Tens of thousands of monks, nuns, Buddhists and tourists from Vietnam and abroad have flocked to pagodas and Spring festivals at the beginning of the Year of the Snake, wishing for peace, good weather, happiness and prosperity.
(VOV) - National Coordinator of the Mexican Workers’ Party (PT) Alberto Anaya Gutierrez visited and extended New Year greetings to Vietnamese health experts working in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon state, on February 12.
The Lo Lo ethnic minority group’s ancestral worship was recently recognised as a national intangible cultural heritage. It is also the special cultural identity of ethnic people inhabiting Dong Van Stone Plateau in mountainous northern Ha Giang province.
On the occasion of the Lunar New Year (Tet), the Vietnamese community in Australia have gathered to welcome their biggest festival of the year, serving traditional Vietnamese food like Chung (Square) cake, Xoi (steamed glutinous rice) and Gio Lua (lean pork paste).
President Truong Tan Sang on February 13 made a Lunar New Year visit to the Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap and inquired into the building of new rural areas in the locality.
Cai Lan Port in northern Quang Ninh province on February 13 welcomed the first two Panamanian cargo ships, Taio Frontier and Forest Harmony, to load goods in the Lunar New Year.
Life changes everyday and there are many differences to today’s traditional Lunar New Year (Tet) festival compared to past Tets. Despite each person’s individual feelings and whatever the changes are, for photographers, Tet will always reflect Hanoian culture.
While the nation enjoys Tet, on February 12 (3rd day of the 2013 Lunar New Year) more than 1,200 fishing vessels from Song Doc town, Tran Van Thoi district of southern Ca Mau province headed out to sea, with hope for a successful first catch of the year.
Miniature books and their delicate appearance have bewitched painter Nguyen Thanh Dam. He himself made some tiny, beautiful work of arts and also collected them from far and wide.
In the first days of the 2013 Year of the Snake, Vietnamese in Laos flocked to Phat Tich and Bang Long pagodas to ask for peace, wealth and luck, as well as to extend New Year greetings to each other.