Tet is the festival which epitomizes the identity of Vietnamese culture. Although the Lunar New Year is observed in all of East Asia influenced by Chinese civilization, each country celebrates it in a way peculiar to that country by making it conform to its psyche and historico-geographical conditions.
Many rites, festivities and practices of Vietnamese TET are quite distant variants of the Chinese model, and are even original creations which hark back to myths and legends of the pre-Chinese period which prevailed in an authentically Viet culture of the Bronze Age (first millenium B.C.)
Year of the… ll Gregorian Calendar
Cat: Feb 03, 2011
Dragon: Jan 23, 2012
Snake: Feb 10, 2013
Horse: Jan 31, 2014
Goat: Feb 19, 2015
Monkey: Feb 08, 2016
Rooster: Jan 28, 2017
Dog: Feb 16, 2018
Pig: Feb 05, 2019
Rat: Jan 25, 2020