Foreign diplomats based in Ho Chi Minh City and business executives gathered recently to celebrate Tet (Lunar New Year). The attendees included Vincent Floreani, the French consul general, Mary Tarnowka, the executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam and former consul general of the US and executives from the EU-Vietnam Business Network, the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam and the Business Executive Network Vietnam. In photo: Mary Tarnowka (2nd right), executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam and former consul general of the US in Ho Chi Minh City, experience some Tet customs of Vietnamese people. (Photo: Vietnam+) 
Participants took part in traditional Tet activities like making banh chung (square sticky rice cake), learning Vietnamese calligraphy, nhay sap (bamboo dancing), and listening to folk songs and chau van (spiritual singing). Their children got to play with traditional the Vietnamese toy, to he, which are small, colourful figurines of heroes, animals, flowers, and fairies made from glutinous rice powder. Tet dishes like banh chung, thit kho trung (caramelised braised pork and eggs, canh mang (bamboo shoot soup), and dua hanh (pickled welsh onion) were made on the occasion. Vincent Floreani, the French Consul General says he was “overwhelmed” by the celebration, getting a chance to wear an ao dai and enjoy banh chung and the rest of the traditional Tet feast. (Photo: Vietnam+) 
Tet (Lunar New Year) is always a time for Vietnamese families to get together, pay obeisance to ancestors, the Kitchen Gods and other deities, cook special dishes, wear new clothes, present gifts, visit friends and relatives and receive special guests in the belief that they are a harbinger of good times. Although the way Vietnamese celebrate the Tet (Lunar New Year) Festival has changed, they still maintain the tradition of preparing offerings for ancestor worship and buying new domestic utensils well ahead of time. The long-standing traditional customs should be preserved as Tet helps to improve Vietnam’s social relationships, makes people friendlier and brings them closer to each other. In the photo: Foreign diplomats based in HCM City and business executives take part in traditional in Tet activities. (Photo: Vietnam+) 
The Tet celebration was attended by Vincent Floreani, the French consul general, Mary Tarnowka, the executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam and former consul general of the US and executives from the EU-Vietnam Business Network, the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam and the Business Executive Network Vietnam. All in ao dai (Vietnamese traditional dress), they were joined by Le Thi Quynh Trang, chairwoman of Vietnam International Fashion Week (VIFW) and president of the Council of ASEAN Fashion Designers, and a number of fashion designers. They took part in traditional Tet activities like making banh chung (square sticky rice cake), learning Vietnamese calligraphy, nhay sap (bamboo dancing), and listening to folk songs and chau van (spiritual singing). (Photo: Vietnam+) 
For Vietnamese people, Tet (Lunar New Year) festival is the most significant holiday of the year. ‘Tet’ with traditional practices and interesting activities attracts huge attention of foreign diplomats based in HCM City and business executives. They have gathered in an event called ‘Tet celebration’ in Ho Chi Minh City recently to celebrate Tet (Lunar New Year). The attendees included Vincent Floreani, the French consul general, Mary Tarnowka, the executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam and former consul general of the US and executives from the EU-Vietnam Business Network, the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam and the Business Executive Network Vietnam. (Photo: Vietnam+) 
This is the second time ‘Tet Celebration’ has been organised. The event with traditional practices and interesting activities attracts huge attention of foreign diplomats based in HCM City and business executives. Le Thi Quynh Trang, chairwoman of Vietnam International Fashion Week (VIFW) and president of the Council of ASEAN Fashion Designers, the host of the event, said: ‘The year 2020 was a tough year to everyone. Tet is an important and sacred time for Vietnamese people, but many foreigners could not return home due to COVID-19. The celebration is an opportunity for expatriates to discover Vietnamese traditions and culture. We hope they have a happy and prosperous year,’ she said. (Photo: Vietnam+) 
