According to the Vietnam News Agency correspondent in Sydney, for Vietnamese children living far away from home, especially overseas Vietnamese, Tet is not only an opportunity for the whole family to reunite, but also an opportunity to remind children and grandchildren to return to their roots. .
And overseas Vietnamese in Australia are no exception. In many different ways, the traditional cultural features of the Vietnamese people on Tet holiday are still preserved and promoted.
Every year, on every occasion of the Lunar New Year, Pham Hop’s family – an overseas Vietnamese living in Sydney, Australia – gathers with family and friends to prepare a traditional Vietnamese meal. .
In particular, these are all multicultural families with Vietnamese-Australian children. However, no matter where, in any country, Vietnamese mothers always try to preserve Tet culture Vietnamese in the family and for future generations.
[Tăng cường đại đoàn kết dân tộc để kiều bào là “cánh tay nối dài]
Although she has lived and worked in Sydney for more than 18 years, for Ms. Hop, in addition to using Vietnamese in communication to preserve her mother tongue, preserving customs and Tet holidays is the best way to educate her children. regarding human morality, tradition and cultural identity of the nation.
Therefore, even though she has an Australian husband and two Vietnamese-Australian children, Hop is always mindful of how to make her children understand and appreciate the traditional cultural beauties of Vietnam. feel close, attached to the homeland and proud of carrying Vietnamese blood.
Sharing with a VNA reporter, Pham Hop said that she always reminds her children to preserve the traditional Tet because it is the national cultural identity of the Vietnamese people.
And her children also seem to understand that, so every Lunar New Year, they prepare with their mother mane in accordance with Vietnamese tradition for the whole family to gather together.
What’s even happier for her is that her husband, Paul MacDonald, although not a Vietnamese, loves Vietnamese culture very much.
Vietnamese dishes are indispensable in overseas Vietnamese families in Australia (Photo: Thanh Tu/Vietnam+)He likes to watch his wife leisurely in ao dai and enjoy exquisite Vietnamese dishes cooked by his wife. Thanks to his wife’s meticulousness and love of traditional culture, now Australian-born sons-in-law like Paul McDonald have somewhat better understand regarding the Lunar New Year and are more and more interested in Vietnamese culture.
He said that on Vietnamese New Year’s holidays, he and his wife often gather with friends around traditional Vietnamese rice trays to help his wife relieve homesickness, homesickness and feel the New Year. Far away from home becomes much closer.
As a Vietnamese, wherever you are, you must preserve Vietnamese culture, traditions, and Vietnamese customs. Therefore, like Hop, Tran Hai, another overseas Vietnamese mother, always tries to convey to her children regarding the culture and national identity.
This is also a reminder to herself and her children: never forget your Vietnamese roots.
For her, preparing a meal together and gathering around the family tray of rice on New Year’s Day is extremely sacred and indispensable, helping her feel close as if living in the atmosphere of Tet in her homeland.
Understanding his wife’s feelings, Mr. Mike Langford – Hai’s husband – also looks forward to the traditional Vietnamese New Year every year and creates the atmosphere closest to Tet in Vietnam so that his wife can relieve her nostalgia. home, miss home.
He is always proud that his family is fortunate to have two Vietnamese-Australian bloodlines, so he can enjoy different cultures and rich identities.
Thanks to the education of Vietnamese mothers, children born and raised in foreign countries still understand the value of Vietnamese culture and appreciate the meaning of the national traditional Tet. awakening to the origin.
Emily, Hop’s daughter, confided: “I really like Vietnamese New Year because I can eat delicious food cooked by my mother, and my mother explains the cultural traditions of Vietnamese people and children like us. I like the custom of receiving money to celebrate the new year.”
For Vietnamese people far from home, “keeping the fire” Vietnamese New Year is an extremely important and indispensable part because it is not only preserving the traditional culture, preserving the soul of the homeland, but it is also a way to help relieve the nostalgia for the homeland, family, and friends. and relatives, is a way for the next generation, even if born and raised abroad, to understand, feel and inherit the core of Vietnamese national culture.
(VNA/Vietnam+)