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Tradition has it that during the first days of the Lunar New Year, Vietnamese families go to pagodas to pray for a year of good luck, health, happiness, and prosperity.

With cultural and historical values, the Temple of Literature has always been considered a spiritual fulcrum for students in exams.

The Ap Ho Chieng Festival, or New Year Shampoo Festival, is held by the White Thai ethnic minority on lunar December 30 in Khong Lao commune in Phong Tho district, the northern province of Lai Chau. The festival plays an important role in the local spiritual and cultural life.

For many years already, the Book Street Festival has become a “Tet specialty” of people in Ho Chi Minh City as spring arrives. Buying and reading books at the beginning of the year is not only a great pleasure but has also become a cultural activity, showing respect for knowledge and a culture of reading as modern technology takes hold.

Flowers and ornamental trees typical in the traditional Lunar New Year not only make the home more beautiful but also bring luck, peace, and fortune to the family.

Visiting pagodas during the Lunar New Year festival is not merely an activity associated with Buddhism but it has become an age-old cultural tradition, and an indispensable part in Vietnamese people’s spiritual life

Due to the complicated situation of the Covid-19 epidemic, from May 3rd, Van Mieu - Quoc Tu Giam has been temporarily closed. So parents and students coming here can oly bow from the gate, display offerings and burn incense outside.

Vietnamese families often visit their ancestors’ tombs and clean gravesites whenever the Lunar New Year (Tet) comes, normally from the 23rd of the last month of the lunar year to New Year’s Eve.

People in Hanoi release carps to give Ong Cong – Ong Tao (Land Genie and the Kitchen Gods) a ride to Heaven to deliver an annual report on the household’s activities to the God of Heaven today. This is one of the most sacred and meaningful annual events that officially starts the traditional Tet (Lunar New Year).

Nine tonnes of Vietnamese “U Hong” lychee, known for its distinctive yellowish skin and fresh sweetness, are en route to Australia and will hit shelves in mid-June.

This year’s God of Wealth Day (February 3) saw fewer gold buyers than previous years due to fears of new coronavirus (nCoV).

At the mid-point between the old and new year, many people came to Ha pagoda in Hanoi to pray for good luck. This is also a beauty from many generations of Vietnamese people.

People across Laos are celebrating their traditional New Year festival (Bunpimay) with a wide range of activities from April 14.

On the second day of the second lunar month, people flock to Phu Luu commune of Ham Yen district, in the northern mountainous province of Tuyen Quang for a unique market which is only held once a year

Viềng market, a spring festival deeply imbued with folk beliefs and culture of northern delta inhabitants, opens annually at midnight of the 7th till dawn of the 8th of the first lunar month

From the 7th day of the first lunar month, which falls on Feb. 11 this year, people flocked to Nam Dinh province for a unique market festival to sell bad luck and to buy good luck for the year ahead.

From the afternoon of the 7th day of the first lunar month, which falls on February 11 this year, people flock to the northern province of Nam Dinh for a unique market which is held only once a year to sell - guess what - bad luck as well as to buy good luck for the year to come.

Let’s see some stunning photos of peach blossoms which signal the strong vitality of spring.

As a large population of Vietnam still rely on agriculture for a living, pig has been a close animal to the Vietnamese people through generations.

More than 500 Lao students, who are studying in Vietnam’s central province of Thua Thien – Hue, were brought together on April 8 to celebrate Laos’ traditional New Year festival of Bunpimay.