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The Vietnamese calendar (Vietnamese: âm lịch; chữ Hán: 陰曆) is a lunisolar calendar that is mostly based on the lunisolar Chinese calendar. 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 ...
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. 5. Lunar New Year. Largest and most important holiday of the year, occurring around late January to early February.
The name Tết is a shortening of Tết Nguyên Đán, literally written as tết (meaning festivals; only used in festival names) and nguyên đán which means the first day of the year. Both words come from Sino-Vietnamese respectively, 節 (SV: tiết) and 元旦. The word for festival is usually lễ hội, a Sino-Vietnamese word, 禮會.
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The traditional Chinese calendar (traditional Chinese: 農曆; simplified Chinese: 农历; lit. 'agricultural calendar'; informally traditional Chinese: 陰曆; simplified Chinese: 阴历; lit. ' lunar calendar ') is a lunisolar calendar, combining the solar, lunar, and other cycles for various social and agricultural purposes.
A lunisolar calendar is a calendar in many cultures, incorporating lunar calendars and solar calendars. The date of lunisolar calendars therefore indicates both the Moon phase and the time of the solar year, that is the position of the Sun in the Earth's sky. If the sidereal year (such as in a sidereal solar calendar) is used instead of the ...
Vietnamese (tiếng Việt) is a Vietic language in the Austroasiatic language family, spoken primarily in Vietnam where it is the national and official language.Vietnamese is spoken natively by around 85 million people, [1] several times as many as the rest of the Austroasiatic family combined. [5]
A lunar calendar is a calendar based on the monthly cycles of the Moon 's phases (synodic months, lunations), in contrast to solar calendars, whose annual cycles are based on the solar year. The most widely observed purely lunar calendar is the Islamic calendar. [a] A purely lunar calendar is distinguished from a lunisolar calendar, whose lunar ...