The days before Tet

These days, on the streets of cities and countryside, people see more hustle and bustle than usual, when there are only a few weeks left until Tet.

In preparation for Tet, supermarkets have imported many items, of various types and prices, to meet the needs of consumers. Grocery stores have imported many types of cakes, jams, beer, soft drinks, including dried bamboo shoots and dried nuts: chestnuts, macadamia nuts, pumpkin seeds, melon seeds; crispy spring rolls for Tet have also arrived. Ready-made clothing stores have also displayed many new models, in many colors and sizes. Fresh seafood and dried foods have continued to be sold at Phan Thiet market and local markets. At the lantern stalls in the area around Phan Thiet market, large and small lanterns, colorful decorative lights have been lit up to introduce to customers for many days. Along with many other items.

In parallel, the urban beautification and sidewalk construction in Phan Thiet have been and are being continued by the authorities, helping the sidewalks of Phan Thiet city to be paved with the same stone, of equal height, and much more beautiful. Many construction works are gradually being completed. The replacement of street name signs in Phan Thiet helps local people and tourists to easily identify, making it convenient for traveling, sightseeing, and learning.

Everything is busy, from the year to the days before Tet, from family economy, work at the agency, from home to office; then there will be Tet days when everyone can temporarily rest, to gather with family around the Tet meal, over a cup of tea with relatives, visit friends, wish each other good words, and be friendly in the first days of the new year. There are affections revealed in the warm Tet days: The affection of children and grandchildren when remembering the merits of their ancestors and grandparents, the affection of children when thinking about their parents, the affection of relatives.

Having celebrated many Tet holidays, people still have a belief: The New Year will bring good things to themselves and their families, different, better than the previous year, including health, work, money, and other lucky things, difficulties will pass, favorable conditions will come, everything will go smoothly. The author suddenly remembered the opinion of culturalist Huu Ngoc when he wrote about the traditional Tet spirit: “… Perhaps, nowhere else does the spring festival bring such deep, mysterious sympathy to an entire nation as the Vietnamese Tet: Sympathy between people and the universe, between the living and the dead, between the modern and the historical past, between the family - the village - the country, between people far away and people at home. It can be said: The Tet spirit is an aspect that represents the Vietnamese spirit. Tet represents the identity of the Vietnamese people, the crystallization of traditions for generations”.

Remembering ancestors, grandparents, visiting grandparents' graves, relatives' graves before Tet, cleaning the altar, bringing flowers, fruits, cakes to welcome ancestors from the 30th day of Tet, burning incense and praying to heaven and earth, ancestors and grandparents at New Year's Eve, maintaining family harmony, village harmony during Tet, participating in community festivals during traditional Tet holidays of the nation... Are those actions perhaps proof of the idea: "The soul of Vietnamese Tet is the national community spirit, expressed in ancestor worship at the beginning of the year, family values and sympathy in spring".

In the flow of national history, the Vietnamese New Year has been very sacred for many generations. Vietnamese New Year continues in the present years and will continue for a long time to come. Keeping the spirit of Vietnamese New Year, keeping the Vietnamese culture passed down for many generations, is keeping the love and respect for ancestors, the ancestors, the love, respect, deep gratitude for grandparents and parents, keeping the good things of the nation.

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