Bài mẫu chủ đề tết nguyên đán

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Tết Nguyên Đán, more commonly known by its shortened name Tết, is the most important và popular holiday and festival in Vietnam. It is the Vietnamese New Year marking the arrival of spring based on the Lunar calendar. The name tết Nguyên Đán is Sino-Vietnamese for Feast of the First Morning.

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The dates of Lunar New Year differs every year but it generally takes place around late January or February. Because of the fact that Vietnamese families are so close-knitted, Tet Holiday is considered the best occassion for family members to lớn return home and get together. During Tết, Vietnamese spend time shopping for the New Year, go to Pagodas & Temples. The items of shopping range from food to clothing to lớn decorations for the house. The Vietnamese believe that Tet Holiday is an occasion to enjoy life after a full hard-working year, thus people forget their struggles and focus on making the celebration as festive as possible. Due lớn the high regard in which people hold it, Tết, as often as not, is consumed with unique, distinctive colors và flavors. Let’s take a look at some traditions và customs typical of this special holiday in Vietnam.

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A Family Gathering during Tet Holiday. Photo: tapchitaichinh

1. Food

Bánh bác (Sticky square cake)

Bánh bác is a food made from glutinous rice, mung bean & pork, added with many other ingredients. Bánh chưng is covered by green leaves (usually banana leaves) and symbolizes the Earth, invented by the prince Lang Liêu from Hùng King dynasty. Besides traditional reason, Bánh bác bỏ is chosen as the main food for đầu năm holiday because of it can last long for days in Vietnamese weather (Banh bình thường can survive at room temperature for nearly 1 month).

Giò, chả (Vietnamese sausage)

Giò chả (Vietnamese ham/sausage) is another traditional food in đầu năm mới holiday, and usually served with Xôi (sticky rice) & Bánh Chưng. Giò is different from Chả since Giò is boiled và Chả is deep-fried. Chả is also made of lean pork & ingredients, but Chả is not wrapped by leaves và boiled but deep-fried in oil.

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A family meal during Tet Holiday Photo: Bao Thanh Nien

Thịt kho hột vịt (Braised Pork Belly with Duck Egg)

This dish is more popularly enjoyed in the South than in the North, however, noone can deny the irresistable aroma, flavor và the amazing compatibility of this dish with a bowl of steaming rice. The Pork Belly & Egg is cooked with coconut juice và fish sauce until it becomes tender và absorb all those amazing flavor. The dish is so universal và easy to lớn make that it has become one of the most popular dishes served during Tet Holiday.

Xôi (Sticky rice)

Xôi is also a very important part of Têt holiday in Vietnam, along with Bánh Chưng, xôi is the main staple foods for tết holiday. Xôi can be seen in many forms: Xôi Lạc (sticky rice with peanuts), Xôi Đỗ Xanh (sticky rice with mung bean), Xôi Gấc (sticky rice with special “gấc” fruit). Among these types, xôi gấc is favorite the most by people because of its special red color – symbolizes the luck & new achievement for the New Year.

Mứt (Jam)

Mứt đầu năm (Tết jam) is not a food khổng lồ serve in a meal during đầu năm mới holiday, but more like a snack to lớn welcome guests in this special period. This once-in-year set of snack is very large in variety, with so many tastes: ginger, carrot, coconut, pineapple, pumpkin, lotus seed, star fruit, etc.

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2. Traditional customs 

Even though many Vietnamese traditions are based on old cultural beliefs that may strike some as a little superstitious, families believe that their activities during đầu năm must involve happiness, joy, và good luck. Below are some of the popular, long-standing tết traditional customs that have stood the test of time from generations khổng lồ generations. 

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Older family members give the young lucky money. Photo: Tiep thi va Gia dinh

Giving Lì xì (lucky money)

The first day of đầu năm mới is reserved for the nuclear family. Children receive a red envelope containing money from their elders. This tradition is called thiên lí (happy new age) in the north và lì xì in the south. Usually, children wear their new clothes & give their elders the traditional tết greetings before receiving the money.

Xông nhà

Since the Vietnamese believe that the first visitor a family receives in the year determines their fortune for the entire year, people never enter any house on the first day without being invited first. The act of being the first person to enter a house on tết is called xông đất, xông công ty or sút đất, which is one of the most important rituals during Tết. According lớn Vietnamese tradition, if good things come to the family on the first day of the lunar New Year, the entire following year will also be full of blessings. Usually, a person of good temper, morality and success will be the lucky sign for the host family & be invited first into the house.

During subsequent days, people visit relatives and friends. Traditionally but not strictly, the second & even painting their home in anticipation of spring, settle old debts and disputes, & pledge khổng lồ behave nicely & work hard in the new year.

3. Decorations

Traditionally, each family displays “Cây nêu”, an artificial New Year Tree consisting of a bamboo pole 5 to 6 m long. The vị trí cao nhất end is usually decorated with many objects, depending on the locality, including good luck charms, origami fish, cactus branches, etc.

At đầu năm mới every house is usually decorated by hoa mai – Ochna integerrima (in the central & southern parts of Vietnam) or hoa đào – peach flower (in the northern part of Vietnam) or hoa ban (in mountain areas). In the north or central, the kumquat tree is a popular decoration for the living room during Tết. Its bright orange-colored fruits represent the fertility and fruitfulness that the family hopes for in the coming year.

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Hoa Mai – a symbol of Good Luck in the Tet Holiday. Photo: hoamaitet.com

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Hoa Dao can be seen at Nhat rã flower garden, is a symbol of Tet in the North

 

 

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