Traditional Vietnamese Lunar New Year

Tết tet or təːt vietnamese new year vietnamese lunar new year or tet holiday is the most important celebration in vietnamese culture.

Traditional vietnamese lunar new year. Although western style outfits are more convenient for daily chores the traditional tunic or ao dai reappears each tet. For vietnamese families rice cakes called bánh chưng and bánh dầy symbolize the material and the spiritual said quyên di chúc bùi a. Peach blossoms on tet tet is the phonetic deformation of tiet a sino vietnamese term which means joint of a bamboostern and in a wider sense the beginning of a period of theyear. In north vietnam the most popular tet dish is bánh chưng a vietnamese rice cake made from glutinous rice beans pork onion salt pepper and other ingredients.

The dates of vietnam lunar new year also called tet holiday differs every year but it generally takes place around late january or february. The first day of the new lunar year occurs on the new moon between january 21 and february 20. Tet nguyen dan or tet is the most important and popular holiday and festival in vietnam.