Participants took part in traditional Tet activities like making banh chung (square sticky rice cake), learning Vietnamese calligraphy, nhay sap (bamboo dancing), and listening to folk songs and chau van (spiritual singing). Their children got to play with traditional the Vietnamese toy, to he, which are small, colourful figurines of heroes, animals, flowers, and fairies made from glutinous rice powder. Tet dishes like banh chung, thit kho trung (caramelised braised pork and eggs, canh mang (bamboo shoot soup), and dua hanh (pickled welsh onion) were made on the occasion. For Vietnamese people, Tet (Lunar New Year) festival is the most significant holiday of the year. (Photo: Vietnam+) 
‘Tet’ with traditional practices and interesting activities attracts huge attention of foreign diplomats based in HCM City and business executives. Participants took part in traditional Tet activities like making banh chung (square sticky rice cake), learning Vietnamese calligraphy, nhay sap (bamboo dancing), and listening to folk songs and chau van (spiritual singing). Tet dishes like banh chung, thit kho trung (caramelised braised pork and eggs, canh mang (bamboo shoot soup), and dua hanh (pickled welsh onion) were made on the occasion. In the photo: Children play with traditional Vietnamese toy, to he, which are small, colourful figurines of heroes, animals, flowers, and fairies made from glutinous rice powder. (Photo: Vietnam+) 
‘Tet celebration’ with traditional practices and interesting activities attracts huge attention of foreign diplomats based in Ho Chi Minh City and business executives. Participants took part in traditional activities during Tet like making banh chung (square sticky rice cake), learning Vietnamese calligraphy, nhay sap (bamboo dancing), and listening to folk songs and chau van (spiritual singing). Their children got to play with traditional Vietnamese toy, to he, which are small, colourful figurines of heroes, animals, flowers, and fairies made from glutinous rice powder. After the opening ceremony, participants join a fashion show entitled “Nang Xuan” (literally Spring Lady) of “four-piece” ao dai. (Photo: Vietnam+) 
‘Tet’ with traditional practices and interesting activities attracts huge attention of Foreign diplomats based in HCM City and business executives. Participants took part in traditional in Tet activities like making banh chung (square sticky rice cake), learning Vietnamese calligraphy, nhay sap (bamboo dancing), and listening to folk songs and chau van (spiritual singing). Tet dishes like banh chung, thit kho trung (caramelised braised pork and eggs, canh mang (bamboo shoot soup), and dua hanh (pickled welsh onion) were made on the occasion. Their children play with traditional the Vietnamese toy, to he, which are small, colourful figurines of heroes, animals, flowers, and fairies made from glutinous rice powder. (Photo: Vietnam+) 
The attendees included Vincent Floreani, the French consul general, Mary Tarnowka, the executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam and former consul general of the US and executives from the EU-Vietnam Business Network, the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam and the Business Executive Network Vietnam. All in ao dai (Vietnamese traditional dress), they were joined by Le Thi Quynh Trang, chairwoman of Vietnam International Fashion Week (VIFW) and president of the Council of ASEAN Fashion Designers, and a number of fashion designers. They took part in traditional Tet activities like making banh chung (square sticky rice cake), learning Vietnamese calligraphy, nhay sap (bamboo dancing), and listening to folk songs and chau van (spiritual singing). (Photo: Vietnam+) 
This is the second time ‘Tet Celebration’ has been organised. The event with traditional practices and interesting activities attracts huge attention of Foreign diplomats based in HCM City and business executives. Le Thi Quynh Trang, chairwoman of Vietnam International Fashion Week (VIFW) and president of the Council of ASEAN Fashion Designers, the host of the event, said: ’The year 2020 was a tough year to everyone. Tet is an important and sacred time for Vietnamese people, but many foreigners could not return home due to COVID-19. The celebration is an opportunity for expatriates to discover Vietnamese traditions and culture. We hope they have a happy and prosperous year,’ she said. (Photo: Vietnam+) 
‘Tet’ with traditional practices and interesting activities attracts huge attention of foreign diplomats based in HCM City and business executives. Participants took part in traditional in Tet activities like making banh chung (square sticky rice cake), learning Vietnamese calligraphy, nhay sap (bamboo dancing), and listening to folk songs and chau van (spiritual singing). Tet dishes like banh chung, thit kho trung (caramelised braised pork and eggs, canh mang (bamboo shoot soup), and dua hanh (pickled welsh onion) were made on the occasion. Delphin Rousselet, Project Director EU-Vietnam Business Network, said this is her second time attending an event celebrating Vietnamese traditional Lunar New Year. She voiced her admiration to the host as they have managed to promote Vietnamese culture to the world. (Photo: Vietnam+) 
