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What Do Vietnamese People Do Before Celebrating Tet Holiday?
What Do Vietnamese People Do Before Celebrating Tet Holiday?
Presented by:
Le Thi Thanh Mai
Summary
Some of special customs Vietnamese do
before celebrating Tet holiday:
Cleaning and decorating the house
Farewell ceremony for Kitchen Gods
Preparing the plate of 5 fruits in Family
1. Cleaning and Decorating the house
First steps to welcome
Tet holiday
Often cleaned and
decorated before New
Years Eve
Sweeping away the bad
fortunes in the old year
Decorating inside and outside their house
with festive items:
Celebrating in
23th Dec
based on
Lunar
calendar
Reporting to Jade Emperor of the family
throughout the year
Vehicle by Carp Fish
3. Preparing the 5 fruits tray
Sitting on ancestors altar in every
Vietnamese home during Tet holiday
Standing for good crops and
prosperity
How difference of meaning in the
names of these fruits in Vietnam