A journey through time: Old photos of Tet in Hanoi 90 years ago
Take a peek into the past to see how the cherished traditional Tet looked like. Photos via Flickr/manhhai.
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| Cherry blossoms were being sold at a corner of Dong Xuan Market. |
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| Waiting to get blessings written in calligraphy, a New Year tradition that is still kept alive today in the capital. |
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| People curiously surround a balloon store in Hanoi. |
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| Bamboo leaves used to wrap banh chung, a special Tet rice cake, are on sale at a stall in the market. |
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| A woman selling votive paper offerings. The practice of burning them during Tet symbolizes how family members continue to remember and care for the deceased, as well as the gods and spirits. |
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| Another woman picks bananas amid the crowded Dong Xuan Market. |
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| Dong Xuan Market from afar. |
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| Ngoc Son Pagoda during Tet of 1928. |
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| A fortune-teller and his customers under the Pen Tower, or Thap But. |
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| Children from a noble family visit and wish their parents good health in the first days of the new year in Xa La Village, Ha Dong (now Hanoi's suburban district). |
