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1. Travel Tip:
Cau Doi - parallels
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Composing, challenging and displaying parallels represent an elegant cultural activity of vietnamese people. Parallels are written on red paper and hung on both sides of a gate, pillars or an... Tags for this Chapter: parallels caudoi tet |
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2. Travel Tip:
Banh Chung - rice cake
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This is always my favourite cake for the Tet holidays because my mom can cook the best of rice cakes ever. It is pretty much difficult to bake this cake though. It takes around 12 hours to cook... Tags for this Chapter: ricecake tet |
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3. Travel Tip:
Mam Ngu Qua - The five-fruit tray
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The “five-fruit tray” on the ancestral altar during the Tet holiday symbolizes the admiration and gratitude of the vietnamese people to Heaven and Earth and their ancestors, and also... Tags for this Chapter: tet fruit |
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4. Travel Tip:
Hoa Mai
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While peach blossoms are preferred in North, Hoa Mai is more commonly used during Tet in the South. This is a small yellow flowering plant, which never blossoms on itself. Vietnamese people always... Tags for this Chapter: hoamai tet |
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5. Travel Tip:
Cay Neu
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Cay Neu is a bamboo pole striped of its leaves except for a tuft on top. People always use red paper to decorate this tree, that is planted outside of their houses during the Tet Holidays. Cay Neu... Tags for this Chapter: cayneu tet |
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6. Travel Tip:
Hoa Dao - vietnamese peach blossoms
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Hoa Dao is a symbol in this important festival because of a legend about two deities, who always protected people in town from devils. They had a huge and beautiful peach tree of whose shadow the... Tags for this Chapter: hoadao peachblossoms tet |
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7. Travel Tip:
Tet Holidays in Vietnam
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One of the most important traditional festivals in Vietnam is Tet. This event marks the beginning of a new lunar new year coming throughout the whole country. The event always takes place at the... Tags for this Chapter: tet |
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