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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]
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.
During the Vietnam War, when the province was the South's border with North Vietnam, it suffered a major attack in the January 1968 Tet Offensive and it was the only South Vietnamese provincial capital to be captured by the North Vietnamese forces in the 1972 Easter Offensive before being recaptured in September 1972.
North Vietnam switched from UTC+8 to UTC+7 on 8 August 1967, with southern Vietnam doing likewise in 1975 at the end of the Vietnam War. As a result of the shift, North and South Vietnam celebrated Tết 1968 on different days. [5] This effect would see the solstice falling on 21 December in Hanoi, while it was 22 December for Beijing.
These new holidays were to include the International Labour Day on 1 May, the anniversary of the August Revolution on 19 August, Viet Nam's National Day on 2 September, and Ho Chi Minh's birthday on 19 May. [4] The lunar new year, Tết Nguyên Đán and the mid-autumn moon, Tết Trung Thu, continued to be observed as traditionally.
Phase Two of the Tet Offensive of 1968 (also known as the May Offensive, Little Tet, and Mini-Tet) was launched by the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN) and Viet Cong (VC) against targets throughout South Vietnam, including Saigon from 29 April to 30 May 1968. The May Offensive was considered much bloodier than the initial phase of the Tet Offensive.
Reunification Day (Vietnamese: Ngày Thống nhất), also known as Victory Day (Ngày Chiến thắng), Liberation Day (Ngày Giải phóng or Ngày Giải phóng miền Nam), or by its official name, Day of the Liberation of the South and National Reunification (Ngày giải phóng miền Nam, thống nhất đất nước) [2] is a public holiday in Vietnam that marks the event when the ...
Gặp nhau cuối năm (The Year-End Reunion) is a Vietnamese annual satirical comedy that is broadcast across all channels of the Vietnamese national broadcaster Vietnam Television (VTV) on Tết Nguyên Đán, and has been produced by the Vietnam Television Film Center (VFC) since 2003. Known for its comedic take on the socio-political and ...