On February 3rd, the organizing committee of the 2024 Tet Hue program held a competition for displaying New Year’s Eve offering trays and the exhibition space for the Tet five-fruit trays, traditional Hue cakes, and Tet flower vases.

According to the orders of Southern consumers, people making banh Tet (Tét cake), banh Chung (Chưng cake) in Chuon village have produced excellent cakes with their own taste to meet the demand of consumers in Ho Chi Minh City.

At the Thai Family Ancestral House, Prof. Dr. Thai Kim Lan’s family had prepared banh chung, banh tet, phap lam, and phu the cakes from the previous day. After finding a satisfactory bamboo pole, the homeowner would perform a ceremony to worship the ancestors and then arrange incense table, candle, betel nut, wine, etc. in front of the yard to begin the ritual. Red couplets would also be prepared in advance and written in a conventional calligraphy style. In a dignified and joyful atmosphere to welcome the new year, the bamboo pole will be erected with the joyful jingle of the bell hanging from the top of the bamboo pole. The bamboo pole will celebrate Tet with the family and neighborhood until it is lowered on the 7th of January (Lunar Calendar) when everyone goes back to work in the new year.

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.