With less than a week left until the 2024 Lunar New Year, these days, many families are busy cleaning and decorating their townhouses – beautiful houses with decorative items with the hope of welcoming a new year. luck, health and fortune.
Ms. Cao Tuyet Minh next to the house filled with spring colors. Photo: NVCC
Ms. Cao Tuyet Minh (Hanoi) shared that this year she feels Tet is coming quickly, she still feels she cannot keep up with the hustle and bustle of Tet.
Ms. Minh’s living room is brightly decorated with traditional red tablecloths with motifs of peacocks, dahlias, chrysanthemums… Photo: NVCC
Ms. Minh said that the Lunar New Year of the Dragon is coming soon. At the end of a sad economic year, I hope the next year will be favorable for everyone.
The rooms are decorated in bright colors. Photo: NVCC
“The children all have an early Tet holiday, so I also want everything to be ready early, so that the children can see Tet when they are at home, and the whole family is not overwhelmed with too much work in the last days of the year. There is nothing much needed for Tet. , just coming home to see the colors of Tet: The red mixed in the lucky money, the tablecloth, some hanging items, the fire on the stove cooking banh chung, the bright pink of the blooming peach blossoms, the bright pink of the peach blossoms. The greenness of banh chung, the fresh branches and leaves, and a bit of simplicity from the colors of familiar things…”, Ms. Minh confided.
Ms. Minh also set up a stove to boil banh chung in the room so the children might feel the traditional Tet. Photo: NVCC
In the land of the South, Ms. Duong Quynh Anh (in Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City) said that once she was a Chinese bachelor, now she is a mother of 2 children. This year, Ms Quynh Anh decided to try to welcome spring no apricot, no peach but still spring – a spring with a Chinese feel in a beautiful Vietnamese house.
A red calligraphy card was hung on the wall by Ms. Quynh Anh, where she would write her wishes to hope for a happy new year. Photo: NVCC
Specifically, Ms Quynh Anh randomly hangs and sticks a Vietnamese calligraphy card (7x10cm) on the door and immediately has a very “Tet” space. Combine a couple of types of hanging such as concentric bows, silk ribbons, decorative tassels, and red ribbons to complete the task of bringing Tet home. Very cheap but high Tet effect.
Ms. Quynh Anh also took advantage of red jam boxes to decorate her house. Photo: NVCC
Ms. Cao Thanh Thuy (Ha Dong, Hanoi) said that in her and her husband’s small house of less than 65 square meters, every day for 365 years is spring day because there is almost no day without flowers.
The house with many types of Tet flowers arranged by Thuy. Photo: NVCC
“I’m very addicted to flowers, I’ve loved flowers since they were still buds, then they bloomed, even when they withered, I’m still in love with them.
When I was little, I dreamed that when I grew up, I would have a small garden with lots of flowers and a rose trellis climbing from the gate to the house that would bloom fragrantly all four seasons.
Growing up, due to poor conditions, I didn’t even have a large balcony to plant a few flower pots. So I put all my love for flowers and leaves into the flower vases I arrange every day,” Ms. Thuy confided.
Ms. Thuy added that even though she is busy with work, she tries to keep the small house always colorful. So that every time you open the door and step into the house, all your tiredness and sadness will be left behind, leaving only peace.
Peach blossoms are still the symbolic flowers of Tet, so Ms. Hoang Yen (Hanoi) chose to display them in her house very early so that the whole family can enjoy the Tet atmosphere for many days. Photo: NVCC
