Tet Holiday
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Tet Holiday
According to the lunar calendar, the next Jan. 30, 2014, no matter what you do, and where you are, you must come home. That day is the Lunar New Year Festival that we call Chinese New Year Day in China and Tet in Vietnam.
On New year ‘s Eve (Jan. 30,2014), people are very busy to prepare for the new year by cooking for the next three days. Housewives are busy to prepare traditional square glutinous rice cake which is filled with green bean paste and pork meat and cooked for twelve hours. People busily clean their houses especially the ancestral altar. Throng of people crowd the stores to buy new clothes. At 11:30 pm, people flock out the streets, downtown to admire the fireworks at midnight and they wish happy New Year to each other even to strangers.
On New Years’ day, early in the morning, members of the family wish happy New Year, good luck, gook health to each other. The children parade around wearing their new clothes. They are overjoyed to receive lucky money in red envelopes from the adults. After that, people go to visit the pagodas, Buddhist temples and pray for a peaceful new year. Subsequently, they visit their relative’s graves and burn incense in commemoration of the dead. Then they go home to take a rest, play cards just for fun, watch TV. etc.
The second day of the New Year is reserved for visiting grandparents, parents, teachers, friends to wish them goo health and good luck. It is also customary to pay a visit to our superiors for example manager or boss if you work in a company or a government organization to wish them success in their business. Furthermore, on this day, farmers also pray for an abundant crop, businessmen for a successful and wealthy year, soldiers for a peaceful year etc.
From the third to the tenth day, the time is dedicated to recreation and relaxation. People travel to famous and beautiful places in and out of the country, such as Ha Long Bay- a very famous beach, King’s palaces, flower
Tet Holiday
According to the lunar calendar, the next Jan. 30, 2014, no matter what you do, and where you are, you must come home. That day is the Lunar New Year Festival that we call Chinese New Year Day in China and Tet in Vietnam.
On New year ‘s Eve (Jan. 30,2014), people are very busy to prepare for the new year by cooking for the next three days. Housewives are busy to prepare traditional square glutinous rice cake which is filled with green bean paste and pork meat and cooked for twelve hours. People busily clean their houses especially the ancestral altar. Throng of people crowd the stores to buy new clothes. At 11:30 pm, people flock out the streets, downtown to admire the fireworks at midnight and they wish happy New Year to each other even to strangers.
On New Years’ day, early in the morning, members of the family wish happy New Year, good luck, gook health to each other. The children parade around wearing their new clothes. They are overjoyed to receive lucky money in red envelopes from the adults. After that, people go to visit the pagodas, Buddhist temples and pray for a peaceful new year. Subsequently, they visit their relative’s graves and burn incense in commemoration of the dead. Then they go home to take a rest, play cards just for fun, watch TV. etc.
The second day of the New Year is reserved for visiting grandparents, parents, teachers, friends to wish them goo health and good luck. It is also customary to pay a visit to our superiors for example manager or boss if you work in a company or a government organization to wish them success in their business. Furthermore, on this day, farmers also pray for an abundant crop, businessmen for a successful and wealthy year, soldiers for a peaceful year etc.
From the third to the tenth day, the time is dedicated to recreation and relaxation. People travel to famous and beautiful places in and out of the country, such as Ha Long Bay- a very famous beach, King’s palaces, flower