Celebrating the Lunar New Year in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam has little experience

Vietnam’s traditional New Year is called “Tết Nguyên Đán” and is usually celebrated on the first day of the first lunar month, which is the same date as the Chinese Spring Festival. The Vietnamese New Year, also known as Tet Nguyen or Tết Nguyên Đán, is celebrated together on the first day of the first lunar month each year. Celebrations of this holiday usually last longer than the Chinese Spring Festival, lasting about 10 days.




The Ho Chi Minh City Tourism Department and the Vietnam Food Culture Association (VCCA) organized the 2024 Vietnamese New Year celebration at Le Van Ba Park in District 1 on the evening of January 18. During the event, colorful cultural, food and trade activities enhanced the festive atmosphere of the festival.




The 2024 Vietnamese Spring Festival celebrations are themed "Vietnamese Spring Festival, National Traditional Spring Festival - Carry forward the tradition and build the future". By reproducing the traditional customs of the Spring Festival, the masses and tourists can experience the unique Spring Festival culture of the three regions of northern, central and southern Vietnam. value.




During the 2024 Vietnamese Spring Festival celebrations, the organizing committee also held local product exhibitions in various regions to meet the needs of the masses to buy New Year goods; at the same time, it also carried out a series of meaningful activities such as sending warmth to poor people and left-behind children.




Vietnamese Spring Festival has the following traditional customs:




Purchase New Year's goods: Ten days before the Lunar New Year, every household begins to prepare for the Spring Festival. The main New Year goods during the Vietnamese Spring Festival include food, clothing, flowers, rice dumplings, Spring Festival couplets, etc.
Posting Spring Festival couplets: Symbolizing the beginning of the new year, it is one of the important customs of Vietnam’s Spring Festival.
Fireworks: Vietnamese people will set off fireworks during the Spring Festival to add to the festive atmosphere of the festival.
Visit the flower market: Vietnamese people will visit the flower market during the Spring Festival to buy new year flowers. Northerners like to place peach blossoms, kumquat trees, yellow chrysanthemums, money flowers, etc. during the Lunar New Year, while southerners like to place plum blossoms, orchids, etc.
Eating New Year’s Eve dinner: During the Spring Festival, Vietnamese people gather together as a family to have New Year’s Eve dinner.
Picking green: On New Year’s Eve, there is a traditional custom in Vietnam called “picking green”, which is to take home the broken branches. Since the word "cailu" has the same pronunciation as "cailu", "cailu" symbolizes a prosperous official career and everything goes well in the new year.
Worshiping ancestors: On the morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, every household in Vietnam will worship ancestors, as well as the land, kitchen god, and master of various arts. There is no limit to the number of sacrifices, but they are all formal.