Tet (Lunar New Year) is always a time for Vietnamese families to get together, pay obeisance to ancestors, the Kitchen Gods and other deities, cook special dishes, wear new clothes, present gifts, visit friends and relatives and receive special guests in the belief that they are a harbinger of good times. Although the way Vietnamese celebrate the Tet (Lunar New Year) Festival has changed, they still maintain the tradition of preparing offerings for ancestor worship and buying new domestic utensils well ahead of time. The long-standing traditional customs should be preserved as Tet helps to improve Vietnam’s social relationships, makes people friendlier and brings them closer to each other. In the photo: Participants experience wrapping ‘banh chung’ (squared sticky rice cake). (Photo: Vietnam+) 
Participants took part in traditional Tet activities like making banh chung (square sticky rice cake), learning Vietnamese calligraphy, nhay sap (bamboo dancing), and listening to folk songs and chau van (spiritual singing). Their children got to play with traditional the Vietnamese toy, to he, which are small, colourful figurines of heroes, animals, flowers, and fairies made from glutinous rice powder. Tet dishes like banh chung, thit kho trung (caramelised braised pork and eggs, canh mang (bamboo shoot soup), and dua hanh (pickled welsh onion) were made on the occasion. Vincent Floreani, the French consul gen says he was “overwhelmed” by the celebration, getting a chance to wear an ao dai and enjoy banh chung and the rest of the traditional Tet feast. (Photo: Vietnam+) 
The attendees included Vincent Floreani, the French consul general, Mary Tarnowka, the executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam and former consul general of the US and executives from the EU-Vietnam Business Network, the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam and the Business Executive Network Vietnam. All in ao dai (Vietnamese traditional dress), they were joined by Le Thi Quynh Trang, chairwoman of Vietnam International Fashion Week (VIFW) and president of the Council of ASEAN Fashion Designers, and a number of fashion designers. They took part in traditional Tet activities like making banh chung (square sticky rice cake), learning Vietnamese calligraphy, nhay sap (bamboo dancing), and listening to folk songs and chau van (spiritual singing). (Photo: Vietnam+) 
Tet’ with traditional practices and interesting activities attracts huge attention of foreign diplomats based in HCM City and business executives. Participants took part in traditional in Tet activities like making banh chung (square sticky rice cake), learning Vietnamese calligraphy, nhay sap (bamboo dancing), and listening to folk songs and chau van (spiritual singing). Their children got to play with traditional the Vietnamese toy, to he, which are small, colourful figurines of heroes, animals, flowers, and fairies made from glutinous rice powder. Tet dishes like banh chung, thit kho trung (caramelised braised pork and eggs, canh mang (bamboo shoot soup), and dua hanh (pickled welsh onion) were made on the occasion. (Photo: Vietnam+) 
The attendees included Vincent Floreani, the French consul general, Mary Tarnowka, the executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam and former consul general of the US and executives from the EU-Vietnam Business Network, the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam and the Business Executive Network Vietnam. All in ao dai (Vietnamese traditional dress), they were joined by Le Thi Quynh Trang, chairwoman of Vietnam International Fashion Week (VIFW) and president of the Council of ASEAN Fashion Designers, and a number of fashion designers. They took part in traditional Tet activities like making banh chung (square sticky rice cake), learning Vietnamese calligraphy, nhay sap (bamboo dancing), and listening to folk songs and chau van (spiritual singing). (Photo: Vietnam+) 
Participants took part in traditional in Tet activities like making banh chung (square sticky rice cake), learning Vietnamese calligraphy, nhay sap (bamboo dancing), and listening to folk songs and chau van (spiritual singing). Their children got to play with traditional the Vietnamese toy, to he, which are small, colourful figurines of heroes, animals, flowers, and fairies made from glutinous rice powder. Tet dishes like banh chung, thit kho trung (caramelised braised pork and eggs, canh mang (bamboo shoot soup), and dua hanh (pickled welsh onion) were made on the occasion. The attendees included Vincent Floreani, the French consul general, Mary Tarnowka, the executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam and former consul general of the US and executives from the EU-Vietnam Business Network, the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam and the Business Executive Network Vietnam. (Photo: Vietnam+) 
