Tomorrow I am starting a new job, today I am resting. I made wonton and cabbage soup, so I can have a full purse and lots of money this year to help my boyfriend feel like he doesn’t have to be working such long days.
I'm Persian and it's really interesting how similar our new year's cultures are like buying new piece of clothing, having packed beauty salons, cleaning the house from top to bottom, visiting each other back and forth, giving money to children, eating nuts including what you mentioned. Food is also important for our new year day and fish is a common one.
In The South in the US, we clean right before New Year's Day, because we believe that if you sweep on New Year's Day you are sweeping the good luck out of the door. We eat black-eyed peas, collard greens, and corn bread because the collard greens represent paper money (green backs), the black-eyed peas represent wishes (one wish for every pea consumed), and the yellow corn bread represents gold.
I mean, doesn't everyone clean their house, cook tons of food, wash up, and put on new pretty/new clothes before the New Year? I thought that's universal. 😅 We do the exact same things (I'm from Ukraine living in Bulgaria, so we celebrate in a post USSR style). I can't imagine people not cleaning their house and cooking for 100 people. 😃 I think the only difference for us is that we buy presents because giving money is considered as not caring for the other enough because you 1) didn't pay attention to what the receiver would like to get, and 2) you didn't go out of your way to find it and wrap it up nicely. So overall, giving money is for the lazy bums who are not your real friends/family. New Years is THE biggest family holiday for us (most post Soviet countries), not Christmas. 👨👩👧👦 However, we also exchange presents with friends, not only family. I wouldn't mind receiving money now that I'm older, but in Vietnam, I guess I'd be the one giving 😂
I can’t believe how much similarity there was between Persian /iranian new year and Vietnamese , cleaning the house, buying new cloth, giving money to children , having sunflower seeds. Persians also read poetry ,visit relatives and get visited back, while at each others home snack on nuts and also sunflower seeds with sweets and tea . Loved it !
As a Vietnamese, let me tell you. Our new year culture is mostly based on Chinese New Year culture like what you see those red decorations at 5:35 and 6:40, cleaning houses, get new clothes, etc. We Vietnamese didn't have that kind of things in the past, but since we have watched a lot of Chinese movies, exposed to Chinese culture, and have more contacts with a lot of Chinese people especially in the last 40 years, we have gradually followed the Chinese way of celebrating Chinese culture because we really love Chinese culture. That is why many people see so much similarity between our vietnamese culture and Chinese culture.
That's because everyone in the whole world does this. The difference is the types of decorations, food, clothing and gifts. Everyone in the comments is saying the same thing, because everyone does the same thing.
@@MissLucy-u1r As a German, I disagree. I've never heard of any similar traditions in Germany. Giving away money for luck is not a concept here, you don't clean your house for new years (instead we do big spring cleaning to prepare for the summer), we don't have any customs where people visit each others houses (you might celebrate at someone elses house together with that family, but there is no culture of visiting someone if they visited you), we use lots of sunflower oil and put it in bread but it's not that widespread to eat sunflower seeds, there is no culture of going to beauty saloons/preparing your looks for new years or any other cultural event, there is no culture of preparing food together besides maybe in the fall. So, definitely not "the whole world".
I'm a viet kieu living in the Czech republic and my mom has never properly told me how Tet is celebrated, she never decorates or cleans the house before Tet. She would just give some food to the ancestors and a moment later we eat it. Otherwise we continue our day as usual - we work all day in our vietnamese grocery shop. Thank you so much for such educational videos. I love getting to know my own culture better
@@uyenninhNew Years for the Anglosphere (US, UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, NZ) is very subdued. You drink, watch the ball drop, drink some more, and have the day off of work to nurse your hangover for January 1. You also have to kiss someone at exactly midnight. Then you make a New Year’s resolution that you will inevitably give up on in February.
As a Vietnamese, let me tell you. Our new year culture is mostly based on Chinese New Year culture like what you see those red decorations at 5:35 and 6:40. We Vietnamese didn't have that kind of things in the past, but since we have watched a lot of Chinese movies, exposed to Chinese culture, and have more contacts with a lot of Chinese people especially in the last 40 years, we have gradually followed the Chinese way of celebrating Chinese culture because we really love Chinese culture. That is why many people see so much similarity between our vietnamese culture and Chinese culture.
As a Vietnamese, let me tell you. Our new year culture is mostly based on Chinese New Year culture like what you see those red decorations at 5:35 and 6:40. We Vietnamese didn't have that kind of things in the past, but since we have watched a lot of Chinese movies, exposed to Chinese culture, and have more contacts with a lot of Chinese people especially in the last 40 years, we have gradually followed the Chinese way of celebrating Chinese culture because we really love Chinese culture. That is why many people see so much similarity between our vietnamese culture and Chinese culture.
your mom might not show it but she is overjoyed you are with her there to share preparing for the new year festivities! she is amazing! and shows so much love for her family by her hard work. thanks mom! i am a mom and grandma so i know😊😉
Your Parents house is gorgeous ! The furniture is soooo beautiful, but just that garden and patio, incredible. Seriously a dream home! Happy New Year, to all of your family !
Happy Snake Year … Your mom is really great .. cleaning such big house and make that cake (24 hours) … can’t believe … Good health and good wealth to you and your family ..and good film in snake year .
Those are exquisitely wrapped. I love seeing people take pride in their work like this. Kudos to your mom. Also, I'm surprised how much they cost. 30 EU for the fan in Europe or the states makes sense, I would have expected it to be much cheaper in Vietnam. Learn something new every day. Vietnam isn't as cheap as I thought.
Maybe Uyen did not haggle. Apparently, there is no marked prices at markets, they can charge what they want, it's up to you to bring the price down. I agree with you, 30 Euros is a lot of money for the locals, I would not expect to pay that much, even in Europe.
@@ChrissieSM Uyen is Vietnamese, of course she haggled. But now that Uyen is able to financial contribute, I think she likes to spoil her family and by the best handmade decorations she can. I think 30 euro is good for such beautiful decorations that I am sure Uyen takes great pride in them.
