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New Year's Day: Tết dương lịch: 1: International public holiday From the 2nd last day of the last lunar month to 5th day of the first lunar month: Vietnamese New Year (Tet) Tết Nguyên Đán: 7 (9 if 1st day of 1st lunar month falls on Mon-Wed) Lunar New Year Largest and most important holiday of the year, occurring around late January ...
Tết (Vietnamese:, chữ Hán: 節), short for Tết Nguyên Đán (chữ Hán: 節元旦 lit. ' Festival of the first day '), is the most important celebration in Vietnamese culture. Tết celebrates the arrival of spring based on the Vietnamese calendar and usually has the date in January or February in the Gregorian calendar. [2]
Considered an indispensable dish of Tết, bánh chưng is placed on the family altars to honor the family ancestors and pray to them for support in the new year. [5] Wrapped in a green square package, bánh chưng symbolizes the earth , [ 6 ] the various ingredients of bánh chưng , which come from all the products of nature, also emphasize ...
Tết Đoan Ngũ, Tết Trùng Nhĩ or Tết Nửa Năm (Nửa Năm: a half of a year) is a festival celebrated at noon on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. [1] This day is the day around the time when the tail of the Great Bear points directly to the south, that is, around the time of the summer solstice.
As Vietnam's official calendar has been the Gregorian calendar since 1954, [1] the Vietnamese calendar is used mainly to observe lunisolar holidays and commemorations, such as Tết Nguyên Đán and Tết Trung Thu.
Hùng Vương altar on Giỗ Tổ Hùng Vương at a school. The Hùng Kings' Temple Festival (Vietnamese: Giỗ Tổ Hùng Vương or Lễ hội đền Hùng) is a Vietnamese festival held annually from the 1th to the 10th day of the third lunar month in honour of the Hùng Vương or Hùng Kings.
Lâm Nhật Tiến (born 3 September 1971) is a Vietnamese-American singer who was affiliated with the music label, Asia Entertainment Inc. from 1994 to 2016. [1] He gained prominence through numerous appearances in Asia Entertainment's music videos, establishing himself as one of Vietnam's leading male pop stars.
The Tet Offensive [a] was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War.The Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) launched a surprise attack on 30 January 1968 against the forces of the South Vietnamese Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN), the United States Armed Forces and their allies.