Lunar New Year Festival often falls between late January and early February; it is among the most important holidays in Vietnam. Officially, the festival includes the 1st, 2nd and 3rd day in Lunar Calendar; however, Vietnamese people often spend about nearly a month to celebrate this special event.
Tet Holiday gets its beginning marked with the first day in the Lunar Year; however, its preparation starts long before that. One week before the holiday, in the 23rd day of the last Lunar month, is East Day—a ritual worshiping Kitchen Gods (Tao Cong). It is believed that each year on this day, these Gods go to heaven to tell Jade Emperor about all activities of households on earth. On the New Year’s Eve, they return to earth to continue their duties as taking care of families.
On the New Year’s Day, the first ones who come to visit households—called first-foot—are very important and hence need to be well chosen, as they are believed to hold in their hands the entire luck of the family in New Year (Tan Nien). After that, till the third day or even the fourth day of Tet, individuals meet relatives, friends and colleagues, wishing them all kinds of good things happiness, health and success.
Mid_Autumn festival is one of the popular celebrations in the Viet Nam. Every year,it's on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. It's organized so that people celebrate the largest full moon in the year. In that festival, children wear masks, parade on the street have parties with special cakes and lots of fruits.
I feel happy when taking part in it because it makes me exited and helps me remember about my childish
I live in Ho Chi Minh City, and Tet holiday in the city is very bustling occasion. Within a month before the Lunar New Year, the streets are very crowded, many people go out to do shopping and enjoy the holiday scenery. My parents are busy cleaning the house, and I am busy thinking about what to wear and where to go. Right after we have a break from school, my friends and I spend most of the time on Nguyen Hue Flower Street to take pictures. However, Nguyen Hue Street is not the only beautiful place, almost everywhere in the main streets are wonderful for people to have great pictures. They are beautifully decorated with bright lights, and the apricot blossom - the symbol of New Year's Day can be found everywhere. On New Year's Eve, my family and I watch fireworks from Sai Gon Bridge; we have to go there before nine o’clock to get a good spot. Early in the first morning of the year, we go to the pagoda to pray for peace and health, and then I accompany my parents to visit my grandparents and relatives. Tet is my favorite holiday because it is an occasion to enjoy the festive atmosphere, delicious food, and receive lucky money. I wish that Tet could last for a month.
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 sky 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 sky 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.
In Tet holiday, we tell best wishes to our family and relatives to get lucky money. We burn incense to worship our ancestors and hope for luckiness. After that, we go to the flower market to take some photos and visit the pagoda to pray for happiness. The streets are decorated with a lot of lights and peach blossoms. There are many Tet songs which are opened or sang so as to create a joyful atmosphere. We also hang out with friends to visit our teachers and have a party. For instance, we join in many traditional games and activities such as blind man’s bluff, lion dances and wrestling.
Every year winter passed, carrying the cold of it, is bustling around preparing to welcome a fresh flowers next spring. And of course, the yellow apricot trees loaded with fresh flowers sunny Southern fibers with bright pink peach trees bring beauty cold tender for the domain are two indispensable.
Did not know how now, beautiful golden apricot trees appeared before me at home. Just remember that brief, his grandfather brought it on when going out New Year market. Listen to your mother said, was to bring it about, it's really very small. Yet now, it was a beautiful apricot trees, charming. Radiating trunk branches each branch is a lot of fresh flowers. The petite flower buds are pink sapphire carrier shy, waiting to be uncovered. Each flower bud is a red flame, miracles brought to light last year.
Every year the festival is bordered on two brothers with stripped leaves the airport tomorrow. Old leaves, young leaves, fallen leaves as many as sifting down, covering the whole tree. It looks a green carpet. When stripped of all leaves, apricot trees are left bare body carrying a plate full of flower buds. nearly 29 festival, apricot trees start to grow leaves. The young leaves on the trees gradually grow tight. Foil and velvety.
1st Year, apricot trees begin to flower. The shy bud any day now in full bloom, showing bright yellow sheet of it in the sun shimmering on New Year's. In mai petals spreading wide. Each flower has a green calyx caught at the bottom. Inh beautiful pistil, the stigma small orange yarn, mixed with yellow apricot flowers characteris of creating beauty shimmering apricot trees. When the wind comes, apricot flowers sent away by the wind and slightly sweet fragrance of it. Ecsta aroma, can not describe the appeal of it. And every time the wind through the surf, the gently flew off tomorrow with the wind, beautiful magical fairy paintings. When the wind settled that, the flowers come again fell to the ground, forming a carpet of gold as the sun cover.
1st Year, three to play, choose a beautiful apricot branches into evidence at the altar grandmother. It's nothing more beautiful. It is through this that the lunar new apricot trees, the family has received many admiring eyes and admiration.
I love this apricot tree cover IET, it has brought my family complete cosme beauty. It is also the beauty of the traditional homeland of Vietnam, home of the South.
