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TET Vietnamese New Year Advanced 2023-2024

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  • What is the national favourite comedy show broadcast during the night before the New Year's Eve?
    Gặp nhau cuối năm (Year-end Gathering) or TAO QUAN / THE KITCHEN GOD
  • What's this?
    It's a five fruit tray.
  • What kind of transportation do the 3 Kitchen Gods use?
    3 Koi fish
  • What are these?
    These are scrolls.
  • What's this?
    It's a festival.
  • What is the most special food for Tet?
    The sticky rice cake/chung cake (Bánh Chưng)
  • What is the worship on the 23rd day of the twelfth month ?
    The worship for  the 3 Kitchen Gods (Ông Táo)
  • Besides decorating the houses and preparing food and new clothes, what else do people do before Tet?
    Visit the graves of their ancestors
  • Where is the spiritual place that families often go to during Tet?
    Pagodas or Temples
  • What do you receive on the first day of the New Year?
    Lucky money (Lì xì)
  • What are the 2 popular flowers for Tet?
    Apricot blossoms and peach blossoms.
  • List 1 common wish for Tết
    Wish you live a long life, peace, prosperity and everything to go the way you expect.  Good health, money flow in like water happiness and prosperity.
  • How do you say Lunar New Year in Vietnamese?
    Tết
  • What are the three periods of Tet?
    Tất Niên (Before New Year’s Eve), Giao Thừa (New Year’s Eve), and Tân Niên (the New Year)
  • What are these?
    These are fireworks.
  • What's this?
    It's a banquet.
  • What do some big cities around the country do before New Year's Eve?
    Shoot fireworks
  • What's this?
    It's a tet cake.
  • What are these?
    These are apricot blossoms.
  • Name some of the 12 zodiac animals that stands for the 12 years
    Rat, buffalo, tiger, cat, dragon, snake, horse, goat, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. Tý, Sửu, Dần, Mão, Thìn, Tỵ, Ngọ, Mùi, Tân, Dậu, Tuất, Hợi
  • What's this?
    It's a calligraphy.
  • What are these?
    These are peach blossoms.
  • What is a traditional game during Tet?
    bầu cua cá cọp (Squash Crab Fish Tiger), cờ tướng(Chinese chess) , chọi trâu (buffalo fighting), and đá gà (chicken fighting)
  • When does Tết take place?
    Tết takes place from the first day of the first month of the Lunar calendar (around late January or early February) until at least the third day.
  • What's this?
    It's a giay cake.
  • What's this?
    It's a family reunion.
  • What's this?
    It's the lion dance.
  • What's this?
    It's the dragon dance.
  • What colours are the symbol of Tet?
    red and yellow (gold)
  • How many kinds of fruits on the tray of fruits on the altar?
    5 (five fruit tray)
  • What do you call the snack that people serve guests during Tet holidays?
    Candied fruit (Mứt)