Also known as Vietnamese New Year
Tết (, ), short for '''''' (; ), is the most important celebration in Vietnamese culture. Tết celebrates the arrival of spring, which is on the first day of the first Vietnamese lunisolar month, and usually falls between late January and 20 February in the Gregorian calendar.
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- Holiday.celebrations
- fireworks, family gatherings, family meals, visiting friends' homes on the first day of the new year (), visiting friends and relatives, ancestor veneration, making a creative work for luck (), giving red envelopes to children and elderly, and opening a shop
- Holiday.date
- First day of the first Vietnamese lunisolar month
- Holiday.frequency
- Annual
- Holiday.relatedto
- Lunar New Year Chinese New Year Japanese New Year Korean New Year Tsagaan Sar Losar Taiwanese New Year
- Holiday.imagesize
- 300px
- Holiday.caption
- Tết decorations in the streets of Ho Chi Minh City
- Holiday.longtype
- Religious, cultural, and national
- Holiday.date2025
- 29 January
- Holiday.date2026
- 17 February
- Holiday.date2027
- 6 February
- Holiday.type
- Asian Festival
- Holiday.holiday_name
- Vietnamese New YearTết Nguyên Đán節元旦
- Holiday.image
- Xuan 2016 Binh Than, duong nguyen hue, phuong ben nghe, Quận 1, TPHCM, Việt Nam - panoramio.jpg
- Holiday.official_name
- Tết Nguyên Đán
- Holiday.nickname
- Tết Lunar New Year (as a collective term including other Asian Lunar New Year festivals, used outside of Asia)
- Holiday.observedby
- Vietnamese
- Holiday.significance
- First day of the new year
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- History
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- Customs
- New Year in Tết
- Traditional celebrations
- Decorations
- Greetings
- Food
- Forms of entertainment
- Dates in the Vietnamese calendar
- Music
- See also
- Notes
- References
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Tết (, ), short for ''' (; ), is the most important celebration in Vietnamese culture. Tết celebrates the arrival of spring, which is on the first day of the first Vietnamese lunisolar month, and usually falls between late January and 20 February in the Gregorian calendar.
is not to be confused with Tết Trung Thu (Mid–Autumn Festival). "'" itself only means "festival", but it would generally refer to the Lunar New Year in Vietnamese, as it is often seen as the most important festival amongst the Vietnamese and the Vietnamese diaspora, with regarded as the second-most important.