Lunar New Year is a holiday for families to gather together, after a year of work. However, not only Vietnam, there are many countries around the world that also celebrate Lunar New Year.
3. Taiwanese people consider this the biggest holiday of the year, the day everyone in the family gathers around the dinner table, sharing with each other the joys, sorrows, successes and failures of the past year.
4. Tet according to the lunar calendar of Cambodia, a major festival celebrating the new year according to the traditional calendar of the Khmer people, also known as the Chol Chnam Thamy festival
5. In the golden pagoda country of Thailand, people celebrate Lunar New Year for 3 days like Vietnam. The biggest festival of this year is named Songkran and takes place from April 13 to April 15.
6. Tet in Singapore takes place at the same time as Vietnam (In photo: Singapore uses 15,000 drones to create a giant dragon at Marina Bay)
7. Tsagaan Sar Day or White Month Tet are the names Mongolians call Vietnam’s Lunar New Year. Everyone in the family gathers together and enjoys a cozy family meal
8-9. South Korea and North Korea celebrate Lunar New Year on the first day
10. The biggest Lunar New Year day of the year in India is the Holi festival, an important festival and a famous spring festival of the Indian people
11. It can be said that Bhutan’s rest and Tet schedule is very similar to Vietnam’s. This is the Losar New Year of the Bhutanese people