Tet Holiday is the biggest annual celebration of Vietnam in the first days of lunar New Year. During these days, people welcome a new coming year with good health, lucks and success. Tet holiday is very special for Vietnamese families to reunite and celebrate together.
The preparation for Tet holiday is taken place very soon because it requires many steps. All members of families clean and redecorate their houses together. Then, they buy food, drink such as cookies, sweets, candied fruit, melon seeds...to offer their guests and to store because in this occasion, many shops are closed. A branch of peach flower or a kumquat tree cannot be absent from every home during these special days. Children are the most eager, as their parents will buy them new clothes. In addition to buying things, many Vietnamese families make Chung cake, pickled onion, frozen meat, which are our country's traditional food on Tet holiday. We decorate ancestral altars with a five-fruit tray, vegetables, sweets, and flowers.
In the last day of the previous year, people become more excited as they feel that the New Year is very near to them. Everybody all waits for the sacred moment when the clock points 0 am and fireworks light up everywhere to wish for health, lucks and happiness in the next year. Streets are extremely crowded. On contrary, in the first morning of the year, everything seems peaceful and quiet as people want to sleep longer to enjoy the moment with their cozy family. However, there are some families getting up early to come back to their hometown to visit their ancestors' graves and relatives. From noon on, everybody go to their neighbors' houses to wish them a happy new year. Children in new clothes are very excited, as they will get lucky money from adults.
There are many activities to welcome new coming spring in this occasion. Children usually take up pens to write their first essay, hoping for good results in school. In spring festivals, everyone especially the young takes part in the traditional games such as rollercoaster, tug of war, cooking rice, cock fighting etc. to express their happiness while farmers wish for bumper crops. Women often go to pagodas to show Buddha their hearts and wish their families good things and power to avoid bad lucks. During the first days of New Year, Vietnamese people do things that are supposed to be good for themselves and their loved ones such as wearing red clothes, buying salt, taking chance or praying... and avoid saying taboos(related to death, breaking...). Each region in Vietnam has it own customs to celebrate Tet, which are very special and unique.
"Tet" is the word that is very familiar to Vietnamese people whenever we think about our country. This is the time for family reunion, for festivals, and for people to give love to their loved one. As for me, I enjoy the warm and cozy Tet's atmosphere when all members of my family stay and talk together.
Everyyear there are many special occasions in VN, but TET holiday is considered the most significant event to Vietnamese. It's about in towards end of January to February. In that time, all vietnamese family members try to come back their homes and get together .Last tet holiday, I also had a good time with my family.to prepare for tet, I and my sister bought many things such as: new clothes, foods, fruits... We also bought much paints to repair my house. The kumquat tree and peach flower are the most important things that can't lack in my family. after cleaning the house, my parents taught to make Chung cake. It seemed so hard to me
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.
