Of course not, and in addition to overseas Chinese, Vietnam, South Korea, North Korea, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, Indonesia (it seems to have been a legal holiday since last year), Malaysia, and mainly Asian countries After celebrating the Spring Festival, all that is left is for Chinese people living in other countries to celebrate the Spring Festival on their own.

The following is how Vietnam celebrates the Spring Festival:

Vietnam is one of the few countries in the world that uses the lunar calendar, and it is also one of the few countries where the entire country celebrates the Spring Festival.

The Spring Festival is the largest and most lively traditional festival in Vietnam. Vietnamese people regard the Spring Festival as a day to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. They usually start selling New Year goods in mid-December of the lunar calendar to prepare for the New Year. Historically, the most indispensable items during the Vietnamese Spring Festival are probably flowers, rice dumplings, spring couplets, and firecrackers?

< p>The flower market is one of the important activities of Vietnam’s Spring Festival. For example, in Hanoi, the flower market starts to get busy about 10 days before the Spring Festival. Vietnamese people’s favorite New Year flowers include gladiolus, dahlia, kumquat and peach blossom. In addition to flowers and bonsais, the flower market also sells all kinds of balloons, lanterns, toys, New Year pictures, Spring Festival couplets, calendars, etc., making the connected streets colorful and joyful.

Made with glutinous rice, pork and mung bean paste to make New Year rice dumplings

Vietnamese people also have the habit of posting Spring Festival couplets during the Spring Festival. In the past, the Spring Festival couplets were written in Chinese characters. After the pinyinization of the characters, most of the Spring Festival couplets are now written in pinyin. Each pinyin character is a square and has its own style.

In addition, Vietnamese people also like to paste the words "福" and "西西" and the images of blessing, fortune, and longevity stars on their homes, as well as various traditional New Year paintings to express their best wishes for the New Year and yearn for.

New Year cakes and other foods are essential for local Chinese to celebrate the Spring Festival, and Vietnamese are no exception. Among them, the most national characteristics are New Year rice dumplings and glutinous rice cakes.

The making of New Year’s rice dumplings is the same as the rice dumplings we eat, but Vietnamese New Year’s rice dumplings are square and much larger. They are usually made of 200 grams of glutinous rice, with 200 grams of pork and 150 grams of mung bean paste wrapped in the middle. Wrapped in banana leaves. Legend has it that the New Year rice dumpling symbolizes the earth, the green color shows the vitality, and the pork and mung bean paste represent the birds, animals and vegetation.

Vietnamese used to set off firecrackers during the Chinese New Year, but since 1995, the Vietnamese government has banned private people from setting off fireworks during the Spring Festival.

The Chinese have the custom of staying up late on New Year's Eve, and so do the Vietnamese. On New Year's Eve, people put on festive costumes and flocked to the streets. Young women also wore Vietnamese cheongsam. At zero o'clock, when the radio station broadcasts the Spring Festival speech of the national leader, the festive atmosphere reaches its climax. Later, people picked a branch to take home. This custom is called "picking green". In Vietnamese, "green" and "lu" have the same pronunciation. "Cai Lv" means "Cai Lu", which means bringing good luck home.

The first guest in the New Year will bring good luck

Vietnamese people usually take a few days off during the Spring Festival, and they also have the custom of visiting relatives and friends’ homes for New Year greetings. The first guest to visit the home for New Year greetings is particularly valued as it is said that he will bring good luck to the host. The Vietnamese call it "Chongjia" or "Chongdi", and its meaning is close to "Chongxi". Therefore, Vietnamese people usually invite their closest and most respected friends as the first guests in the New Year.

In addition to visits between relatives and friends, during the New Year period, various cultural and entertainment activities are held in streets, parks and public entertainment venues across Vietnam for several days, including performances of traditional Vietnamese dramas, songs and dances, acrobatics, martial arts, wrestling, There are lion dances, swings, human chess, cockfighting, bird fighting and other folk activities. The whole of Vietnam is immersed in a festive atmosphere