Talk about Tet holiday

Từ vựng chủ đề Tet holiday in Vietnam

Crucial moments – Những thời khắc quan trọng

1. New Year’s Eve = Giao Thừa
2. Tet holiday: Ngày lễ Tết
3. The New Year: Tân niên
4. Lunar New Year: Tết Nguyên Đán
5. Before New Year’s Eve: Tất niên
6. Fireworks: Pháo hoa

Foods – Các món ăn ngày Tết

7. Chung Cake / Square glutinous rice cake: Bánh Chưng
8. Dried candied fruits: Mứt
9. Fatty pork: Mỡ lợn
10. Five – fruit tray: Mâm ngũ quả
11. Dried bamboo shoots: Măng khô
12. Jellied meat: Thịt đông (món ăn phổ biến tại miền Bắc vào ngày Tết)
13. Lean pork paste: Giò lụa
14. Pickled onion: Dưa hành
15. Pickled small leeks: Củ kiệu
16. Pig trotters: Chân giò
17. Roasted watermelon seeds: Hạt dưa
18. Sunflower seeds: Hạt hướng dương
19. Pumpkin seeds: Hạt bí
20. Cashew nuts: Hạt điều
21. Pistachio nuts: Hạt dẻ cười
22. Sticky rice: Gạo nếp
23. Lotus seeds: mứt hạt sen

Hoạt động ngày Tết

24. Spring festival: Hội xuân
25. Family reunion: Cuộc đoàn tụ gia đình
26. Calligraphy pictures: Thư pháp
27. Decorate the house: Trang trí nhà cửa
28. Dragon dancers: Múa lân
29. Dress up: Ăn diện
30. Exchange New year’s wishes: Chúc Tết nhau
31. Firecrackers: Pháo (Pháo truyền thống, đốt nổ bùm bùm ý)
32. Go to pagoda to pray for: Đi chùa để cầu …
33. Visit relatives and friends: Thăm bà con bạn bè
34. Play cards: Đánh bài
35. Worship the ancestors: Thờ cúng tổ tiên
36. Go to flower market: Đi chợ hoa
37. To return to hometown: Về quê
38. Bid their ancestor farewell: Đưa ông bà

Biểu tượng Tết

39. Five – fruit tray: Mâm ngũ quả (5 dòng trái cây dưới mâm ngũ quả ngày Tết: mãng cầu, sung, dừa, đu đủ, xoài)
40. Annona: Mãng cầu
41. Figs: Quả sung
42. Coconut: Dừa
43. Pawpaw (papaya): Đu đủ
44. Mango: Xoài
45. Apricot blossom: Hoa mai
46. Peach blossom: Hoa đào
47. Kumquat tree: Cây quất
48. Marigold: Cúc vạn thọ
49. Chrysanthemum: Cúc đại đóa
50. Orchid: Hoa lan
51. Paperwhite: Hoa thủy tiên
52. The New Year tree: Cây nêu
53. Water melon: Dưa hấu

Các từ vựng khác về chủ đề Tết

54. Lunar / lunisolar calendar: Lịch Âm lịch
55. Rekindling love and bonding: Nhen nhóm ngọn lửa tình yêu và sự đoàn tụ
56. First caller: Người xông đất
57. Lucky money: Tiền lì xì
58. Ritual: Lễ nghi
59. Superstitious: Mê tín
60. Altar: Bàn thờ
61. Health, Happiness, Luck & Prosperity: “Khỏe mạnh, Hạnh phúc, May mắn, & Thịnh vượng”
62. Incense: Hương trầm
63. Parallel: Câu đối
64. Sweep the floor: Quét nhà
65. Taboo: Điều cấm kỵ
66. The kitchen god: Táo quân
67. D: Niềm vui sướng, hân hoan
68. Freshness: Tươi mới

Bài mẫu Talk about Tet holiday in Viet Nam – IELTS Speaking Part 2

Describe a national festival in your country

You should say:

Sample 1:

If you ask me about a famous festival in Vietnam, I will definitely talk about Tet Holiday, which is also known as Lunar New Year holiday in Vietnam.

It usually occurs at the end of January and lasts for 3 days. Tet holiday in Vietnam is usually in honor of the departure of the previous year and an occasion to welcome the new year with many blessings. On Tet holiday, we will have family unions to catch up with each other. Besides, some families enjoy this festival by preparing traditional food such as Vietnamese square cake, dried candied fruit, braised pork and eggs, etc. and decorating the house with parallel sentences and peach or apricot blossoms.

Especially, for children, I think they look forward to Tet holiday because they can receive lucky money from adults as a way to give them wishes for the new year. For adults, it is an occasion on which they are able to do the spring cleaning and make appetizing food to worship the ancestors.

I would say in this days and age, Tet has lost its original spirit and most adults treat it as a normal holiday in which they can have 2 weeks off to blow off some steam and release stress.

However, to me, Tet holiday is still a distinct festival of Vietnam. Whenever this holiday comes, I feel a strong sense of belonging because it reminds me of how diverse our culture can be with different rituals and food. Moreover, I think if Tet holiday didn’t exist, many family members would drift apart due to the hustle and bustle of life. However, since we have Tet, everyone will have at least one or two days to have family gatherings and tighten the bonds with other members.

So I guess that’s all I want to chia sẻ about Tet in Vietnam.

