Vietnamese's Tet

What is tet ?

“Tet" is a word of Chinese origin and a phonetic transcription of "Tilt," a Sino-Vietnamese term which means "the joint of a bamboo stem" and, in a wider sense, the "beginning of a meteorological period of the year."

The passage from one period to the next may cause climatic disturbances (heat, rain, mist) that must be exorcised by ritual sacrifices and festivities. Thus, there are many Tets throughout the year (Mid-Autumn Tet, Cold Food Tet, etc.). The most important of all is "Tet Ca" ("Big Tit" or simply "Tet"), which marks the Lunar New Year.

Tet occurs somewhere in the last ten days of January or the first twenty days of February, nearly halfway between winter solstice and spring equinox. Although the Lunar New Year is observed throughout East Asia, each country celebrates Tet in its own way in conformity with its own national psyche and cultural conditions. For the Vietnamese people, Tet is like a combination of Christmas, Western New Year's Day, Easter, American Thanksgiving, and everyone's birthday. It is a festival of communion, purity, renewal, and universal peace

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