THE VIETNAMESE NEW YEAR Preparation for Tet cleaning their houses, polishing their copper and silverware and paying off all their debts. Decorating the tree with bells, flowers, and red streamers | Lưu Thùy Dung Nguyễn Thị Hà (14-05) Nguyễn Thị Hảo Lê Thị Hằng CONTENT Tradition of Tet , the Vietnamese New Year Chinese New Year traditions ??????? I: THE VIETNAMESE NEW YEAR Preparation for Tet cleaning their houses, polishing their copper and silverware and paying off all their debts. Decorating the tree with bells, flowers, and red streamers Packaging Chung’s cakes materials: green beans, glutinous rice salt, fresh pork meat , , fish sauce and pepper and pepper, leaves from arrowroot from arrowroot .arrowrootarrowroot Preparing some food such as vermicelli noodles, pickled onions, dried bamboo shoot soup, boiled chicken, steamed momordica glutinous rice . Fruits of Tet: The “five fruit tray” on the ancestral altar during the Tet Holidays symbolizes the admiration and gratitude of the Vietnamese to Heaven and Earth and their ancestors and demonstrates their aspiration for a life of plenty. Watermelon is considered lucky because the flesh is red, so the choice of the melon must be | Lưu Thùy Dung Nguyễn Thị Hà (14-05) Nguyễn Thị Hảo Lê Thị Hằng CONTENT Tradition of Tet , the Vietnamese New Year Chinese New Year traditions ??????? I: THE VIETNAMESE NEW YEAR Preparation for Tet cleaning their houses, polishing their copper and silverware and paying off all their debts. Decorating the tree with bells, flowers, and red streamers Packaging Chung’s cakes materials: green beans, glutinous rice salt, fresh pork meat , , fish sauce and pepper and pepper, leaves from arrowroot from arrowroot .arrowrootarrowroot Preparing some food such as vermicelli noodles, pickled onions, dried bamboo shoot soup, boiled chicken, steamed momordica glutinous rice . Fruits of Tet: The “five fruit tray” on the ancestral altar during the Tet Holidays symbolizes the admiration and gratitude of the Vietnamese to Heaven and Earth and their ancestors and demonstrates their aspiration for a life of plenty. Watermelon is considered lucky because the flesh is red, so the choice of the melon must be taken carefully so as to find one rich in color. The seeds are often dyed red also and served as delicacies Preserved fruit (Mut) Prepare a week before Tet. The most important thing is to maintain the shape of the fruit. Use apple, potato, tomato, plum, ginger, mandarin, or gourd. Flowers – the symbol of New Year 2: NEW YEAR EVE The Giao Thua is the most sacred point of time, the passage from the old to the new year. every home makes offerings in the open air to pray for a good new year. 3: ACTIVITIES DURING TET HOLLIDAY On the first day of the New Year they visit all their closest friends, teachers and their parents. The second day they visit their in-laws and other friends who are not as close. Third day they visit the family of their teacher and their more distant relatives. On the fourth day the spirits return to heaven and business returns to normal. Adult usually give red packets, Lucky money for children . They also visit their local temple and they bring back flowers or .