I am German and as you probably know, celebrating New Year is slightly more connected to friends, while Christmas is more with family, parents, grandparents, siblings, cousins and nieces and nephews. When I was young, fireworks were a major part of the party, which we by the way often call with the name of the Christian Saint Silvester (it's a Silvester-Party). However, there's some discussion recently about the fireworks, since blowing up some 300 million Euro just for fireworks in one night (that's what Germans spend for it annually) is considered no longer adequate, at least by some of us. Please explain this lucky money to us. So children get it from their relatives? But what can you do with it? Can you actually "spend" it somewhere, somehow? How is the luck " cashed out"? I remember something about burning it?! My second question is about the Lunar New Year/Tet: Is that related to the Chinese New Year? I work with a lot Chinese partners, and most of them are not available during Mid January for about two weeks. Do they celebrate the same thing?
@@linuxtag2009 I am Vietnamese-Chinese-Canadian, and I will like to answer your questions. The lucky money is usually given by married people to children or young(er) adults. Parents and/or grandparents also give them to their children/grandchildren, regardless of age. It is for the recipients to do as they wish (spend, or save). The "burning" of the money she mentioned is fake money people burn for their dead ancestors during a ritual. In this ritual, various food are offered, as well as fake money, paper clothing, and other blings are burned for them. The dead ancestors ALWAYS gets to eat first, and once the ritual is done, family then consumed them. However, bowels of fruits and snacks are kept at the shrine until after the new year. The burning items are to make sure the ancestors have enough to spend and wear in the underworld, and, in return, they will bless the living with wealth, health and prosperity, etc. Yes, Tet is the same as Chinese New Year. Different languages, hence different names, but same same.
Im also a Vietnamese but live in Germany. It's really interesting to see how Vietnamese people celebrate new year in Vietnam! Thanks for sharing! Through your videos I can learn more about my culture. Chúc mừng năm mới ☆
This reminds me of our New year celebration in April. In South Asia we celebrate solar new year just like the lunar new year. Our New Year begins when the sun transitions from the house of Pisces to the house of Aries. Cleaning every inch of our houses, preparing traditional sweets, going to temples, worshipping our elders, having meals with our relatives and friends. So much alike. We are having nearly a week for this new year celebration. Lots of love from Sri Lanka. ❤
As a Vietnamese, let me tell you. Our new year culture is mostly based on Chinese New Year culture like what you see those red decorations at 5:35 and 6:40. We Vietnamese didn't have that kind of things in the past, but since we have watched a lot of Chinese movies, exposed to Chinese culture, and have more contacts with a lot of Chinese people especially in the last 40 years, we have gradually followed the Chinese way of celebrating Chinese culture because we really love Chinese culture. That is why many people see so much similarity between our vietnamese culture and Chinese culture.
@3quevndog873 So nice. I saw similarities between lunar and solar new year celebrations. In this busy world, having these kinds of traditions are like a healing therapy and a glue to maintain family bonds.
@@umeshabandara3711 don't listen to that person's nonsense. Even thou China colonized Vietnam more than a thousand year in the past, there are some influence that we adapt, Vietnamese already celebrate Tet (or Lunar New Year) way before Chinese invaded us
I left my country when I was little but watching your videos makes me miss the memories I did have of our new year before I left. I miss how everyone start preparing dishes so the air around our town changed to a sweet smell. I miss getting and giving new cloths every one. I miss the very long and labouring meals every the neighborhood moms would get together to make while us kids played late into the night. I miss being part of a community that all celebrated together.
As a Vietnamese, let me tell you. Our new year culture is mostly based on Chinese New Year culture like what you see those red decorations at 5:35 and 6:40. We Vietnamese didn't have that kind of things in the past, but since we have watched a lot of Chinese movies, exposed to Chinese culture, and have more contacts with a lot of Chinese people especially in the last 40 years, we have gradually followed the Chinese way of celebrating Chinese culture because we really love Chinese culture. That is why many people see so much similarity between our vietnamese culture and Chinese culture.
I'm mexican and this is giving me flashbacks of Christmas and new year's: cleaning, preparing food and tamales, more cleaning, getting snacks in abundance because we stay up all night, new hairstyles, new shoes and clothes. Miss those times 😢
When I watched the steaming meat and rice filled leaves, I could practically smell mi abuelo's tamales cooking! My grandpa made the best tamales. And they took FOREVER to prep and then cook. He only made them at Christmas and Easter. ❤
Chúc mừng năm mới from New Zealand!!! Thanks for posting about Vietnamese culture, Uyen. Seeing your content makes my heart full for you, and for Vietnam❤
Starfruit is my absolute favorite. Thank you for showing your preparations for the New Year, I love seeing how people around the world celebrate their holidays. Those decorations you bought were beautiful.
The energy, love and joy put in to a celebration out of tradition is so beautiful. I am Canadian with British Ancestry. I feel that we have lost so many of our traditions. I find that sad. watching Uyen, her family and all the people in Vietnam celebrate with such dedication and joy for tradition is heart warming. Thank you for sharing!! Happy New Year!!
Same, here. I'm fortunate to still have my mum, her older brother and older sister (my mum is the baby at 92) but with every older generation that dies, we lose more of our British/Anglo-Saxon traditions. Inevitable, of course, and I look forward to new Canadians sharing their particular country's traditions both to help fill the void and to add to ours.
@@jenniferryersejones9876 I live in an area of western Canada that has a high population of East Indians. I have been honored to be invited to weddings and other celebrations. I always felt so welcomed. The dedication to keeping traditions alive are so important to every culture. I truly appreciate people who do this.
@@samiam74 How lovely for you! My cousin married a man from Kerala, India about 57 years ago. His family was one of the first to convert to Catholicism hundreds of years ago, so he didn't grow up with many of the region's cultural traditions. Very knowledgeable about them, however, and always interesting to talk to .
I really enjoy when you talk about cultural things, Uyen. I grew up in a university community where we had people from all over the world and I think it’s fascinating to learn about how other people do things.
I had the blessing of tasting the Vietnamese New Year cake in my church. Some Vietnamese locals made them for the special occasion when we celebrated special mass for Lunar New Year. It was very delicious indeed.
I was laughing when I watched the part where you noticed that your dad hung the fan upside down :D I'm glad your mom got to get pampered for the New Year
I found this very interesting. This, obviously, a very important holiday for you. Thank you for given us an insight to your native land. May you and your family be blessed this coming year.
