Tet holiday is the special days in Vietnam. It's time to each family remember their ancestors.
Before Tet comes, my family as well as others, we always do house works to welcome a new year appears. Besides, Chung or Tet is the traditional cake of Vietnam. Chung presents for the North, and Tet features for the South and the middle. We stay overnight to cook cake and talk about a previous year, review the memorable moments before that. This time is so special. At 00h o'clock, everybody countdown to say happy new year. My morther usually worship to invite ancestor come home. eveybody call eachother to wish a year with happy, success, health.
after, we go to the others family or ralative relationship to visit eveyone in Tet holiday. we take the blossom or cherry flower to decorate our house to sake up luck.
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, fresh water, 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.