Sample 2:

Tet Nguyen Dan or Tet is the most important and popular holiday and festival in Vietnam. It is the Vietnamese New Year marking the arrival of spring based on the Lunar calendar, a lunisolar calendar. The name Tet Nguyen Dan is Sino-Vietnamese for Feast of the very First Morning.

Tet takes place from the first day of the first month of the Lunar calendar (around late January or early February) until at least the third day. Many Vietnamese prepare for Tet by cooking special holiday foods and cleaning their house. There are a lot of customs practiced during Tet such as visiting a person’s house on the first day of the new year (xông nhà), ancestral worship, wishing New Year’s greetings, giving lucky money to children and elderly people and opening a shop.

Tet is also an occasion for pilgrims and family reunions. During Tet, Vietnamese visits their relatives and temples, forgetting the troubles of the past year and hoping for a better upcoming year. They consider Tet to be the first day of spring and the festival is often called Hội xuân (spring festival).

Like other Asian countries, Vietnamese believe that the color of red and yellow will bring good fortune, which may explain why these colors can be seen everywhere in Lunar New Year. People consider what they do on the dawn of Tet will determine their fate for the whole year, hence people always smile and behave as nice as they can in the hope for a better year.

Vietnamese people usually return to their families during Tet. Some return to worship at the family altar or visit the graves of their ancestors in their homeland. Although Tet is a national holiday among all Vietnamese, each region and religion has its own customs.

Tet in the three Vietnamese regions can be divided into three periods, known as Tất Niên (Before New Year’s Eve), Giao Thừa (New Year’s Eve), and Tân Niên (the New Year), representing the preparation before Tet, the eve of Tet, and the days of and following Tet, respectively. All of these customs are to celebrate Tet in Vietnam.

Before New Year’s Eve

This period begins one or two weeks before the actual celebration. The general atmosphere leading up to Tet is in the bustle of shopping, decorating the home, cooking traditional Tet food and waiting for relatives to return home. People try to pay off their debts in advance so that they can be debt-free on Tet. Parents buy new clothes for their children so that the children can wear them when Tet arrives.

In the days leading up to Tet, the streets and markets are full of people. As the shops will be closed during Tet, everyone is busy buying food, clothes, and decorations for their house.

Vietnamese families usually have a family altar, to pay respect to their ancestors. Vietnamese families have a tray of five different fruits on their altar called “Ngũ Quả” (five fruits type).

During Tet the altar is thoroughly cleaned and new offerings are placed there. Traditionally, the three kitchen guardians for each house (Ông Táo) (Kitchen God) return to heaven on the 23rd day of the twelfth month by lunar calendar to give his annual report on family members to the Jade Emperor. Their departure is marked by a modest ceremony where the family offers sacrifices for them to use on their journey.

In the days leading up to Tet, each family cooks special holiday foods such as bánh chưng and bánh dầy. Preparations for these foods are quite extensive. Family members often take turns to keep watch on the fire overnight, telling each other stories about Tet of past years. One of very popular traditional food in Tet is Mut (candied fruits) which is not served in the meals but a snack to welcome guests visiting house and always kept in beautiful boxes and placed at the table in the living room.

The New Year

The first day of Tet is reserved for the nuclear family. Children wear their new clothes, give their elders the traditional Tet greetings before receiving the lucky money from them in exchange.

The traditional greetings are “Chúc Mừng Năm Mới” (Happy New Year) and “Cung Chúc Tân Xuân” (gracious wishes of the new spring). People also wish each other prosperity and luck. Common wishes for Tết include:

Sống lâu trăm tuổi (long life of 100 years): used by children for elders. Traditionally, everyone is one year older on Tet, so children would wish their grandparents health and longevity.

An khang thịnh vượng (security, good health, and prosperity)

Vạn sự như ý (may myriad things go according to your will)

Sức khỏe dồi dào (Plenty of health)

Cung hỉ phát tài (congratulations and be prosperous)

Tiền vô như nước (many money flows in like water): used informally

Since the Vietnamese believe that the very first visitor a family receives in the year determines their fortune for the entire year, a person of good temper, morality and success will be the lucky sign for the host family and be invited first into the house. This special activity is called xông đất or xông nhà, which is one of the most important rituals during Tet. According to Vietnamese tradition, if good things come to the family on the first day of the lunar New Year, the entire following year will also be full of blessings.

Sweeping during Tet is a taboo since it symbolizes sweeping the luck away. It is also a taboo for anyone who experienced a recent loss of a family member to visit anyone else during Tết.

During subsequent days, people visit relatives and friends. Traditionally but not strictly, the second day of Tet is usually reserved for friends, while the third day is for teachers, who command respect in Vietnam. Local Buddhist temples are popular spots as people like to give donations and to get their fortunes told during Tet.

Vietnamese families also buy home peach blossom trees, kumquat trees, and orange trees. They also buy flowers to decorate their homes such as chrysanthemums or orchids. They plant these flowers and put them into beautiful pots in front of or inside the house.

At Tet every house is usually decorated by Ochna integerrima (in the central and south Vietnam) or peach flower (in the North). In the north or central, the kumquat tree is a popular decoration for the living room during Tet. Its many fruits symbolize the fertility and fruitfulness that the family hopes for in the coming year.

Above all, time to Tet is counting down, so if you want to experience this extremely special event at least once in a life, just pack up your luggage and reserve a Lunar New Year trip in Vietnam!

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