The Vietnamese Intellectual Society (VIS) in the UK and Ireland on January 14 held an annual meeting to review its performance last year and a traditional Lunar New Year celebration for Vietnamese expatriates.
Coca Cola Beverages Vietnam Ltd welcomed 3,000 people in Ho Chi Minh City on January 8 to set a record for the world’s most crowded Lunar New Year dining table.
The Vietnamese Embassy in Singapore in collaboration with the Vietnamese Students’ Association in Singapore held a Chung cake making contest for local Vietnamese people on January 15-16 to celebrate the 2022 lunar New Year festival (Tet).
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VOV.VN - Tet, the lunar New Year festival, is the most important festival in Vietnam.
Typical offerings to ancestors on New Year’s Eve. (Photo: thethaovanhoa.vn)
On this occasion, people practice traditional customs to wish for a new lunar year full of peace, luck, wealth, and prosperity. No matter where they reside, family members do their best to reunite for the holiday and visit their relatives and friends.
A couple of weeks before Tet, Vietnamese people visit their ancestors’ tombs and clean gravesites. They light incense at the graves, sum up the family’s major events during the year for their ancestors and invite the deceased to “go home” to enjoy Tet with the living.