The following is the Spring Festival in Vietnam:
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. 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. In the past, flowers, New Year's jiaozi, Spring Festival couplets and firecrackers were probably the most essential things for the Vietnamese Spring Festival.
Flower market is one of the important activities of Vietnamese Spring Festival. For example, in Hanoi, the flower market began to be lively about 10 days before the Spring Festival. Vietnamese favorite annual flowers are gladiolus, dahlia, kumquat and peach blossom. In addition to flowers and bonsai, the flower market also sells all kinds of gas.
Balls, colored lights, toys, New Year pictures, Spring Festival couplets, calendars, etc. Decorate the connected streets with colorful and beaming faces.
Glutinous rice, pork and mung bean paste make zongzi.
Vietnamese also have the habit of posting Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival. In the past, Spring Festival couplets were written in Chinese characters, but now most Spring Festival couplets are written in pinyin, and each pinyin word is a square with its own style.
In addition, Vietnamese people also like to paste the words "Fu" and "Xi" and the images of Fu, Lu and the birthday girl at home, as well as various traditional New Year pictures to express their good wishes and yearning for the New Year.
The local Chinese will have food such as rice cakes during the Spring Festival, and Vietnamese are no exception. Among them, the rice cakes and glutinous rice cakes have the most ethnic characteristics.
The making method of zongzi is the same as that we eat, but Vietnamese zongzi 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 represent birds and animals.
Vietnamese used to set off firecrackers during the Spring Festival, but since 1995, the Vietnamese government has banned people from setting off fireworks during the Spring Festival.
China people have the custom of keeping watch on New Year's Eve, and so do Vietnamese people. On New Year's Eve, people put on holiday costumes and flocked to the streets. Young women also put on Vietnamese cheongsam. At 0: 00, when the national leader's Spring Festival speech was broadcast on the radio, the festive atmosphere reached its climax. Then people also picked a branch to go home. This custom is called "picking green". In Vietnamese, "green" and "road" are homonyms. "Picking green" means "lucky picking", which means bringing good luck home.
The first guest in the Spring Festival will bring good luck.
Vietnamese people take a few days off as usual during the Spring Festival, and also have the custom of visiting relatives and friends. The first visitor to pay New Year's greetings is especially valued. It is said that he will bring good luck to his master. Vietnamese people call it "rushing home" or "rushing to the ground", meaning close to "rushing to happiness". Therefore, Vietnamese usually invite their closest and most respected friends as the first guests of the Spring Festival.
In addition to mutual visits between relatives and friends, during the Spring Festival, streets, parks and public places of entertainment throughout Vietnam held various entertainment activities for several days, performing traditional Vietnamese dramas, songs and dances, acrobatics, martial arts, wrestling and lion dancing, as well as folk activities such as swinging, playing chess, fighting cocks and shooting birds. The whole of Vietnam was immersed in the festive atmosphere.