TET NEW YEAR, ANCIENT CUSTOMS

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TweetFor the Vietnamese people, Tet is the most sacred time of the year. On lunar New Year’s Eve, each member of a family and of society exchange sincere good wishes, strengthening common cultural ties. Tet is also time to reflect …

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Tet New Year Holiday (Vietnam) – Family Reunion

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Tet – Vietnamese and Chinese Lunar New Year, is the most important Festival of Vietnamese people. This scared Festival sometime between late January or early February (depend on Lunar Calendar ) and Tet has become so familiar to the Vietnamese that when Spring arrives, the Vietnamese, wherever they may be, are all thrilled and excited with the advent of Tet, and they feel an immense nostalgia, wishing to come back to their homeland for a family reunion and a taste of the particular flavours of the Vietnamese festivities..

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Tet celebrations in Hoi An

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TweetThe annual banh tet (glutinous rice cake filled with green bean paste and pork fat) festival for the poor will open February 13, New Year’s Eve, at the Hoi An Museum of History and Culture giving the poor a chance …

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Sa Dec’s flower village gets ready for Tet

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Tweet Tan Quy Dong Flower Village, located in Sadec Town in the Mekong Delta’s Dong Thap Province, is busy in the peak flower-growing season to brace for the coming Tet holiday. The village, watered by the silt rich Tien River …

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