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Tet celebrations in Hoi An
The 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 to join the holiday. The event will feature a banh tet making contest then presenting banh tet to the poor. Last year, the event attracted 30 units and collected more than 6,000 banh tet to give to more than 500 poor households.
At Hoai River Square, the second Hoi An lantern contest will take place on February 13, promising locals and tourists works of artistic lanterns or artistic installations of lanterns. The event also aims to honor the traditional craft of lantern making of Hoi An.
The highlights of New Year’s Eve will be a lion dance, lantern parade and flowered car parade to invite tourists to join the holiday. At the sacred moment of transferring from the old year to the new year, there will be a fireworks display at the provincial culture and sports center in Tam Ky City, Hoai River Square, Cua Dai Beach and Cu Lao Island in Hoi An City while temples, churches and pagodas will ring their bells and beat their drums at the same time to welcome the new year.
During the holiday, there will be many cultural, sports and entertainment programs such as a Chinese chess competition, Hoi An martial arts contest, music contests for young voices, young music bands, young dance bands and fashion shows. There will also be traditional folk game tournaments such as tug of war and day gay (pushing stick), modern games, calligraphy, photos and fine art works.
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Sa Dec’s flower village gets ready for Tet
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 and nourished by the southern sun, is home to hundreds of famous flowers and plants of the region. Considered one of the ornamental plant centers of the southern region, the village covers about 60 hectares with 600 families and nearly 3,600 gardeners.
When the swallows start mating in the spring air, the village is in its festive time with thousands of flowers blossoming and long lines of vehicles to collect ornamental plants to transport to HCMC and other provinces to beautify the traditional holiday.
If you plan to visit the Mekong Delta provinces of Long An and Tien Giang and the region in general, why not spend half an hour to travel about 21 kilometers from My Thuan Bridge to a famous flower village in Dong Thap Province’s Sadec Town.
Here lies a real regional floral paradise in the new spring season. The Tan Quy Dong Flower Village is busy now in the peak flower-growing season to be ready for the coming Tet holiday.
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