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.

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.

It looks as if they are just dry firewood branches, but only after 5 - 10 days of watering and caring can these dry branches sprout, blossom with vitality.

A newspaper exhibition for Spring 2022, from January 25th to February 10th at the Provincial General Library, would be an activity to welcome the traditional Tet holiday and celebrate the 92nd founding anniversary of the Communist Party.

Besides traditional flowers such as chrysanthemum, marigold, and lily flowers, etc., the flower-growing farmers also grow many new flowers including orchid, and purple heather flowers.

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.

Having become an important part of every Tet holiday, the spring flower spaces are not only a place for flowers to bloom together but also a place to seek aspiration for a favorable new year; contributing to attracting tourists.

Among the activities to welcome the 2022 Lunar New Year, on the morning of January 25 (23rd December, Lunar calendar), Hue Monuments Conservation Center held the bamboo pole erection ceremony (Thuong Tieu) in Trieu To Mieu and Hien Lam Cac - The Mieu in the Citadel.

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.