I remember last Tet when you showed us how she prepares the leaves! That was such a long process and then to continue by making the filling starting at 4am! What a labor intensive dish-but the wonderful thing Uyen, is that work is all done by your mom with the deepest love for her family! Spring rolls are my favorite any time of the year!
I love this kind of videos since I get to learn more about other cultures ♥ In my country we don't celebrate Lunar New Year but I love everything about it, from the celebrations to the respect for your ancestors. Happy Lunar New Year!😄
🌳🍊🌻 Love how many fruits you all grow yourself in your parents’ beautiful garden that the patio overlooks! 💚 And the rooster is excited for New Year too haha 🎶🐔🎶
Oooh the fish is soooo pretty. 🥰 Thank you for sharing your traditions. I think a great part of being an auntie is cooking for THEM, but totally agree with them doing the dishes. Lol.😂
I absolutely love your videos and learning about Vietnamese culture from you and your family! Thank you so much for sharing, because it’s not just entertaining to watch but also very educational. Vietnam should award you as an official cultural ambassador of your country.
Loved the decorations! In Australia, part of a multicultural family, I give the nieces/nephews their lunar new year lucky money so they can still have a taste of those traditions and it gives them something to brag about to friends 😄
Thank you and your family for showing us the traditions of Lunar New Year celebration in your home. It's very pretty and welcoming. Now I want some spring rolls today. I love them, too.😊 To celebrate with you, I'm going to find some today at a restaurant. Happy Lunar New Year!
It's amazing how special everyone finds it, the closest thing I've been is Hogmanay in Edinburgh and that felt like a big thing - but that's nothing compared to how much of an occasion you guys make of a new year. I'm in awe and kind of sad that England doesn't do anything as good. We just get drunk in a pub and try not to get in a fight that night.
I really love these videos!!! Honestly anything you make about your culture or the cultures of the places you visit are always so interesting! I hope to see even more!
New clothes we looked excited for at Easter and Christmas we got new pajamas and possibly a new winter coat. Winter coats were very expensive so that would be my only gift if I chose that.🎉
I'm a quarter of Vietnamese and 3rd quarter Thai, and now living in Thailand, the meals that you prepare for the holiday make me miss my family so much, i didn't go this year but Happy New Year to you!
Thank you for taking us along! The decorations are beautiful. And I would love to taste the fruits 😊 This year I also decorated for Lunar New Year - even living in Germany.
Your tenderness with your mom brings tears to my eyes. And your joy in your traditions, and in sharing them, is endearing. Thank you for sharing with us, happy new year, and I hope you get to enjoy many wonderful new years to come.
The trees with fruit look really fun but I can’t imagine how much chaos would ensue with my cats. 😆 And the raccoons and deer eat everything outside. 🥲 It’s cool to see all the different New Year decorations, the market looks amazing! 💖
Hahaha, I love how your dad hung the decoration with “Tet” / “New Year” upside down and then when you pointed it out, he just said “Looks good to me” 🤣 A typical dad!
This reminds me a lot of how people used to celebrate Easter in rural Austria. Cleaning the house, lot's of blooming flowers and trees, treats for tge children, colourful decorations and people come together to feast after lent.
Chúc mừng năm mới! 🥳Thank you for sharing this video :) I'm half Vietnamese and I've never been to Vietnam so it was very interesting to learn more about Têt and see the decorations ☺️ this year is also my year since my sign is the snake 🐍
Thank you for sharing your culture with us. I’ve enjoyed watching your videos, with your German boyfriend lol. The food looks delicious. Vietnamese is my favorite Asian food and I can’t get enough of it. Hope you have a wonderful new year. Your parents are lovely and have a beautiful home.
I loooove the fish decorations! I also liked learning about the shrine for celebrating your ancestors. The fruit bowl you and your mum were making was gorgeous! For our new year, here in Ontario, Canada, I gave my young neighbour girls Chinese decorations featuring the snake, as well as some treats from the "Far East" section of the store. I like to think I'm broadening their horizons by giving them samples/ideas of holiday traditions that are different to ours! I always give them books for special occasions, too and for 2025 it was a book called "A Whale of a Time: Funny Poems for Each Day of the Year". C'mon, now, your dad didn't really hang the Tet fan decoration wrong. 'Tet' is 'tet', backwards or forwards, lol! He knew what he was doing😂! Wishing you and your family a happy, healthy 2025!
Happy New Year. Thank you for sharing your traditions. Everything was lovely, especially the coi fish. They look very fancy. I love the idea of blossoming trees to celebrate the New Year. We use blossoming branches to decorate for Easter every Spring. When I was growing up, we looked forward to Easter because we would get our only new dress to wear on Easter Sunday. That is also when we got new shoes. It was often a struggle because we might grow too much before then and our feet would hurt in too small shoes until Easter came. Or the shoes would wear out and we’d put cardboard inside to cover the holes. With clothes it was easier. They came loose, with deep hems and seams to let out as you grew. Easter was also a time to make a lot of food that takes a lot of time to make. And we did a major Spring Cleaning so the house was perfect. People dressed in their nicest clothes and looked their best. So, although we do not celebrate New Year quite like the Vietnamese, we do practice some similar traditions at Easter. I love all your videos. Happy New Year again to you, your family, and German boyfriend
My home is very cold and gray right now, and the holidays are over so there are no more decorations. It is wonderful to see all the bright beautiful decorations from accross the world. Thank you for sharing!
My mothers family originated in Andalucia Spain. As a little girl of 4 years old i helped my grandmother and mother with the Christmas preparations. The cleaning, decoration clothes for the feast and preparing food....a lot of food! I still love to cook and decorate clothes that i find in second hand stores. Mostly with my daughter, she has been raised by me in the same tradition. We are a dutch family living in Rotterdam with a dash of Spanish culture. Maybe you could visit Rotterdam some day. At the base of our appartment we have a surf pool with very high waves in the middle of the city. From my balcony i can see the surfers!
