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Tet

The Vietnamese lunar new year: banh chung, peach blossom and kumquat trees, red envelopes and a return to family.

Tết: Bánh chưng making
Photo: vi:Lưu Ly, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

When is Tet in 2027?

Tet 2027 runs from 7 to 11 February 2027. Other years: 2026, 17 to 21 February 2026; 2028, 26 to 30 January 2028.

About Tet

Tet Nguyen Dan is the most important holiday in Vietnam. Families clean and decorate their homes with branches of peach blossom in the north and yellow apricot in the south, and kumquat trees laden with fruit. A week before, they offer prayers to the Kitchen Gods, who travel to the heavens to report on the family. On the eve, the family stays up to see in the new year, and the first visitor, the xong dat, is chosen with care for their luck. The ancestors are invited home with an altar of food and incense. Children receive li xi, red envelopes of money. The traditional foods are banh chung, a square sticky rice cake, and banh tet, a cylindrical one.

Tet dates: 2026, 2027, 2028

YearTet date
202617 to 21 February 2026
20277 to 11 February 2027
202826 to 30 January 2028

What is eaten

  • banh chung
  • banh tet
  • thit kho
  • mut

Also part of it, and being written: Banh chung (The square sticky rice cake of the north.), Kitchen God (The deity who reports on the family.), Li xi (The red envelope of money.), Hoa Binh flower market (Tet flower markets across Vietnam.).

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About this page

Written by the EveryParampara desk with AI assistance. Background: "Tết" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

Photo credits on this page

The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.

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