Tet, also known as Lunar new year festival, is the biggest traditional festival in Viet Nam. Tet is usually from the end of January to early February. Before Tet, Vietnamese prepare many things for the three main days. They clean their house and decorate with flowers such as kumquat tree or peach blossom. A huge amount of food will be bought before Tet for making traditional dishes. Banh Chung, Banh Tet, Gio cha, Xoi and Mut, …and candies are the foods that must have on Tet holidays. During Tet, people visit their relatives’ homes and give wishes. However, the Vietnamese believe that the first visitor a family receives in the year determines their fortune for the entire year, people never enter any house on the first day without being invited first. Another custom is giving lucky money, which is put into a red envelope as a symbol of luck and wish for a new age. Traditionally, elders will give lucky money to children and the oldest people in the family. However, nowadays, people can give it to anyone including friends, parents, neighbors,… Besides, Vietnamese usually go to pagodas or temples to pray for health, wealth, success,… To Vietnamese, Tet is the happiest time of all year around, members in a family can gather together, which is a meaningful messages of Lunar New year festival. All in all, Tet is all about back to origins, be good to others, enjoy the precious moment, and wish for the best to come.

Not different from Vietnam and other Asian countries, In China, people also celebrate the traditional ethnic New Year, also known as the Chinese New Year, the Chinese Spring Festival. This is one of the most important traditional festivals in China of the year.

The festival atmosphere took place quite early, every year starting on December 8 of the lunar calendar, Chinese people everywhere come together to "home" to celebrate Tet to reunite families, gather around the house and the festival. lasted until January 15 of the new year.
New year comes in the spring, so the house is cleaned to welcome the new year, decorating the house with couplets, hanging paper lanterns, pasting paper on the doorways ... Especially, with Chinese culture red and yellow are the two colors that carry the idea of ​​luck and happiness. In addition, the culture of making steamed dumplings on New Year's Eve is also carried out in the Spring Festival with a long-standing tradition. On New Year's Eve, fireworks burst into the sky to celebrate the new year, creating a fun, jubilant atmosphere.

Like children in Vietnam, in China Tet comes, people exchange red lucky red envelopes and other interesting things happen on the festival such as going to the temple at the beginning of the year to pray for good luck, to wish the New Year. friends and relatives ...