Tet is a national and family festival.

It is an occasion for every Vietnamese to have a

good time while thinking about the last year and the next year. At Tet, spring fairs are
organized, streets, and public buildings are brightly decorated and almost all shops are
crowded with people shopping for Tet. At home, every is tidied, special food is cooked,
offerings of food, freshwater, flowers, and betel are made on the family altar with
burning joss-sticks scenting the air.
First-footing is made when the lucky visitor comes and children are given lucky money
wrapped in a red tiny envelop. Tet is also a time for peace and love. During Tet, children
often behave well and friends, relatives, and neighbors give each other best for the new
year.

Tet is a national festival for Vietnamese. This is an opportunity for every us to appreciate
the past year and looking forward to the new year. At Tet, each locality organizes spring
fairs, decorates streets and public buildings brightly, and virtually all shops at stores for
Tet. Furthermore, every family cleans and washes their dwellings; prepares traditional
foods and fruit for placing on ancestral altars. One of the old Vietnamese customs on the
first day of the new year was first-footing. The first-footing is taken by the first fortunate
visitor who enters the house and gives the children lucky money. Finally, Tet is an
occasion for people who work far away to return their home, relatives, and neighbors to
offer each other the best wishes for the New Year.

Eat well sleep well have fun day by day

Study hard work hard make money more and more
Từ vựng mùng 1 Tết
Lucky money & Red envelope
Calligraphy thư pháp
Firecracker pháo hoa
Distich câu đối

Fat meat, pickled onions, red parallel sentences.

New Year pole, strings of firecrackers, green banh Chung.

Thịt mỡ dưa hành câu đổi đỏ

Cây nêu tràng pháo bánh chưng xanh

“Eat Well Sleep Well Have Fun Day by Day” – “Study Hard Work Hard Make Money More and More”

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