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 has the date in January or February in the Gregorian calendar.
A family gathering to make bánh tét for Tết celebrations.
Tất Niên offering
A family altar in Vietnam
Altar to the ancestors
The culture of Vietnam are the customs and traditions of the Kinh people and the other ethnic groups of Vietnam. Vietnam is part of Southeast Asia and the Sinosphere due to the influence of Chinese culture on Vietnamese culture.
Buddhist architecture (seen here is the One Pillar Pagoda) prevalent in Vietnam
Imperial City in Huế, the former imperial capital
A woman wearing an áo dài, a modernized national garment created around the 1930s
Vietnamese calligraphy depicting people on a boat, the calligraphy says, "Thuyền nhân"