Tết

Tết, short for Tết Nguyên Đán, is the most important celebration in Vietnamese culture. Tết celebrates the arrival of spring, which is on the first day of the first... Wikipedia

• Official name:  Tết Nguyên Đán
• Also called:  Tết, Lunar New Year (as a collective term including other Asian Lunar New Year festivals, used outside of Asia)
• Observed by:  Vietnamese
• Type:  Religious, cultural, and national
• Significance:  First day of the new year
• Celebrations:  fireworks, family gatherings, family meals, visiting friends' homes on the first day of the new year (xông đất), visiting friends and relatives, ancestor veneration, making a creative work for luck (khai bút), giving red envelopes to children and elderly, and opening a shop
• Date:  First day of the first Vietnamese lunisolar month
• date:  First day of the first Vietnamese lunisolar month
• Frequency:  Annual
• Related to:  Lunar New Year, Chinese New Year, Japanese New Year, Korean New Year, Tsagaan Sar, Losar, Taiwanese New Year
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo