In Hue, somewhere on the sidewalk, you can see Prunus Persica blossom trees nestling themselves next to an old tree. Those are Prunus Persica blossom trees that their owners left after Tet (Vietnamese New Year’s Day.)

The Tet fair in My Loi village (Vinh My commune, Phu Loc district, located to the South of Hue city) is traditionally only opened in the first three days of the Lunar New Year. The Tet Fair has been preserved and maintained for hundreds of years, showing the traditional culture of the countryside there.

Eye-catching packages of Phuc linh cookies, banh chung (square-shaped wrapped sticky rice), banh tet (tube-shaped wrapped sticky rice), mut thanh-tra (sugar-crystallized thanh-tra peels), and the forgotten toy figurines are now available on FoodMap as Tet necessities.

Experiencing Tet traditions in Hue with dried candied fruits and cake-making activities seems like an interesting spring greeting program, now running at L'art à Hué space (located at No. 1, Tran Thuc Nhan street in Hue City, from January 23rd to 30th.

Every year, in the days leading up to Tet, workers of Hue Green Park Center are busy preparing flowers and ornamental plants to display along the parks and central routes to welcome the new year.

By the end of November to the early of December (the eleventh and twelfth month of lunar calendar), local people in Thanh Tien village, Phu Mau commune (Hue city) are busy making paper flowers to meet the demand of worship and decoration for Tet holiday.

By capturing the moments through photos and videos about the customs and cultural beauty of Hue Tet (cuisine, festivals, customs, spring atmosphere, etc.,), the contestants can win the prizes with a total value of over 30 million VND.

On January 11, Kind Heart Foundation (Vingroup) has coordinated with Green Lotus Foundation (Thua Thien Hue Newspaper) to present Tet gifts to the poor and difficult households in mountainous communes of Phong Dien District.

For flower growers in Phu Mau, Phu Thuong, Thuy Van (Hue City), there are always sprouts raised on the loose soil beds, so that their gardens and fields are green, not only for Tet holiday. Therefore, it is not difficult to see colorful flower gardens shimmering in the wind, whether spring, summer, autumn or winter.

In order for yellow apricots to bloom in time to welcome Tet, in these days, Hue Green Park Center is mobilizing human and material resources to pick leaves off apricot trees in the gardens along Le Duan Street and in front of the Hue Imperial Citadel.