This is the second year Ark Oval Primary Academy has organised a Lunar New Year celebration to showcase the diversity of cultures and celebrate the unique differences between traditional festivals to 600 students, teachers and parents.
All students are required by teachers to wear red and yellow - colors that symbolize luck and prosperity on Lunar New Year.
Ark Oval Primary Academy is a top school in Croydon with a history of over 150 years, 67 languages spoken from 40 different countries by students and teachers.
Ark Oval Primary Academy students are excited about Vietnamese Tet.
Dr. Thoai Nguyen, Vice President of the Vietnam International Women's Federation (UK), founder of the Vietnam International Awards, expressed her deep gratitude to the school board, teachers, students and parents who attended the event introducing Vietnamese Tet culture.
The female doctor also gave the principal Shiraz Khan a satisfactory spring gift with a paper box printed with the image of the Giap Thin dragon containing vermicelli, pho, and five-color noodles.
At the festival, designer Anna Hoang, LOANI VN-UK Young Ambassador and the British Born Vietnamese Talents group performed traditional Vietnamese ao dai, recreating the unique features of Vietnamese Tet culture with apricot blossoms, peach blossoms, banh chung, lucky money, and New Year wishes.
The children also got to chat together, take part in quizzes, sing and dance to the rhythm of Tet songs on stage with fun Tet music, joining hands to spread the beauty of Vietnamese Tet culture to international friends.
The students were taught by Dr. Nguyen Nhu Thoai and Anna Hoang how to say Tet greetings in Vietnamese, and were guided on how to wrap banh chung, from choosing the ingredients to how to wrap them. These banh chung were also boiled for 10-12 hours, making the students burst into tears of joy.
At the same time, the children were also introduced to the Vietnamese way of decorating their homes to celebrate Tet and the custom of giving lucky money at the beginning of the year.
Vietnamese Tet in school in London.
Previously, on February 17, the Ao Dai brand Love Collection of Anna Hoang, young ambassador of LOANI VN-UK, also introduced the Vietnamese Tet Ao Dai collection at London Fashion Week, which was praised by the world media in the pages of the newspaper "A cultural adventure on the runway".
Love Collection, a collection of Vietnamese Tet Ao Dai, unfolds like a visual adventure across Vietnam, with 28 meticulously crafted designs for both adults and children. Each piece is filled with traditional Tet motifs, telling stories of Vietnam’s rich cultural tapestry and universal themes of love and hope.
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