- Tet - Vietnamese and Chinese New Year- With a history that dates back thousands of years, the Tet festival was originally a celebration held by Vietnamese farmers to thank the gods for the arrival of spring, sometime between late January or early February. - Gifts of food are made to friends, neighbors and relatives in the days before Tet.. - The essence of Tet-Trung-Thu - celebrated on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month - is to promote education, culture, music, sports, arts and crafts, and poetry.. - Vietnam has many traditional and religious holidays but none can be compared to New Year festival, Tet Nguyen-Dan or, in short, Tet.. - Tet starts on the first day of the first lunar month and is the first season of the new year (according to the lunar calendar).. - nostalgia, wishing to come back to their homeland for a family reunion and a taste of the particular flavours of the Vietnamese festivities.. - The first signs of the impending holiday show up a month before Tet. - Workmen start building stalls near the markets to sell holiday items such as New Year''s greeting cards, candied fruits and. - People buy new clothes, exchange greeting cards, wish each other Happy New Year Chuc Mung Nam Moi).. - It''s auspicious if the branches bloom on the first morning of Tet:. - apricot blossoms are reputed to keep demons out of the homes at this time. - They also buy fruits with names reminding of their wishes for the coming year.. - At midnight on New Year’s Eve, a ceremony called "Giao Thua". - is held in which a sacrifice for the spirits and the ancestors is made on a lovely candle-lit altar in the open air near the home.. - There, they place incense before the altar and pray for the prosperity of the new year. - When they leave the pagoda, another new bud is picked from a plant or tree and placed on the top of a column at their home on returning. - Dishes of special foods are prepared to be placed on the family altar for the ancestors who are back in the home during Tet.. - Everyone offers each other New Year wishes, and the children are given lucky red envelopes containing money.. - On the fourth day of Tet, the Vietnamese believe that their. - Compare how people celebrate it now with how people may have celebrated it in the past.. - How might this festival change in the future?. - The growing popularity of Western festivals, like Christmas or New Year Festival will somehow reduce the meanings and make some activities in Tet lose its unique character: Family reunion, house redecoration, giving lucky money, for instance, can take place in the above occasions instead of Tet.. - Festivals have long been considered the traditional cultural activity of the Vietnamese people. - the rite of worshipping the Moon Genie, welcome the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. - Apart from the Lunar New Year, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the most impressive event for the Vietnamese, particularly the children.. - There is no other event in the year other than this festival that. - About half a month before the event, various kinds of colourful items, mostly cakes, candies and toys, are displayed for sale along the streets, in the shops and at the markets . - On the festive day, some families cook outstanding food to offer their ancestors during the daytime. - In the evening, the mid-autumn festive party is prepared with cakes, candies and fruits. - is the banh deo (glutinous-rice dumplings) and banh nuong (cakes) in the shape of the moon and fish. - The Festival is exceptionally interesting for the children who play happily with the bright new toys. - This is understandable due to the economic improvements of the people. - Whether organized in the city. - or countryside, the preserved tradition of the Mid-Autumn Festival is reflected in the way the children play games such as seek-and-hide, lion dancing, lantern marching, etc.. - The welcome-the-moon party in the evening is a good opportunity for the children not only to enjoy the food, but also to learn more from their grandparents and parents. - party in the most attractive way. - children of the high achievements to be obtained in their studies. - The time to start enjoying the party is solemnly shared by the whole family and becomes the most sacred moment of the Mid-Autumn Festival. - In the bright moonlight, clear sky and fresh environment, everybody is relaxed with a pure and detached joy.. - The Wedding day is usually chosen well in advance by the groom and the bride''s parents.. - On the wedding day, the groom''s family and relatives go to the bride''s house bringing a lot of gifts wrapped in red papers. - These gifts are similar to those of the engagement: betel leaves and areca nuts, wines, fruits, cakes, tea. - The groom''s family would stop in the font of the bride''s house. - They would invite the bride''s parents to take a sip. - By accepting the toast, the bride''s family agree for the groom family to enter their house.. - The Master of the Ceremony (usually a respected person among the bride''s relatives) instructs the bride''s parents to present their daughter.. - The bride then follows her parents out. - The wedding ceremony starts in front of the altar. - The bride and the groom would kneel down and pray, asking their ancestors''. - The couple then turn around and bow down to the bride''s parents to say thank for raising and protecting her since birth.. - The groom and the bride then exchange their wedding rings.. - However, they still maintain Vietnamese traditional ceremony in the bride''s home before heading to temples or churches.
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