Vietnamese Traditional Holiday Tet

Tet, Vietnamse New Year New Year is always an important holiday of each country in a year. As the New Year time, an atmosphere of countries are happy and it looks colorful because people try to clean up and decorate everything such as street, house, and everything they have. However, the new year ‘s day of each country are difference. As we know that America and Europe have one New Year day is the first day of year, but Tet is the abbreviation of Tet Nguyen Dan which means the first morning of the first day of the new period. Tet marks the beginning of a new year on the lunar calendar, and the beginning of spring. So Viet Nam has same New Year time with China. The image of Tet always exists in my mind. Now I am living in America, but I cannot forget Tet. Tet is an important holiday for every family in Vietnam, thus I will introduce you about the first three days of my family in Vietnamese New Year. Tet is a huge celebration lasting three days. The first day is a special day of my family during that time. All the member family will come to my grandfather’s house (my father’s side) to meet each other and receive lucky money. I am very excited in this day because I will receive a lot of lucky money. An adult person will put money into a red envelope with a phrase about New Year, then they will give it to a kid. So I just say some good thing for all person who older than me, they will give me a red envelope. However, sometimes my family makes a joke on me by giving me an empty envelope. Then we will fire a firework. The sound of the firework is very loud, but it makes people happy. “Pop… pop…pop..” is a sound of every house in Viet Nam during first day of the year. They believe that it will give a family a wonderful year. The picture of the first day always in my mind, it is very happy and great.. On second day of Tet, Iwill go to a temple with my family. My family usually comes to visit at least five temples in that day. The reason that we are going to temple