The Vietnamese New Year - Tet Nguyen Dan

at one time upon a time, there was an story that said thousands of years ago in a splendid village of Vietnam, there was a nut who came one legislates eve and undo the village. The following year, the demon returned and unmake the village again. Before it could happened a third time, the villagers give-up the ghosted out a plan to scare the monster away. Throughout the whole village, rubor banners were hung; the color red had retentive been believed to protect against evil. Firecrackers, drums and gongs were used to lionise loud noises to scare the monster away. The plan worked and the celebration lasted some(prenominal) days during which people visited with each other, exchanged gifts, danced, and ate peppery food (Lisa Chiu 1).There are unendingly significant holidays to every country. pass is defined as a day free from work that people may spend time to relax and specially a day of halt all of the general product line activities to honor and dedicate a particu lar event. In religious term, it is a holy day. For example, American people celebrate holidays much(prenominal) as, Thanksgiving and Christmas, some Hispanics celebrate Cinco de Mayo, and for Vietnamese people, there is an all important(predicate) holiday which is the Vietnamese stark naked twelvemonth. Tet is known as the Vietnameses untested division ,it is time to prepare for the forthcoming year, this is also the time to impute and buildup a better relationship, find out and be filial to the ancestors, set out luck and be consider to each others .\nThe New Year begins on the first iniquity of the first moon. This is sometime among January 21 and February 19 on the solar calendar. The day of the New Year varied depends on the phases of the moon. Traditionally, Tet takes weeks of preparation. All homes must be cleaned to get rid of foul fortune associated with the old year. fit to the superstition of the great heart of people who live in Vietnam, Khanh Loan, the au thor of the article Tet Nguyen Dan explains that, It is considere...