When does Vietnam celebrate the New Year?

In Vietnam, the twelfth lunar month and the first day of the first month celebrate the New Year.

Vietnam is one of the few countries in the world that use the lunar calendar, and it is also one of the few countries that celebrate the Spring Festival. The Spring Festival is the largest and most lively traditional festival among Vietnamese people, and the Vietnamese regard it as a day to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. Generally, preparations for the Spring Festival begin in the middle of February of the 65438+ lunar calendar. Flowers, Chinese New Year's dumplings, Spring Festival couplets and firecrackers have always been indispensable for the Vietnamese Spring Festival.

Vietnamese people celebrate the Spring Festival with the most national characteristics: rice cakes and glutinous rice cakes. The practice of chanting Buddhism in Vietnam is the same as that in China. But it's square and much bigger. Generally, it is 200 grams of glutinous rice, with 200 grams of pork and 150 grams of mung bean paste in the middle and banana leaves outside. Legend has it that Nianzong symbolizes the earth, green represents vitality, and pork and mung bean paste wrapped in the middle represent birds, animals and plants.

Vietnamese Spring Festival custom

According to Vietnamese custom, it is the Spring Festival from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, and the kitchen god is sent to heaven. The atmosphere of the Lunar New Year lasted for the whole first month. According to Vietnamese folks, the first month is the month of "eating, drinking and having fun". In the homes of Vietnamese people, three kinds of decorations are essential during the Spring Festival, namely peach blossom, kumquat bonsai and "five-fruit pot". All three things were bought at the flower market. Near the Spring Festival, flowers are sold all over the street, which has been handed down all the year round and formed a flower market.

Many young people like to visit the flower market. In Vietnamese eyes, peach blossom is a symbol of good luck, and kumquat means good luck. In the south of central Vietnam, due to climatic reasons, there are no peach blossoms, so Huang Meihua is generally used instead. As decoration, not only at home, but also in shops and even in various units. At the same time, all units will hang banners at the door to welcome the New Year, even temples and other places are no exception, because temples are the main places for Vietnamese New Year activities.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Vietnam