Tết

Tết, short for Tết Nguyên Đán, is the most important celebration in Vietnamese culture. Tết celebrates the arrival of spring based on the Vietnamese calendar and usually falls on... 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:  The first day of the Lunar 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, 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:  Chinese New Year, Japanese New Year, Korean New Year, Mongolian New Year, Tibetan New Year, Taiwanese New Year
• Data source:  DuckDuckGo