Thank you for sharing your family's preparations for Tet and for explaining some of the customs. Very informative and interesting, and always delivered with a smile. 😊
Loved everything about this video! Thank you so much for sharing your traditions with us. I love learning about family and cultural traditions in other countries. Happy Tet! ❤
Wishing you all the best this year but usually you should be careful if it’s the same year as your. It’s consider to a rough year. Eating healthy carefully of your health, don’t travel too far and avoid doing anything dangerous. Those are the norm. I’m cow year so snake year is a bless for me and usually when the year is rough for you, we go burn some paper old clothes, clipping nails, hair and throw some egg to lessen the unfortunate.
@@chocochan2537 Thank you very much for the message and the kind wishes! I will take your well-intentioned advice to heart. Happy New Year to you too, dear ox/cow! 🙂
@ But the Year of the Snake only began yesterday. Until January 28th we still had the Year of the Dragon. Damn car! Trump doesn't really affect me that much. Over here, it's more the new FPÖ government under Kickl that occupies me. As for your cancer diagnosis, I'm very sorry. I wish you all the best and that you will receive good treatment. Lots of strength, and don't hang your head! 🫶🫶🫶
Happy New Year, Sweetie! I am celebrating lunar new year here in Denmark as a half Inuit from Greenland! I made my mother's grave really pretty with a candle, flowers, a wreath, and pheasant feathers. K think it looks really beautiful and elegant! We had a kind of burger with paddies made out of red beans, and there was pink sauerkraut (I added some red cabbage, and when it's done fermenting, it's pink! Very pretty! I made cinnamon rolls for dessert; in Danish, they are called cinnamon snails ,but today they are cinnamon snakes! 😆 I have been wearing red all day, including my mother's coral necklace. I don't have any rubies, so corals it was! I hang up the red paper star in the window that we also use for Christmas, so it's a nice warm light. The flowers are blue hyacinths, they smell really nice, and some big green branches fro. the garden. I don't know what they are called, not even in Danish, but they are big and look lush. I made a paper snake to hang in the window facing the street. It's west, and having green in the west was auspicious. It would call luck and ward off unluck. I have a big , red lacquer plate near the flowers, a collection of polished gemstones in different colours. Red for me (carnelian, my favourite) Green jade for my (twin) brothers, purple amethyst for my father, and I put a red ,banded agate on my mother's grave too. There are lit candles and lots of snacks. I will remember pumpkin and sunflower seeds in their shells next year! I will also see if there are any round chrysanthemums, but here in Denmark, we kinda only have them in the autumn. I will take some plum tree branches and see if I can make them bloom next year! I think we should adopt much more Vietnamese style Lunar New Year here in Denmark too! I'm kinda Protestant and my mother was a very kind, openhearted, and openminded Christian lady, so she embraced lunar new year the year we had an exchange student from Hong Kong - and I still celebrate it 27 years after! Happy New Year for you and your Vietnamese and for your German family with lots of love from Denmark ❤
As a Vietnamese, let me tell you. Our new year culture is mostly based on Chinese New Year culture like what you see those red decorations at 5:35 and 6:40. We Vietnamese didn't have that kind of things in the past, but since we have watched a lot of Chinese movies, exposed to Chinese culture, and have more contacts with a lot of Chinese people especially in the last 40 years, we have gradually followed the Chinese way of celebrating Chinese culture because we really love Chinese culture. That is why many people see so much similarity between our vietnamese culture and Chinese culture.
@3quevndog873 Well, as a Dane, I can tell you that our Christmas is very much based on German Christmas, but nevertheless, there's a distinct set of traditions that are very Danish. And comparing how Uyen and her family go about the celebration, I can tell you that it is distinctly different from how it is celebrated not only in Hong Kong ,but also the hugely varied ways it's celebrated in what is now known as Mainland China. Traditions change, I am a great fan of that. We can pick and choose, so of course it is a matter of fashions. What I like about this version is how fried it seems from the endless layers of superstitions based on the myriad of oddities surrounding the Chinese writing system. It seems much more free and about having a good time! I do like that! And the new year's trees are absolutely wonderful! I am very happy to take my clues from Vietnam and Japan, who, of course, fall within the cultural region known as the sinosphere, but seen from abroad look rather distinct from how it is celebrated in Beijing 🤷♂️ lots of love from Denmark 💚
Thank you for sharing your culture 🙂 I love how beautifully wrapped the new years cakes were! I'm from the Netherlands and our new years food is 'oliebollen'. Fried dough balls with raisins and powdered sugar :)
After reading some of these comments, I’m now really interested to understand why Persian new year celebrations/traditions are so similar in a lot of ways to Vietnamese celebrations/traditions. Just fascinating ❤ Happy Luna New Year to you and your family.
Happy New Year. I much prefer celebrating Tết. There is a lot to do but it's all so much fun (unless you have to cram it all into 3 days!). I love the decorations. That market was wonderful, I would love to shop there.
Hallo Uyen, ich wünsche dir und deiner Familie ein gesegnetes, gesundes und glückliches Jahr der Schlange! Für uns Deutsche ist es toll zu sehen, dass das neue Jahr in Vietnam so viel mit Familie zu tun hat. Ich hoffe ihr hattet viel Spaß. Übrigens: Das rote Ào dái, das du auf dem Thumbnail trägst, ist wunderschön und du siehst einfach toll darin aus. Eine echte Schönheit. ❤😊 Dir persönlich wünsche ich, dass du im neuen Jahr deine Deutschkenntnisse weiter verbessern kannst und dass ihr beide - dein Herzensmann und du - eine wunderschöne Hochzeit feiern könnt. 🎉❤ Wir sind alle schon ganz gespannt auf dein Hochzeitskleid...😊
I've been watching your content for years now, I'm french and multicultural as well, and I truly wish you all the best for this new year, you really deserve it ! it just feels like you're a friend ❤
I am also from France and same I love your content and this one was extremely well put together and very explicitly done. Hope your new year was fun and meaningful as always. Great that you were able to be with your family for this wonderful event. ❤️ thanks for sharing 👍🏻
Thanks for sharing! It's nice to learn about other cultures. I have colleagues who celebrate the New Year so it's great for me to share their holiday in a way.
Lovely to see that your new year centres around family and friends. Something I feel we have lost here in Ireland. I remember my mother making Christmas pudding in September and the cake in September. Then before December the whole house got a good cleaning. We had visitors almost every evening, now no one calls to see anyone without an appointment it’s sad.
How are you celebrating New Year? Thank you for all the kind wishes!!
