Shopping for Tet: A special tradition of Vietnamese

A Vietnamese saying goes: “Work for a whole year just to serve 3 days of Tet holiday”. That shows how important is the Lunar New Year to Vietnamese people.

A Vietnamese saying goes: “Work for a whole year just to serve 3 days of Tet holiday”. That shows how important is the Lunar New Year to Vietnamese people.

In Vietnam, the Tet Holiday customs are slightly different in each region. But basically, they all have characteristics like praying, eating year-end meals, hanging out during Tet.

To celebrate Tet Holiday, many temporary markets have appeared in local communities providing specialties of Tet such as peach blossom, apricot flower, and other things.

Peach blossom, apricot blossom, and kumquat trees are indispensable during Tet holidays as long-standing traditional beauty in Vietnamese New Year culture./.

VNA

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