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In the weeks leading up to Tet, celebratory songs are played throughout Vietnam. One song, Ngày Tết Quê Em (Tet in My Homeland) was released by Linh Trang and Xuan Mai in 2006. It was on the album Xuân Mai và Thiếu Nhi Cali 2 Hội chợ Cali. The song can be heard playing in many public places across the country. [31]
Ochna integerrima, [1] popularly called yellow Mai flower (Vietnamese: mai vàng, hoa mai, hoàng mai in southern Vietnam, although in the north, mai usually refers to Prunus mume), is a plant species in the genus Ochna (/ ˈ ɒ k n ə /) and family Ochnaceae. In the wild, it is a small tree or shrub species (2-7 m tall).
Tết Trung Thu (chữ Hán: 節中秋) is a traditional Vietnamese festival held from the night of the 14th to the end of the 15th of the 8th lunar month (Rằm tháng Tám, chữ Nôm: 𠄻躺渗). Despite its Chinese origin, the festival has recently evolved into a children's festival ( Tết Thiếu Nhi ), [ 2 ] also known as Tết Trông ...
Considered an indispensable dish of Tết, bánh chưng is placed on the family altars to honor the family ancestors and pray to them for support in the new year. [5] Wrapped in a green square package, bánh chưng symbolizes the earth , [ 6 ] the various ingredients of bánh chưng , which come from all the products of nature, also emphasize ...
Tết Đoan Ngũ, Tết Trùng Nhĩ or Tết Nửa Năm (Nửa Năm: a half of a year) is a festival celebrated at noon on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. [1] This day is the day around the time when the tail of the Great Bear points directly to the south, that is, around the time of the summer solstice.
On Tết and other occasions, Vietnamese men may wear an áo gấm (brocade robe), a version of the áo dài made of very thick fabric and with sewed symbols. The áo dài dress has traditionally been marketed with a feminine appeal, with "Miss Ao Dai" pageants being popular in Vietnam and with overseas Vietnamese . [ 11 ]
He was a shy boy, preferring to read rather than socialise. Although Orlando, Florida, did not have a large Vietnamese community, the Tết and Tết Trung Thu festivals allowed him to compete in singing competitions. At the 1994 Tết Trung Thu, he won the competition, and completed a hat-trick of victories in the following years.
The quan họ style originated in what is now Bắc Ninh Province and was first recorded in the 13th century [citation needed], and has traditionally been associated with the spring festivals that follow the celebration of Tết Nguyên Đán (the Vietnamese New Year). Historically, the singing began on the evening before the festival, but ...