Setting up New Year trees At the end of the preparation for the Tet, a piece of bare bamboo (4-5 meters long) will be set up, with a little bunch of leaves on the tip, and a basket holding some fish and bells made of baked clay, acting as the marks that lead the ancestors' spirits their way home to reunion with the living
Couplet It's an indispensable tradition that every family would put up a couplet on the two sides of the main entrance door. The sentences are usually written in two parts. Words of one part must have the opposite meaning to the other part and obey some specific matching rules, which create an easy-pronounced effect. And you can find these traditional couplets written on red paper and being sold on both sides of the street, forming a happy atmosphere.
- Family customs and traditions: (Phong tục và truyền thống gia đình:)
+ have dinner together (ăn tối cùng nhau)
+ go to the cinema at weekends (đi xem phim vào cuối tuần)
+ visit relatives at weekends (tới thăm họ hàng vào cuối tuần)
+ celebrate birthdays of family members (tổ chức sinh nhật cho các thành viên trong gia đình)
- Social customs and traditions: (Phong tục và truyền thống xã hội:)
+ have fireworks on New Year's Eve (bắn pháo hoa vào đêm giao thừa)
+ decorate the house for Tet (trang trí nhà cửa đón Tết)
+ bring presents when visiting someone's house (mang theo quà khi đến thăm nhà ai đó)