Traditional systems New Year first-footer check Find a well-matched first visitor for Tết, with birth years and reasons.
Start Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief Vietnamese travellers use departure dates, vehicle blessings and safety amulets to manage risk on uncertain roads, an anthropologist finds.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief A new car blessing usually has flowers, fruit, roast pork or chicken or a vegetarian tray, salt, rice, wine, tea and votive paper, set before the car.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Tarot New Year Tarot spreads include 12-month layouts and themed spreads, with meanings for each position and a reflective, non-superstitious approach.
Updated 16 Aug 2026 Modern system
Knowledge › Western › Astrology The New Moon marks the start of a lunar cycle of about 29.5 days, a phase for setting intentions and beginning new projects.
Updated 26 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Vietnam's ethnic communities Comparing Lunar New Year of the Kinh, Chôl Chnăm Thmay of the Khmer, and ethnic groups with their own calendars: timing, offerings, rituals, and names.
Updated 19 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Regions Tet customs in Northern, Central, and Southern Vietnam share roots but differ in dishes and rituals, from banh chung to bitter melon soup.
Updated 10 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites Chôl Chnăm Thmây is the Khmer New Year, held in mid-April over three days with rituals like the Maha Sangkran procession and bathing the Buddha.
Updated 5 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customs Vietnamese Lunar New Year customs: the Kitchen Gods send-off, New Year's Eve rites, first-footing, and lucky money, with the meaning behind each.
Updated 5 Jul 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The New Rice Festival of the M'Nong in the Central Highlands thanks the heavens and the rice spirit, with a buffalo sacrifice at its heart.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites The New Rice Festival of the Cao Lan people in Tuyên Quang gives thanks to ancestors and nature after the harvest, with a neu tree and new rice.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals The New Rice Festival is when the Xơ Đăng people of the Central Highlands thank the gods and spirits for a bountiful harvest.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites A guide to preparing New Year's Eve offerings, arranging the outdoor and indoor trays by Vietnamese custom, with safety notes and regional differences.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional food The Hue Tet feast blends royal essence with folk culture, shaped by a philosophy of frugality, elegance, harmony and transformation.
Updated 28 Jun 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Rija Nâgar is the main new year rite of the Brahmanist Chăm: a prayer for good rain and harvest and a sending off of the misfortunes of the old year.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites Khụ Sự Chà, the Hà Nhì New Rice Festival in Mường Nhé, Điện Biên, thanks ancestors with floating cakes, pig liver divination and glutinous rice pounding.
Updated 29 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional festivals Bunpimay, the Lao New Year in Vietnam, also called Bun Huột Nặm: offerings to the spirits, wrist-thread tying and water splashing in mid April.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam Southern Vietnam worship spans Thành hoàng, Bà Chúa Xứ, Mẫu, whale and ancestor veneration. Its origins, cultural fusion and modern shifts are examined.
Updated 6 Oct 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites New Year's Day in Vietnam comes from the Gregorian calendar, adopted in the French colonial period, and later became an official public holiday.
Updated 16 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk belief A guide to the Vietnamese housewarming ritual (nhập trạch): the offerings and each step in order, from the auspicious date to moving in.
Updated 26 Jun 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Traditional food Duck, squid, banana, shrimp, snail and fertilized duck eggs are avoided at new year in Vietnamese folk belief, which links them to bad luck.
Updated 13 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs Which peoples in Vietnam keep their own New Year apart from Tết Nguyên Đán? The Mông, Hà Nhì, Khmer, Chăm and others, as reported in the press.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Date and hour selection Year-end dates for the gathering, altar cleaning, debt repayment and New Year opening: lunar calendar principles and flexible use without superstition.
Updated 16 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Hexagram 54 Lei Ze Gui Mei in the I Ching covers entering a bond without holding the initiative, with the judgment, six line texts and the Image.
Updated 26 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customs How Lunar New Year among the Hoa of Chợ Lớn differs from Vietnamese Tết: Kitchen God send-off, offerings, bánh tổ, assembly halls, visiting order.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Folk traditional practices Kieu fortune telling at Tet uses verses from Nguyễn Du's Tale of Kieu to predict outcomes. A randomly opened verse is read as an omen for the year.
Updated 10 Jul 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Festival customs Southern and northern Tết Eve worship differ in the outdoor Heaven altar, the indoor tray and offerings, with origins, meaning and how to prepare each.
Updated 17 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs Nào Pê Chầu, the Mông New Year, falls a month before Tết Nguyên Đán: sweeping the soot, the Xử Ka offering, the year-end meal and fetching new water.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › Lunar calendar Vietnamese and Chinese Tet differ because the new moon is calculated in different time zones and leap months follow different rules.
Updated 16 Oct 2026 Calendar and astronomy
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs New Year gift-giving among the Tày and Nùng of Cao Bằng and Hà Giang and lì xì in a Hoa family in Chợ Lớn: who gives to whom, with what, and when.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Eastern › I Ching Hexagram Hỏa Phong Đỉnh, No. 50 in the I Ching, is the three-legged ritual cauldron that cooks the new after the old is discarded.
Updated 26 Sept 2026 Traditional systems
Knowledge › Vietnam › Ethnic minority customs The Khơ Mú new rice celebration in Than Uyên, Lai Châu gives thanks to ancestors and the land spirit after harvest, with singing to welcome the new rice.
Updated 27 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites Asking for calligraphy at the Temple of Literature is a beautiful Vietnamese Tet custom, showing respect for knowledge and sending new year wishes.
Updated 16 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Western › Psychology Contagious magic rests on two laws: contact transfers properties, and similarity means shared essence. Rozin's 1986 experiments show they still shape us.
Updated 27 Sept 2026
Knowledge › Vietnam › Historical figures Ngô Quyền, the 938 Battle of Bạch Đằng, and the journey from Từ Lương Xâm to the new temple in Cổ Loa, showing the gratitude of later generations.
Updated 12 Aug 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites First-day Tet travel for 2027: how to choose the hour and direction, prepare offerings, and follow the route, plus why sources disagree on the calculations.
Updated 21 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customs First-footing is an old Vietnamese Tet custom: the first person to enter a home after midnight is believed to carry the year's fortune.
Updated 13 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet and seasonal rites Where the custom of a Lunar New Year opening day comes from, and what people weigh up when picking a date and preparing offerings.
Updated 17 Sept 2026 Culture and belief
Knowledge › Vietnam › Tet customs Khai bút, the Vietnamese custom of writing the first words of the new year: its legend of teacher Chu Văn An, when people do it, and what to write.
Updated 12 Oct 2026 Culture and belief
Games Who should first-foot your home this Tết, plus a New Year card.
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