As the traditional lunar New Year (Tet) Festival is approaching with a sense of harmony between Heaven and Earth, the Vietnamese people are busy preparing for a happy and joyful Tet holiday. The Vietnamese people never forget the humanitarian tradition of “The haves help the have-nots” to ensure that everyone can enjoy Tet wherever they are under any circumstances.
The Tet atmosphere pervades every corner of the country, from urban to rural areas, from the highlands to the lowlands and even flood-hit areas. If he were alive, President Ho Chi Minh would be very happy to see that the Vietnamese people are celebrating a happy Tet.
This year, the Tet holiday will fall on February 7, but we will celebrate the 78th anniversary of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) five days earlier. We are very grateful to the CPV – the ruling party of the Vietnamese working class and the Vietnamese nation. From hardship and darkness, the party has led our people to rise up, break the shackles of slavery, wrest back freedom and national independence, achieve national reunification and peace, and gradually integrate themselves into the region and the world.
Though it is not drizzling at the moment, everyone feels as if spring is knocking at the door. That is the spring of a united nation where fierce battles and air-raid sirens are now history. No matter how happy or sad you are, spring is bringing with high confidence and hope.
Whenever Tet comes, people in the mainland think of soldiers on the islands or in the border areas who are braving the cold weather to safeguard the nation. When the clock strikes 00.00 signalling the start of a new year, all the soldiers turn their hearts to the mainland and the capital city of Hanoi where their relatives are gathering for the Tet celebration, and tell themselves that they will stand firm to ensure a joyful Tet for all.
Celebrating the 78th anniversary of the Party, we burn incense to commemorate talented and prominent President Ho, who sketched out the guidelines for the Party, generations of Party members who sacrificed themselves for the revolutionary cause, and countless fellow countrymen who devoted their youth to the nation. We also burn incense to commemorate the workers who have laid down their lives on construction sites.
Celebrating the 78th anniversary of the Party, all Party members must strive to keep themselves virtuous. Trusting the Party, the people must care and build it to deserve a heroic party in the past struggles for national liberation and the present process of national construction and defence.
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