Chinese New Year In Vietnam
Dates for vietnamese new year vietnam 2020 2021 and other years.
Chinese new year in vietnam. After the vietnamese people were freed from the chinese they made their own lunar solar calendar and the first lunar is celebrated as tet ngyuen dan or tet and brings the arrival of spring for them. Tet nguyen dan or tet for short is considered the biggest and most popular festival of the year in vietnam. Tet nguyen dan vietnamese new year adheres to the same lunar calendar that governs chinese new year.
Tết tet or təːt vietnamese new year vietnamese lunar new year or tet holiday is the most important celebration in vietnamese culture. The holiday is also widely celebrated in countries like hong kong singapore south korea taiwan and vietnam by exchanging gifts or money for good fortune partying in the streets and setting off. Considered the first day of spring and most important of national holidays in vietnam tet is the annual vietnamese new year celebration coinciding with the lunar new year celebrated throughout the world in january or february.
The word is a shortened form of tết nguyên đán 節元旦 which is sino vietnamese for feast of the first. Celebrated on the first day of the first month in lunar calendar tet s celebration is the longest holiday which may last up to seven to nine days. This day celebrates.
Vietnamese new year in 2019 will last from 4 10 feb 2019. During vietnamese new year most of the restaurants and other places are closed because the locals celebrate it for 3 days. Tet nguyen dan translates literally to the first morning of the first day of the new year.
In fact many of the celebratory traditions lion dances feasts and fireworks namely are the same. Chinese new year korean new year japanese new year mongolian new year tibetan new year.