I’m going to the temple. I went to my grandma’s house for food like Banh Chung for lunar new year ave. Back to her house later for more Banh Chung.
About d same way but not so fancy. I've tons of food though because of offering to ancestors 🎉 happy new year uyen
Wishing you a joyous new year, Uyen and family!!! I’m celebrating by hoping to make some tteok mandu guk for dinner later ❤
New years happened so wdym by that
Tomorrow I am starting a new job, today I am resting. I made wonton and cabbage soup, so I can have a full purse and lots of money this year to help my boyfriend feel like he doesn’t have to be working such long days.
I'm Persian and it's really interesting how similar our new year's cultures are like buying new piece of clothing, having packed beauty salons, cleaning the house from top to bottom, visiting each other back and forth, giving money to children, eating nuts including what you mentioned. Food is also important for our new year day and fish is a common one.
That is indeed super interesting. I didn't know that, thank you for sharing it with us!
My husband is Persian and I noticed many similarities although the food is pretty different. ❤❤
In The South in the US, we clean right before New Year's Day, because we believe that if you sweep on New Year's Day you are sweeping the good luck out of the door. We eat black-eyed peas, collard greens, and corn bread because the collard greens represent paper money (green backs), the black-eyed peas represent wishes (one wish for every pea consumed), and the yellow corn bread represents gold.
Thats cool!!!
I mean, doesn't everyone clean their house, cook tons of food, wash up, and put on new pretty/new clothes before the New Year? I thought that's universal. 😅 We do the exact same things (I'm from Ukraine living in Bulgaria, so we celebrate in a post USSR style). I can't imagine people not cleaning their house and cooking for 100 people. 😃 I think the only difference for us is that we buy presents because giving money is considered as not caring for the other enough because you 1) didn't pay attention to what the receiver would like to get, and 2) you didn't go out of your way to find it and wrap it up nicely. So overall, giving money is for the lazy bums who are not your real friends/family. New Years is THE biggest family holiday for us (most post Soviet countries), not Christmas. 👨👩👧👦 However, we also exchange presents with friends, not only family. I wouldn't mind receiving money now that I'm older, but in Vietnam, I guess I'd be the one giving 😂
I love how respectful you continue to be of your family's privacy. Strange to say, but seeing those blurred faces warms my heart every time.
This! I also love to hear them speak Vietnamese
As a Vietnamese American, I'm so proud that you represent our culture so well and with such positivity. Thank you. Chúc mừng năm mới!
I can’t believe how much similarity there was between Persian /iranian new year and Vietnamese , cleaning the house, buying new cloth, giving money to children , having sunflower seeds. Persians also read poetry ,visit relatives and get visited back, while at each others home snack on nuts and also sunflower seeds with sweets and tea . Loved it !
As a Vietnamese, let me tell you. Our new year culture is mostly based on Chinese New Year culture like what you see those red decorations at 5:35 and 6:40, cleaning houses, get new clothes, etc. We Vietnamese didn't have that kind of things in the past, but since we have watched a lot of Chinese movies, exposed to Chinese culture, and have more contacts with a lot of Chinese people especially in the last 40 years, we have gradually followed the Chinese way of celebrating Chinese culture because we really love Chinese culture. That is why many people see so much similarity between our vietnamese culture and Chinese culture.
@@3quevndog873 1/10 rage bait
That's because everyone in the whole world does this. The difference is the types of decorations, food, clothing and gifts. Everyone in the comments is saying the same thing, because everyone does the same thing.
@@3quevndog873 What are you saying bro? If you don't even know your root, then don't call yourself Vietnamese.
@@MissLucy-u1r As a German, I disagree.
I've never heard of any similar traditions in Germany.
Giving away money for luck is not a concept here, you don't clean your house for new years (instead we do big spring cleaning to prepare for the summer), we don't have any customs where people visit each others houses (you might celebrate at someone elses house together with that family, but there is no culture of visiting someone if they visited you), we use lots of sunflower oil and put it in bread but it's not that widespread to eat sunflower seeds, there is no culture of going to beauty saloons/preparing your looks for new years or any other cultural event, there is no culture of preparing food together besides maybe in the fall.
So, definitely not "the whole world".
I'm a viet kieu living in the Czech republic and my mom has never properly told me how Tet is celebrated, she never decorates or cleans the house before Tet. She would just give some food to the ancestors and a moment later we eat it. Otherwise we continue our day as usual - we work all day in our vietnamese grocery shop. Thank you so much for such educational videos. I love getting to know my own culture better
come back to the homeland habibi
What is habibi mean ? @@davidnguyen4707
sammie here, if you ever come to Munich let me know, we'll throw our own tet gathering:D
Thank you for sharing your family activities for the lunar New Year.
That was fascinating! Completely alien to an Irish person but very interesting. Thanks for taking the time to share it!
How do you celebrate New Year in your culture?
@@uyenninh Fireworks, go out to the pub and have drinks.
@@dianacfleming To be fair, going out to the pub is how we celebrate (almost) everything. 😅
@@uyenninhNew Years for the Anglosphere (US, UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, NZ) is very subdued. You drink, watch the ball drop, drink some more, and have the day off of work to nurse your hangover for January 1. You also have to kiss someone at exactly midnight. Then you make a New Year’s resolution that you will inevitably give up on in February.
As a Vietnamese, let me tell you. Our new year culture is mostly based on Chinese New Year culture like what you see those red decorations at 5:35 and 6:40. We Vietnamese didn't have that kind of things in the past, but since we have watched a lot of Chinese movies, exposed to Chinese culture, and have more contacts with a lot of Chinese people especially in the last 40 years, we have gradually followed the Chinese way of celebrating Chinese culture because we really love Chinese culture. That is why many people see so much similarity between our vietnamese culture and Chinese culture.
I LOVE those paper fish! So beautiful! I wish we Americans celebrated the New Year in such a fun and beautiful way.
My jaw dropped when she showed the fish!!! Soooo cool and pretty!!! 🐠
Nothing is stopping you from doing it.
