Tourists wearing Ao Dai check in at Home Hanoi Xuan 2025 flower street

On the first day of the new year, Ms. Pham Hoai Thuong's family wore red ao dai and went for a spring outing at Home Hanoi Xuan flower street. The whole family went for a walk, sightseeing, and taking photos. Occasionally, the couple told their young son stories of the old Tet holiday when they encountered familiar scenes.

“Red symbolizes luck, according to Asian beliefs. In this traditional space, my mother and I wear Ao Dai as a way to honor culture, educate our children to look back to their roots, love their country, and love their homeland,” Ms. Thuong added.

Home Hanoi Xuan 2025 Flower Street is located in Mailand Hanoi City urban area (An Khanh, Hoai Duc), opened to welcome visitors from January 16. This year's festival has the theme of Vietnamese Tet Concert, inspired by traditional music. Coming to the flower street, visitors will hear the sounds of folk songs resonating in a space filled with flowers.

Not only Ms. Thuong and her children, according to the organizers, thousands of tourists also wore ao dai to visit Home Hanoi Xuan during the festival.

Many people commented that the ceramic road with thousands of earthen jars, hundreds of flowers from all over the country or the path full of straw… makes this festival imbued with Vietnamese cultural identity, suitable for wearing flowing ao dai and taking 'virtual life' photos. "For the past few years, this has been a familiar destination when I take spring ao dai photos", said Ms. Bich Ngoc (Hoai Duc).

From adults to children, visitors can freely pose and check-in in Ao Dai with hundreds of flowers of Home Hanoi Xuan 2025.

The two sisters dressed each other up before their mother took a photo.

Groups of friends, families, and content creators also choose the ao dai and space of Home Hanoi Xuan as the location to film clips about Tet.

“Ao dai is formal but highly practical. I can use it on many occasions, from ceremonies, to work, to walking around town, to going out, to taking photos… When women wear it, it enhances their beauty and charm, and when men like me wear it, I feel elegant and mature,” said Mr. Truong Tai, a tourist visiting the flower street.

Children happily pose for photos in the traditional ao dai prepared by their parents on the first day of the new year.

Going deeper into the flower street area, at the calligraphy booths, many female tourists dressed in traditional costumes participated in asking for calligraphy and experiencing calligraphy writing. In Vietnamese culture, asking for calligraphy at the beginning of the year shows the spirit of learning, and at the same time conveys wishes in words.

The main stage of Home Hanoi Xuan 2025 flower street - where performances with cheerful melodies, imbued with the colors of Vietnamese Tet, attract the participation of many families and children.

The Pont de Long Bien walking street, inspired by the historic Long Bien bridge, also attracts many people wearing Ao Dai to visit. From modern to traditional, from individual to elegant, this area is a place many women choose as a spring outing and photo shoot location.

Ms. Anh Ngoc (Nam Tu Liem) in a white ao dai, walking on the walking street, taking a Spring photo series. “Ao dai is an endless inspiration for me to create Tet photo concepts. Each year has a different color, each year has a different style, from modern to traditional, I have taken dozens of photo series in this costume, never repeated and never bored,” Ngoc said.

During the half month of the event, many kindergartens and elementary schools in the surrounding area brought their students here for spring outings.

In Ao Dai, children experience folk games such as O An Quan, Tug of War, and stilt walking.

Home Hanoi Spring Flower Street 2025 lasts until February 3, free for people and tourists to visit and experience the Vietnamese Tet atmosphere in the West of the capital.

"Not only preserving traditional beauty, we expect the event to connect the community, illuminate cultural values ​​in modern life, bring a brilliant, emotional space, both familiar and fresh, close the old year and open a new year full of hope and prosperity," the organizing committee representative shared.

Home Hanoi Xuan was first organized in 2021, part of the network of events promoting the image of Hanoi - a creative city, according to the UNESCO project. The program was organized by Phu Long Company. UNESCO, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Hanoi Department of Culture and Sports, Hoai Duc District People's Committee, and Sovico Group accompanied.

DTTH

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