varies from house owners’ wishes for a bright future to good luck for the New Year. Also, pictures of the god of doors and wealth will be posted on front doors to ward off evil spirits and welcome peace and abundance. Windows will be decorated with red color paper-cuts with popular themes of good fortune, happiness, wealth, and longevity. All the trimmings are red to scare away the monster as it is afraid of the color red. People also have debts paid or repaid and will visit the barber for haircuts and hair-does that will be necessary as a custom. This tradition is gladly obeyed as it symbolizes a fresh start. New clothes will be sewn or purchased as another preparation. New clothing in the special red color are bought and will be worn for the first time in the early hours of the new year. Not only does the red color scare the monster, but the new cloth also symbolizes a new start. Setting off firecrackers and fireworks has been the most practiced custom during the Spring Festival. It is believed that doing so helps keep (the evil beast) away, as well as other evil spirits in general. Once in the mid-1990s, the government took a safety, noise, and pollution factors into consideration and banned fireworks in major cities. Now, however, almost all cities have lifted the ban to give way for such a long-held tradition around Spring Festival.

In Vietnam, an ancient country with thousands of special spring festivals that not all countries have, one of which is Tet. Before the Lunar New Year, Vietnamese families clean and sanitize their houses and things in the last days of the year in the sense of rearranging things that are not good. When Tet comes, when Spring comes, Vietnamese people everywhere welcome joyfully. This is an opportunity for you to reunite with loved ones and enjoy the warm family atmosphere together. According to tradition, by the 23rd of December of the lunar calendar, Vietnamese families will clean the kitchen, buy goldfish to worship to send Mr. Cong and Mr. Tao to heaven. Families often pack banh chung from the 27th, 28th and 29th of Tet. The five-fruit tray placed on the ancestor's altar is an indispensable custom in the Vietnamese New Year's Day to pray for a peaceful, lucky, happy, peaceful, and rich new year. Harvesting is usually done on New Year's Eve or early the morning of the first day of the New Year to pray for good luck, pick it up in the house. Usually on the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, children and grandchildren will come to wish longevity, celebrate the age of their grandparents and parents. On the same day, Vietnamese people often choose a beautiful time, a beautiful direction suitable for their age to travel with the hope of having good luck every time they leave the house. Vietnamese people often go to pagodas at the beginning of the year not only to pray for a new year of luck, fortune and show their respect to the Buddha and their ancestors. Thanks for listening