The program of Vietnamese New Year Festival 2021 will take place in 4 main activities: watching Tet, celebrating Tet, playing Tet, and the Tet market.

The program of Vietnamese New Year Festival 2021 will take place from January 21 to 24 at Le Van Tam Park (District 1, Ho Chi Minh City) with many interesting activities to honor Vietnamese cultural values ​​and cuisine. and stimulate demand for city tourism. 

The event consists of 4 main activities: watching Tet, celebrating Tet, playing Tet and the Tet market.

Specifically, the program “watching Tet” has a family space on Tet holiday of the North – Central – South regions in restored ancient houses, specifying the atmosphere to welcome the traditional New Year. The highlight here is the exhibition of Tet tray and fruit jam cake on spring day changed during the festival days.

Space to celebrate Vietnamese New Year 2020 

Part of the “Tet” program, visitors will enjoy the paradise of delicious Tet dishes in each country with thousands of unique “familiar and strange” dishes at the booths. the design bearing the distinctive mark of the North – Central – South regions such as: 20 ram rolls, spring rolls; 50 royal sticky rice dishes; Pho stories …

In the content of “playing Tet”, visitors and people will join in Tet games such as: tug of war, throw cans, throw around, blindfold and smash crutches … The scenes of Ho Gia Gao with artisans from All regions of the country will be performing artfully and uniquely at the Tet playground. In addition, families can take a photo tour at the flower street and participate in picking buds in early spring. 

In the space of “Tet Market”, there will be Tet specialties from different regions to be sold at 150 stalls in the form of Tet markets. Coming here, people will feel the bustling atmosphere of Tet and buy products to prepare Tet for their families.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Anh Hoa, Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Tourism, said that the Vietnamese New Year festival in 2021 focuses on giving families, especially children and young people the opportunity to experience the traditional New Year, and at the same time understand more about the meaning of Tet as well as the rituals in Vietnamese traditional Tet holidays.

Coming here, visitors will see firsthand the meaningful and traditional cultural spaces such as incense offering to pray for grandparents, New Year’s Eve ceremony, Lang Lieu story about the legend of banh chung. to the interesting story of the tree stating Tet.

The display of the tray in the style of each region helps many guests have the opportunity to learn the culinary culture of the regions in a vivid visual way. In the photo is the northern tray.

“The festival is a very meaningful event to meet the entertainment and entertainment needs of the people of the city as well as to attract tourists to the city during the Tet holiday to come back. preserving and promoting the traditional cultural values ​​of the nation and promoting a lively, open and friendly image of Ho Chi Minh City “, said Ms. Nguyen Thi Anh Hoa.

Mr. Nguyen Quoc Ky, President of the Vietnam Association of Culinary Culture, said that the Vietnamese Tet Festival has the mission to tell in an easy and attractive way about the customs and anecdotes of the traditional Vietnamese New Year to their children. , for young people with forms.

Tet of Vietnamese people especially attracts foreign visitors to participate in the experience

Previously, there were more than 50,000 tourists visiting and shopping at the Vietnamese New Year Festival 2020. During the three days of the Festival, the Organizing Committee wished to contribute a voice in preserving and preserving prices. good value and value of national traditions. 

It is expected that this year the festival will welcome more than 70,000 people visiting and shopping.

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