Lunar New Year Festival often falls between late January and early February and it is among the most important holidays in Viet Nam.  Officially, the festival includes the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd day in lunar calendar.  However, Vietnamese people often spend about nearly a month to celebrate this special event.

Traditionally, the purpose of the Tet holiday is that Vietnamese would like to thank Gods for the arrival of spring with a variety of blooming trees and flowers after a cold and harsh winter.  Also, this is the privileged occasion for family’s members to reunite and celebrate a new year which has come together, and say farewell to the previous one.  All the best things are prepared and consumed during this holiday as people want to ensure that they will have a new year full of prosperity.

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There is a saying in Viet Nam, “Father’s Tet is on the First Day of New Year, Mother’s Tet is on the Second, and Teacher’s is on the Third”.  The best illustration of the quotation is that, on the first day Vietnamese visit their parents on the husband’s side, on the second day they turn to parents on the wife’s side, and lastly they spend their third day of Tet visiting their teachers.  All in all, Tet is all about back to origins, wishing for the best, and joining in colorful parties.

(Source: http://www.holidaysvietnam.com)