@@653j521 Sure there is... about a thousand online Americans that will cry CULTURAL APPROPRIATIONNNNNNN
As a Vietnamese, let me tell you. Our new year culture is mostly based on Chinese New Year culture like what you see those red decorations at 5:35 and 6:40. We Vietnamese didn't have that kind of things in the past, but since we have watched a lot of Chinese movies, exposed to Chinese culture, and have more contacts with a lot of Chinese people especially in the last 40 years, we have gradually followed the Chinese way of celebrating Chinese culture because we really love Chinese culture. That is why many people see so much similarity between our vietnamese culture and Chinese culture.
Americans have no culture, so it's not surprising. Evil people with an evil government
your mom might not show it but she is overjoyed you are with her there to share preparing for the new year festivities! she is amazing! and shows so much love for her family by her hard work. thanks mom! i am a mom and grandma so i know😊😉
Yup. This mama knows we appreciate when our kids are there and involved. It's hard enough not seeing each other often so this is awesome!
Your Parents house is gorgeous ! The furniture is soooo beautiful, but just that garden and patio, incredible. Seriously a dream home! Happy New Year, to all of your family !
It is a beautiful home. I love all the greenery from the garden.
Happy Snake Year …
Your mom is really great .. cleaning such big house and make that cake (24 hours) … can’t believe …
Good health and good wealth to you and your family ..and good film in snake year .
the way Uyen said "you can do it baby" to the plum flower tree and gave it encouraging pats 😭😭❤❤ it filled my heart and soul
Those are exquisitely wrapped. I love seeing people take pride in their work like this. Kudos to your mom. Also, I'm surprised how much they cost. 30 EU for the fan in Europe or the states makes sense, I would have expected it to be much cheaper in Vietnam. Learn something new every day. Vietnam isn't as cheap as I thought.
Maybe Uyen did not haggle. Apparently, there is no marked prices at markets, they can charge what they want, it's up to you to bring the price down. I agree with you, 30 Euros is a lot of money for the locals, I would not expect to pay that much, even in Europe.
@@ChrissieSM Uyen is Vietnamese, of course she haggled. But now that Uyen is able to financial contribute, I think she likes to spoil her family and by the best handmade decorations she can. I think 30 euro is good for such beautiful decorations that I am sure Uyen takes great pride in them.
I am German and as you probably know, celebrating New Year is slightly more connected to friends, while Christmas is more with family, parents, grandparents, siblings, cousins and nieces and nephews. When I was young, fireworks were a major part of the party, which we by the way often call with the name of the Christian Saint Silvester (it's a Silvester-Party). However, there's some discussion recently about the fireworks, since blowing up some 300 million Euro just for fireworks in one night (that's what Germans spend for it annually) is considered no longer adequate, at least by some of us.
Please explain this lucky money to us. So children get it from their relatives? But what can you do with it? Can you actually "spend" it somewhere, somehow? How is the luck " cashed out"? I remember something about burning it?!
My second question is about the Lunar New Year/Tet: Is that related to the Chinese New Year? I work with a lot Chinese partners, and most of them are not available during Mid January for about two weeks. Do they celebrate the same thing?
@@linuxtag2009 I am Vietnamese-Chinese-Canadian, and I will like to answer your questions. The lucky money is usually given by married people to children or young(er) adults. Parents and/or grandparents also give them to their children/grandchildren, regardless of age. It is for the recipients to do as they wish (spend, or save).
The "burning" of the money she mentioned is fake money people burn for their dead ancestors during a ritual. In this ritual, various food are offered, as well as fake money, paper clothing, and other blings are burned for them. The dead ancestors ALWAYS gets to eat first, and once the ritual is done, family then consumed them. However, bowels of fruits and snacks are kept at the shrine until after the new year. The burning items are to make sure the ancestors have enough to spend and wear in the underworld, and, in return, they will bless the living with wealth, health and prosperity, etc.
Yes, Tet is the same as Chinese New Year. Different languages, hence different names, but same same.
@@Kien-d4k Thank you!
Thanks!
Im also a Vietnamese but live in Germany. It's really interesting to see how Vietnamese people celebrate new year in Vietnam! Thanks for sharing! Through your videos I can learn more about my culture. Chúc mừng năm mới ☆
This reminds me of our New year celebration in April. In South Asia we celebrate solar new year just like the lunar new year. Our New Year begins when the sun transitions from the house of Pisces to the house of Aries.
Cleaning every inch of our houses, preparing traditional sweets, going to temples, worshipping our elders, having meals with our relatives and friends. So much alike. We are having nearly a week for this new year celebration. Lots of love from Sri Lanka. ❤
As a Vietnamese, let me tell you. Our new year culture is mostly based on Chinese New Year culture like what you see those red decorations at 5:35 and 6:40. We Vietnamese didn't have that kind of things in the past, but since we have watched a lot of Chinese movies, exposed to Chinese culture, and have more contacts with a lot of Chinese people especially in the last 40 years, we have gradually followed the Chinese way of celebrating Chinese culture because we really love Chinese culture. That is why many people see so much similarity between our vietnamese culture and Chinese culture.
@3quevndog873 So nice. I saw similarities between lunar and solar new year celebrations. In this busy world, having these kinds of traditions are like a healing therapy and a glue to maintain family bonds.
@@umeshabandara3711 don't listen to that person's nonsense. Even thou China colonized Vietnam more than a thousand year in the past, there are some influence that we adapt, Vietnamese already celebrate Tet (or Lunar New Year) way before Chinese invaded us
@@umeshabandara3711they are speading false information, please don't listen to them. Our Tết is not based on the Chinese.
I left my country when I was little but watching your videos makes me miss the memories I did have of our new year before I left. I miss how everyone start preparing dishes so the air around our town changed to a sweet smell. I miss getting and giving new cloths every one. I miss the very long and labouring meals every the neighborhood moms would get together to make while us kids played late into the night. I miss being part of a community that all celebrated together.
This is such a beautiful way to honor your ancestors. The shrine is gorgeous. Happy New Year to you and yours.
As a Vietnamese, let me tell you. Our new year culture is mostly based on Chinese New Year culture like what you see those red decorations at 5:35 and 6:40. We Vietnamese didn't have that kind of things in the past, but since we have watched a lot of Chinese movies, exposed to Chinese culture, and have more contacts with a lot of Chinese people especially in the last 40 years, we have gradually followed the Chinese way of celebrating Chinese culture because we really love Chinese culture. That is why many people see so much similarity between our vietnamese culture and Chinese culture.
