Nguyen Hue flower street celebrates the Year of the Pig (Photo: sggpnews.org.vn) Hanoi (VNA) – Various holiday activitieshave been scheduled to celebrate the lunar New Year (Tet) in Ho Chi Minh City.
The 2019 Lunar New Year holiday will fall onFebruary 4-8, meaning it will span nine days including the two weekends.
On February 1, leaders of the HCM City PartyCommittee, People’s Council, People’s Committee and Fatherland Front will laywreaths and offer incense to pay respect to late Presidents Ho Chi Minh and TonDuc Thang at the Ho Chi Minh Museum, Ton Duc Thang Museum and Ho Chi Minhmonument park.
On February 5 (the first day of the year in thelunar calendar), the southern economic hub will treat locals and visitors tofirework performances at five venues – the Dam Sen cultural park in District 11,the history-culture park in District 9, Can Gio district, Cu Chi tunnel in CuChi district and Hiep Phuoc industrial park in Nha Be district.
In District 1, a Tet exhibition will run onDong Khoi street, while a flower festival is scheduled for Tao Dan park, bothfrom January 30 to February 10. Nguyen Hue flower street and Mac Thi Buoi –Nguyen Hue – Ngo Duc Ke book street will open between February 2 and 8,featuring new activities and nearly 100,000 books.
The history-culture park and 24 localdistricts will hold a Banh Tet (round glutinous rice cake) festival on January30 and 31. Banh Tet is a traditional cake enjoyed by southern Vietnamese peopleon the occasion of the lunar New Year, a variant of the north’s Banh Chung(square glutinous rice cake).-VNA
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