‘Tet’ with traditional practices and interesting activities attracts huge attention of foreign diplomats based in HCM City and business executives. They have gathered in an event called ‘Tet celebration’ in Ho Chi Minh City recently to celebrate Tet (Lunar New Year). Participants took part in traditional in Tet activities like making banh chung (square sticky rice cake), learning Vietnamese calligraphy, nhay sap (bamboo dancing), and listening to folk songs and chau van (spiritual singing). Tet dishes like banh chung, thit kho trung (caramelised braised pork and eggs, canh mang (bamboo shoot soup), and dua hanh (pickled welsh onion) were made on the occasion. In photo: Foreign participant enjoy the event as experiencing Vietnamese customs. (Photo: Vietnam+) 
The Tet holiday is the most important and most anticipated of the year in Vietnam. A number of meaningful traditional customs are practiced at this time, with collecting calligraphy being among the most beautiful. The tradition of collecting letters has become part of Vietnamese culture whenever Lunar New Year arrives. The calligraphic works, which can be romanised Vietnamese, Han Chinese or Nom (Vietnamese ideographic) scripts written by elderly scholars, expresses the Vietnamese people’s respect for knowledge. A word is a spiritual present from the calligrapher, often a Confucian scholar, and conveys New Year wishes to the recipient. The most preferred words symbolize blessing, happiness, longevity, peace, virtue, and prosperity. In photo: Participants experience Vietnam’s Tet custom of collecting calligraphic words. (Photo: Vietnam+) 
Participants took part in traditional Tet activities like making banh chung (square sticky rice cake), learning Vietnamese calligraphy, nhay sap (bamboo dancing), and listening to folk songs and chau van (spiritual singing). Their children got to play with traditional the Vietnamese toy, to he, which are small, colourful figurines of heroes, animals, flowers, and fairies made from glutinous rice powder. Tet dishes like banh chung, thit kho trung (caramelised braised pork and eggs, canh mang (bamboo shoot soup), and dua hanh (pickled welsh onion) were made on the occasion. In the photo: Miss Hung Kings Temple Giang My participates in the traditional bamboo dancing. (Photo: Vietnam+) 
Foreign diplomats based in HCM City and business executives gathered recently to celebrate Tet (Lunar New Year). The attendees included Vincent Floreani, the French consul general, Mary Tarnowka, the executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam and former consul general of the US and executives from the EU-Vietnam Business Network, the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam and the Business Executive Network Vietnam. In the photo: Mary Tarnowka, executive director of the American Chamber of Commerce in Vietnam and former consul general of the US in Ho Chi Minh City, experiences bamboo dancing when joining ‘Tet celebration’ event. (Photo: Vietnam+) 
‘Tet’ with traditional practices and interesting activities attracts huge attention of Foreign diplomats based in HCM City and business executives. They have gathered in an event called ‘Tet celebration’ in Ho Chi Minh City recently to celebrate Tet (Lunar New Year). Participants took part in traditional Tet activities like making banh chung (square sticky rice cake), learning Vietnamese calligraphy, nhay sap (bamboo dancing), and listening to folk songs and chau van (spiritual singing). Tet dishes like banh chung, thit kho trung (caramelised braised pork and eggs, canh mang (bamboo shoot soup), and dua hanh (pickled welsh onion) were made on the occasion. In the photo: Participants, organisers and singers in a group performance of Tet songs. (Photo: Vietnam+) 
Rich or poor, Vietnamese at home or abroad carefully cook traditional dishes to put on the home altar to worship their ancestors during Tet (Lunar New Year) festival. At Tet, each region has its own culinary specialties that reflect the culture of their people. Most Vietnamese people start preparations a month before the festival. Right before the New Year Eve, the meal will be officially offered to ancestors on the altar, as the oldest man of the family will burn the incense and say the prayers. In photo: A traditional Tet meal of the northern region (including ‘banh chung’, pickle, bamboo sprout soup, etc., is cooked by culinary artisans. (Photo: Vietnam+) VNA