@@3quevndog873 Sorry, but based on your username, you are not entitled to represent all Vietnamese. Stop spreading misinformation.
Thank you for sharing with us! Vietnamese spring rolls have become one of my top 3 favorite foods 🤩
This is so beautiful. TY I always learn so much. Ty to your family as well. Dads are the same everywhere LOL looks good to me 😃
I'm mexican and this is giving me flashbacks of Christmas and new year's: cleaning, preparing food and tamales, more cleaning, getting snacks in abundance because we stay up all night, new hairstyles, new shoes and clothes. Miss those times 😢
When I watched the steaming meat and rice filled leaves, I could practically smell mi abuelo's tamales cooking! My grandpa made the best tamales. And they took FOREVER to prep and then cook. He only made them at Christmas and Easter. ❤
CHÚC MỪNG NĂM MỚI 🎉
i’m living in Vietnam too
love seeing everyone celebrate 😊
It's nice that your new year's trees aren't cut but still have their roots! 😊
Chúc mừng năm mới from New Zealand!!! Thanks for posting about Vietnamese culture, Uyen. Seeing your content makes my heart full for you, and for Vietnam❤
Який у вас гарний дім, і ще я в захваті від ринку декорацій, це дуже гарно, не схоже на наші традиції, тому це так цікаво! Дякую. Вітаю з новим роком!
I like how for the new years everyone buys a tree! 🌳
Starfruit is my absolute favorite. Thank you for showing your preparations for the New Year, I love seeing how people around the world celebrate their holidays. Those decorations you bought were beautiful.
The energy, love and joy put in to a celebration out of tradition is so beautiful. I am Canadian with British Ancestry. I feel that we have lost so many of our traditions. I find that sad. watching Uyen, her family and all the people in Vietnam celebrate with such dedication and joy for tradition is heart warming. Thank you for sharing!! Happy New Year!!
Same, here. I'm fortunate to still have my mum, her older brother and older sister (my mum is the baby at 92) but with every older generation that dies, we lose more of our British/Anglo-Saxon traditions. Inevitable, of course, and I look forward to new Canadians sharing their particular country's traditions both to help fill the void and to add to ours.
@@jenniferryersejones9876 I live in an area of western Canada that has a high population of East Indians. I have been honored to be invited to weddings and other celebrations. I always felt so welcomed. The dedication to keeping traditions alive are so important to every culture. I truly appreciate people who do this.
@@samiam74 How lovely for you! My cousin married a man from Kerala, India about 57 years ago. His family was one of the first to convert to Catholicism hundreds of years ago, so he didn't grow up with many of the region's cultural traditions. Very knowledgeable about them, however, and always interesting to talk to .
I really enjoy when you talk about cultural things, Uyen. I grew up in a university community where we had people from all over the world and I think it’s fascinating to learn about how other people do things.
I had the blessing of tasting the Vietnamese New Year cake in my church. Some Vietnamese locals made them for the special occasion when we celebrated special mass for Lunar New Year. It was very delicious indeed.
I was laughing when I watched the part where you noticed that your dad hung the fan upside down :D I'm glad your mom got to get pampered for the New Year
I don't know why but I can enjoy watching your content for hours! You are fun, down to earth and sweet.
I found this very interesting. This, obviously, a very important holiday for you. Thank you for given us an insight to your native land. May you and your family be blessed this coming year.
I remember last Tet when you showed us how she prepares the leaves! That was such a long process and then to continue by making the filling starting at 4am! What a labor intensive dish-but the wonderful thing Uyen, is that work is all done by your mom with the deepest love for her family! Spring rolls are my favorite any time of the year!
I love this kind of videos since I get to learn more about other cultures ♥
In my country we don't celebrate Lunar New Year but I love everything about it, from the celebrations to the respect for your ancestors.
Happy Lunar New Year!😄
🌳🍊🌻 Love how many fruits you all grow yourself in your parents’ beautiful garden that the patio overlooks! 💚
And the rooster is excited for New Year too haha
🎶🐔🎶
I love how you go above and beyond to keep your loved ones' privacy.
Happy New Year from Australia 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
Thank you for explaining the New Year to us.
Fascinating, cheers
Oooh the fish is soooo pretty. 🥰 Thank you for sharing your traditions. I think a great part of being an auntie is cooking for THEM, but totally agree with them doing the dishes. Lol.😂
I hope you and your family have a lovely Lunar New Year!!!
I absolutely love your videos and learning about Vietnamese culture from you and your family! Thank you so much for sharing, because it’s not just entertaining to watch but also very educational.
Vietnam should award you as an official cultural ambassador of your country.
It feels so good to see that you're so rooted to your tradition ♥️✨
Thank you to you and your family for sharing the New Year festivities and culture with us. It is all so beautiful and warms my heart to see it!
Loved the decorations!
In Australia, part of a multicultural family, I give the nieces/nephews their lunar new year lucky money so they can still have a taste of those traditions and it gives them something to brag about to friends 😄
Thank you Uyen for explaining your tradition! I love watching your videos!!❤
Thank you and your family for showing us the traditions of Lunar New Year celebration in your home. It's very pretty and welcoming. Now I want some spring rolls today. I love them, too.😊 To celebrate with you, I'm going to find some today at a restaurant. Happy Lunar New Year!
It's amazing how special everyone finds it, the closest thing I've been is Hogmanay in Edinburgh and that felt like a big thing - but that's nothing compared to how much of an occasion you guys make of a new year. I'm in awe and kind of sad that England doesn't do anything as good. We just get drunk in a pub and try not to get in a fight that night.
I really love these videos!!! Honestly anything you make about your culture or the cultures of the places you visit are always so interesting! I hope to see even more!
New clothes we looked excited for at Easter and Christmas we got new pajamas and possibly a new winter coat. Winter coats were very expensive so that would be my only gift if I chose that.🎉
We used to get new sandals at Easter to go with a new dress and we would wear them to Church xx
Really wonderful to see how you prepare decorate and enjoy your new year. 🤗
The big fish are absolutely beautiful!
I'm a quarter of Vietnamese and 3rd quarter Thai, and now living in Thailand, the meals that you prepare for the holiday make me miss my family so much, i didn't go this year but Happy New Year to you!
