Vietnamese living abroad are celebrating the Lunar New Year (Tet) celebration - the most important traditional festival of Vietnamese people.

As a common habit, Vietnamese people often decorate their houses with peach blossoms, apricot blossoms, and kumquat trees during the Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival in the hopes for luck, wealth, and happiness to their family.

During the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival, each ethnic group in Vietnam has its own culinary specialties that reflect the culture of their people and are used as offerings to worship their ancestors.

Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh on February 8 visited medical workers and patients at the Vietnam – Germany Friendship Hospital and the Central Pediatrics Hospital in Hanoi, ahead of the Lunar New Year (Tet) festival.

A week-long event to honour Vietnamese products was launched at the Carrefour hypermarket in the Westfield Carré Sénart shopping centre in Seine-et-Marne province, Île-de-France, on February 7.

Arranging a five-fruit tray during the Lunar New Year celebration is a long-standing tradition in Vietnam.

Markets form a unique feature of every rural area whenever the Lunar New Year (Tet) approaches as they carry traditional cultural values and are deeply imbued with the soul of the Vietnamese countryside.

VOV.VN - A number of hospitals based in Ho Chi Minh City have organised various charity programmes, including zero-dong markets, in an effort to help patients and their families who have to spend their Tet in hospital.

VOV.VN - The traditional flower market located on Hang Luoc street in Hanoi has become overcrowded with customers in recent days as people prepare to welcome in the Lunar New Year, known locally as Tet, the country’s largest annual festival.

VOV.VN - The relationship between Russia and Vietnam showcases ties of both friendship and trust, with it being forged in the Vietnamese people’s struggle for freedom and independence which has been tested over time, Russian Ambassador to Vietnam G. S. Bezdetko said in a recent media interview given on the occasion of the Lunar New Year 2024.