Tết
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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
New Year tree
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New Year trees are decorated trees similar to Christmas trees that are displayed to specifically celebrate the New Year. They should not be confused with the practice of leaving up a Christmas tree until after New Year's Day. New Year trees are common in various cultures and nations, chiefly the former Soviet Union, former Yugoslavia, Turkey, China and Vietnam.
New Year tree on the Red Square. Moscow, Russia.
New Year tree on Abdi İpekçi Avenue in Nişantaşı. Istanbul, Turkey.
A 1931 edition of the Soviet magazine Bezbozhnik, distributed by the League of Militant Atheists, depicting an Orthodox Christian priest being forbidden to cut down a tree for Christmas
New year decorations in a Turkish home