Does Vietnam celebrate the Spring Festival? What are the origins and customs of the Spring Festival in Vietnam?

Viet Nam is a country with well-preserved China culture. Besides Vietnamese Chinese, most Vietnamese locals also celebrate the Spring Festival, because the Spring Festival in Vietnam is not only a festival in China, but also a traditional festival in Vietnam. Then, the question is, what is the origin of the Vietnamese Spring Festival, and what customs are different from those in China? 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 nationwide. The Spring Festival is the largest and most lively traditional festival among Vietnamese people. Vietnamese regard the Spring Festival 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 jiaozi, Spring Festival couplets and firecrackers have always been indispensable for the Vietnamese Spring Festival. The Spring Festival in Vietnam begins with the Kitchen God Festival on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, and the atmosphere of the Spring Festival runs through the first month. According to Vietnamese folk sayings, the first month is the month of "eating, drinking and having fun". According to Vietnamese folklore, on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, all the gods on the earth will return to heaven to report the situation for one year. Kitchen God is the god in charge of a family life, and he will also report the situation to the heaven for one year. With the kitchen god gone, there is no god to look after at home. At this time, you can sweep the yard and rebuild some places in your home that you dare not move to prepare for the New Year. This day is also called going in and out. This is obviously the same as the folk legend about the kitchen god in China. In order to send the kitchen god on the road and let the kitchen god hold his hand high, people have to release the kitchen god's mount-carp. During the Spring Festival, the most ethnic characteristics of Vietnamese are rice cakes and glutinous rice cakes. Vietnamese New Year's Zongzi is the same as China's, but it is 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.