These foods include bánh tét, bánh chưng, bánh dày, canh khổ qua, thịt kho hột vịt, dried young bamboo soup ( canh măng), giò, and xôi ( sticky rice). Many Vietnamese prepare for Tết by cooking special holiday food and doing house cleaning. Although Tết is a national holiday among all Vietnamese, each region and religion has its own customs. They also clear up the graves of their families as a sign of respect. Some return to worship at the family altar or visit the graves of their ancestors in their homeland. Vietnamese people usually return to their families during Tết. The word for festival is usually lễ hội, a Sino-Vietnamese word, 禮會. Both words come from Sino-Vietnamese respectively, 節 (SV: tiết) and 元旦. The name Tết is a shortening of Tết Nguyên Đán, literally written as tết (meaning festivals only used in festival names) and nguyên đán which means the first day of the year.
This festival can also be referred to as Hội xuân in vernacular Vietnamese, (festival – lễ hội, spring – mùa xuân). They set aside the trouble of the past year and hope for a better and happier upcoming year. Tết is also an occasion for pilgrims and family reunions. It takes place from the first day of the first month of the Vietnamese lunar calendar (around late January or early February) until at least the third day. Rarely, the dates of Vietnamese and Chinese Lunar New Year can differ as such in 1943, when Vietnam celebrated Lunar New Year, one month after China. Tết is generally celebrated on the same day as Chinese New Year (also called Spring Festival), with the one-hour time difference between Vietnam and China resulting in the new moon occurring on different days. Vietnamese people celebrate Tết annually, which is based on a lunisolar calendar (calculating both the motions of Earth around the Sun and of the Moon around Earth). " Tết" itself only means festival but is often colloquially known as "Lunar New Year" in Vietnamese, as it is often seen as the most important festival amongst the Vietnamese and the Vietnamese diaspora, with Tết Trung Thu regarded as the second-most important. Tết Nguyên Đán is not to be confused with Tết Trung Thu (Mid-Autumn Festival), which is also known as Children's Festival in Vietnam. Tết celebrates the arrival of spring based on the Vietnamese calendar, which is mostly based on the lunisolar Chinese calendar and usually has the date in January or February in the Gregorian calendar. 'Festival of the first day'), is the most important celebration in Vietnamese culture.
Tết ( Vietnamese: ), short for Tết Nguyên Đán ( lit. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of chữ Nôm. The animals were separated into two categories - yin and yang - depending on whether they have an odd or even number of claws, toes or hooves.This article contains chữ Nôm text. The choice of animals is significant - the ox, horse, goat, rooster, pig and dog are six of the main domestic animals raised by Chinese people, while the rat, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake and monkey are all loved by the Chinese. How are the Chinese New Year animals decided? If you're feeling confused, calculate your zodiac sign here.
However, Chinese New Year is a movable celebration, dictated by the lunar cycle, which can fall any time between January 21 and February 20. The animal changes at the beginning of the Chinese New Year, and traditionally these animals were used to date the years.
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