tet is the biggest traditional festival in Vietnam. This is an opportunity for people to enjoy a happy and relaxing period of time with their family and friends. There are some differences between Tet in the North and the South of Vietnam. In the North, the traditional food of Tet is Chung cake – a rectangular sticky rice cake with meat, which is wrapped in phrynium. People usually buy the cakes with some cherry blossom branches as a symbol of Tet to decorate their houses. In the South, people consider apricots and Tet cakes are the symbols of Tet. Tet cake is also made from sticky rice, and the inside can be sweet beans, bananas, or even meat. On New Year’s Eve, most families gather together to have a warm dinner and a traditional ritual in order to commemorate our ancestors. On the first day of New Year, youngsters will give their best greetings to oldsters and receive lucky money. In the rest time of Tet, people can go to pagodas to pray for good things, peace, and health. Tet is an important occasion for families and friends to be together after a year of hard work, and it can motivate people to try harder in the next year

Tet, also known as Lunar new year festival, is the biggest traditional festival in Viet Nam. Tet is usually from the end of January to early February. Before Tet, Vietnamese prepare many things for the three main days. They clean their house and decorate with flowers such as kumquat tree or peach blossom. A huge amount of food will be bought before Tet for making traditional dishes. Banh Chung, Banh Tet, Gio cha, Xoi and Mut, and candies are the foods that must have on Tet holidays. During Tet, people visit their relatives’ homes and give wishes. However, the Vietnamese believe that the first visitor a family receives in the year determines their fortune for the entire year, people never enter any house on the first day without being invited first. Another custom is giving lucky money, which is put into a red envelope as a symbol of luck and wish for a new age. Traditionally, elders will give lucky money to children and the oldest people in the family. However, nowadays, people can give it to anyone including friends, parents, neighbors. Besides, Vietnamese usually go to pagodas or temples to pray for health, wealth, success. To Vietnamese, Tet is the happiest time of all year around, members in a family can gather together, which is a meaningful messages of Lunar New year festival. All in all, Tet is all about back to origins, be good to others, enjoy the precious moment, and wish for the best to come.

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 envelope. Tet is also a time for peace and love. During Tet, children often behave well and friends, relatives, and neighbors give each other best wishes for the new year.

Traditional Tet is one of the most important festivals of Vietnam. Just like in Western countries that follow Christianity, Christmas is a sacred and important holiday, so is the traditional New Year's Day. Traditional New Year's Day is called Lunar New Year or Lunar New Year, and is considered the most important moment of a year. The time starts on the 1st day of the 1st lunar month of the new year. The Lunar New Year usually falls between the end of January and the middle of February of a calendar year. Normally in Vietnam, every occasion to prepare for the Lunar New Year, everyone, whether working or going to school, has a holiday schedule. Normally, the time off is from one working week or more (for employees) and two to three days before December 30. To prepare for the important Tet holiday of this year, every family often buys a lot of new things, cleans the house, prepares a tray of rice to worship ancestors. And yet, on the traditional New Year's Day, there is also a custom to visit the elderly, family members, friends and neighbors every time Tet comes. At that time, homeowners or adults will give lucky money to children and elders with wishes at the beginning of the new year of peace, prosperity, and everything as desired. This is not only a custom but also a cultural beauty of the Vietnamese people, to show concern and hope for a full and peaceful life for everyone.
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Tết cổ truyền là một trong những lễ hội quan trọng nhất của Việt Nam. Cũng giống như các nước phương tây theo đạo Thiên chúa thì lễ giáng sinh là ngày lễ thiêng liêng và quan trọng thì ngày tết cổ truyền cũng tương tự như vậy. Ngày Tết cổ truyền gọi là Tết Nguyên đán hay tết âm lịch, và được coi là thời khắc quan trọng nhất của một năm. Thời gian bắt đầu vào ngày mùng 1 tháng 1 âm lịch của năm mới. Tết Nguyên đán thường rơi vào khoảng cuối tháng Một đến giữa tháng Hai dương lịch của một năm. Thông thường ở Việt Nam, mỗi dịp chuẩn bị đến Tết Nguyên đán thì mọi người dù làm việc hay đi học đều có lịch nghỉ lễ. Thông thường thời gian được nghỉ là từ một tuần làm việc trở lên (đối với người đi làm) và được nghỉ trước ngày 30 tháng chạp từ hai đến ba ngày. Để chuẩn bị cho ngày Tết quan trọng của năm này thì mọi nhà thường sắm sửa rất nhiều đồ mới, dọn dẹp nhà cửa, chuẩn bị mâm cơm thờ cúng ông bà tổ tiên. Chưa hết, ngày Tết cổ truyền còn có một phong tục thăm hỏi người lớn tuổi, người thân trong gia đình, bạn bè, hàng xóm mỗi khi Tết đến xuân về. Khi đó gia chủ hoặc người lớn sẽ lì xì cho trẻ con và người lớn tuổi cùng những lời chúc vào đầu năm mới an khang thịnh vượng, vạn sự như ý. Đây không chỉ là phong tục mà còn là nét đẹp văn hóa của người Việt, để thể hiện quan tâm, hy vọng có một cuộc sống đủ đầy và bình an cho mọi người.