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Preparation for the Tet Holiday in Vietnam
Name : Bùi Quỳnh Như
Class : 12DTA01
ID : 1211200015

Preparation for The Tet Holiday in Viet Nam

Tet ( New Year’s Day) is the most important holiday of Vietnamese to celebrate . The Vietnamese think that all things have to be new, fully and lucky for comming year. Therefore Vietnamese prepare carefully to welcome new year. They decorating the home, cooking traditional Tết food, buying flower and everything they need in this holiday.

About 2 week before Tet, Vietnamese will decorate and clean their house . They will re-paint, buy new items and removed those old ones. The home must be beautiful and possible for Tet . Because Vietnamese people have conception that in first 3 days of Tet, everybody not have to cleaning the house, it’s unlucky and not good. One of most important action in decoration list is trees for Tet such as apricot, peach blossom, parallel sentences ,… there are the trees indispenable on Tet holiday, it brings vitality and prosperity to Vietnamese families.
Shopping for Tet is the most interesting activitive. Parents buy new clothes for their children to the children can wear them when Tết arrives. Adults are busy for buying something necessary they can used in New Year's Day. Fruits, flowers, jams are unforgetable things in their shopping list for the Tet. Special thing about fruit, Vietnamese people usually buy 5 kinds of fruit are : custard-apple, fig, coconut, papaw, mango with the desired meaning full life, prosperity and luck in the new year.
Preparing food for Tet is another action. Vegetable pickles, banh Chung, banh Day, banh Tet, simmered meat,…. are popular dish for Tet, preparations for these foods are waste of time, family members often take turns to keep watch on the fire overnight but they can sharing and telling each other stories about Tết of past years, that is the wonderful time.
Seven days before Tet, Vietnamese people will have a custom is the Kitchen God returns to Heaven to report to the Jade Emperor on

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