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  • Essay / Lunar New Year Essay - 702

    Time flies like when people get old. Every year, many people around the world celebrate the New Year to say goodbye to the past year and welcome a new year. As all cultures around the world celebrate the New Year, in Asia, Lunar New Year is the traditional holiday that people celebrate that year according to the moon calendar. Viet Nam is also one of the countries that celebrates the Lunar New Year. However, before leaving their country, Vietnamese people learned and followed their own traditional way of life during the celebration of the Lunar New Year. After the Vietnam War, Vietnamese expatriates left their country to find freedom, a better life, and a better community. At the same time, they will not forget their own traditional holiday of celebrating the Lunar New Year in a new country, because they hope that freedom and happiness will come to their country. For example, the Vietnamese have a red envelope which means for prosperity. and the luck that blesses the eldest to the youngest. It also means for many to exchange good wishes, longevity, prosperity and wealth for happiness in the coming year with a blessed person. As for food, nothing can replace sticky rice and dried young bamboo soup at Vietnamese New Year dinner. It is a must-have for a traditional Vietnamese New Year dinner and also a good luck charm and a great fairy tale story behind the New Year foods dinner. Moreover, with decoration worthy of charms, Vietnamese people decorate their house with flowering plants like cherry blossoms and yellow apricot flowers to welcome the new year. Flowering plants mean bringing a new spring season into the family, a feeling of happiness, warmth, colors in many Vietnamese homes and a feeling of luck.