Published:  08:49 Friday - July 22, 2016

Lunar New Year in Vietnam is an interesting occasion for foreigners to understand more about local culture: the streets are full of people in the last day and then suddenly empty in the next morning, park and public place are flooded with family while shops often close for one week. And what's else one can expect to see?

Lunar New Year Festival often falls between late January and early February; it is among the most important holidays in Vietnam. Officially, the festival includes the 1st, 2nd and 3rd day in Lunar Calendar; however, Vietnamese people often spend about nearly a month to celebrate this special event.

Hanoi in the year 90s 

Now Hanoi Lunar New Year is filled with the pink color of flowers

Colorful street vendors

A corner of Hanoi Old Square before Tet

Beautiful girl is choosing flower to decorate home

Dinner before New Year Eve - one of the most important meal for family reunion. In Vietnam, it is uncommon that a family member is absent in this case

Massive crowd will gather to see firework show at the mid night in the New Year Eve

Burn the paper stuff for ancestors

The first day of Lunar New Year, relation will visit others

People often go out happily with new clothes to wish for a new lucky year

Like other Asian countries, Vietnamese believe that the color of red and yellow will bring good fortune, which may explain why these colors can be seen everywhere in Tet. People consider what they do on the dawn of Tet will determine their fate for the whole year, hence people always smile and behave as nice as they can in the hope for a better year. Besides, children receive lucky money kept in red envelope. The tradition of Tet seems have not changed over decades in Vietnam.