Thank you for taking us along! The decorations are beautiful. And I would love to taste the fruits 😊 This year I also decorated for Lunar New Year - even living in Germany.
Your tenderness with your mom brings tears to my eyes. And your joy in your traditions, and in sharing them, is endearing. Thank you for sharing with us, happy new year, and I hope you get to enjoy many wonderful new years to come.
The trees with fruit look really fun but I can’t imagine how much chaos would ensue with my cats. 😆 And the raccoons and deer eat everything outside. 🥲
It’s cool to see all the different New Year decorations, the market looks amazing! 💖
Hahaha, I love how your dad hung the decoration with “Tet” / “New Year” upside down and then when you pointed it out, he just said “Looks good to me” 🤣
A typical dad!
Thank you and always enjoy learning about Vietnamese culture ❤
This reminds me a lot of how people used to celebrate Easter in rural Austria. Cleaning the house, lot's of blooming flowers and trees, treats for tge children, colourful decorations and people come together to feast after lent.
Chúc mừng năm mới! 🥳Thank you for sharing this video :) I'm half Vietnamese and I've never been to Vietnam so it was very interesting to learn more about Têt and see the decorations ☺️ this year is also my year since my sign is the snake 🐍
Thank you for sharing how to prepare for the Linar New Year in Vietnam! I am glad you are having a nice time with your family ❤😊
I enjoy learning about your culture!! Thank you!!
Thank you for sharing your culture with us. I’ve enjoyed watching your videos, with your German boyfriend lol. The food looks delicious. Vietnamese is my favorite Asian food and I can’t get enough of it. Hope you have a wonderful new year. Your parents are lovely and have a beautiful home.
I like the thumbnail photo, happy new year❤
Thank you 🎀
I love the idea of showering off the dirt of the old year ❤
I loved the little snake decorations you looked at in the market. The ones you selected are beautiful too.
I loooove the fish decorations! I also liked learning about the shrine for celebrating your ancestors. The fruit bowl you and your mum were making was gorgeous! For our new year, here in Ontario, Canada, I gave my young neighbour girls Chinese decorations featuring the snake, as well as some treats from the "Far East" section of the store. I like to think I'm broadening their horizons by giving them samples/ideas of holiday traditions that are different to ours! I always give them books for special occasions, too and for 2025 it was a book called "A Whale of a Time: Funny Poems for Each Day of the Year". C'mon, now, your dad didn't really hang the Tet fan decoration wrong. 'Tet' is 'tet', backwards or forwards, lol! He knew what he was doing😂! Wishing you and your family a happy, healthy 2025!
As a Vietnamese, I look forward to this video every year now.
Happy New Year. Thank you for sharing your traditions. Everything was lovely, especially the coi fish. They look very fancy. I love the idea of blossoming trees to celebrate the New Year. We use blossoming branches to decorate for Easter every Spring. When I was growing up, we looked forward to Easter because we would get our only new dress to wear on Easter Sunday. That is also when we got new shoes. It was often a struggle because we might grow too much before then and our feet would hurt in too small shoes until Easter came. Or the shoes would wear out and we’d put cardboard inside to cover the holes. With clothes it was easier. They came loose, with deep hems and seams to let out as you grew. Easter was also a time to make a lot of food that takes a lot of time to make. And we did a major Spring Cleaning so the house was perfect. People dressed in their nicest clothes and looked their best. So, although we do not celebrate New Year quite like the Vietnamese, we do practice some similar traditions at Easter. I love all your videos. Happy New Year again to you, your family, and German boyfriend
My home is very cold and gray right now, and the holidays are over so there are no more decorations. It is wonderful to see all the bright beautiful decorations from accross the world. Thank you for sharing!
You are such a wonderful daughter Uyen! Love your personality!!
You were showing the fruit and i started drooling. Wow!❤❤
My mothers family originated in Andalucia Spain. As a little girl of 4 years old i helped my grandmother and mother with the Christmas preparations. The cleaning, decoration clothes for the feast and preparing food....a lot of food!
I still love to cook and decorate clothes that i find in second hand stores. Mostly with my daughter, she has been raised by me in the same tradition. We are a dutch family living in Rotterdam with a dash of Spanish culture.
Maybe you could visit Rotterdam some day. At the base of our appartment we have a surf pool with very high waves in the middle of the city. From my balcony i can see the surfers!
I love the paper fish… beautiful
Makes me miss new year in vietnam on my mom’s side :,)
Have the best new year, thank you for all the videos u make queen 🫶
Thank you so much for sharing your beautiful culture with us. You are a delight and joy to learn from. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜
I wasn’t ready for it to end! I really enjoyed this.
Thank you for sharing your family's preparations for Tet and for explaining some of the customs. Very informative and interesting, and always delivered with a smile. 😊
Loved everything about this video! Thank you so much for sharing your traditions with us. I love learning about family and cultural traditions in other countries. Happy Tet! ❤
I am a Snake (born 1977). This is gonna be my lucky year. At least I hope so. Happy New Year from Austria! 🤗
Wishing you all the best this year but usually you should be careful if it’s the same year as your. It’s consider to a rough year. Eating healthy carefully of your health, don’t travel too far and avoid doing anything dangerous. Those are the norm. I’m cow year so snake year is a bless for me and usually when the year is rough for you, we go burn some paper old clothes, clipping nails, hair and throw some egg to lessen the unfortunate.
I’m a snake too but this year so far has been awful. First Trump, then cancer, and then my car broke down.
@@chocochan2537 Thank you very much for the message and the kind wishes! I will take your well-intentioned advice to heart. Happy New Year to you too, dear ox/cow! 🙂
@ But the Year of the Snake only began yesterday. Until January 28th we still had the Year of the Dragon. Damn car! Trump doesn't really affect me that much. Over here, it's more the new FPÖ government under Kickl that occupies me. As for your cancer diagnosis, I'm very sorry. I wish you all the best and that you will receive good treatment. Lots of strength, and don't hang your head! 🫶🫶🫶
@@ferretyluv I'm sorry for these devastating things happening to you! Wishing the best for you, from Canada.
Happy New Year, Sweetie!
I am celebrating lunar new year here in Denmark as a half Inuit from Greenland! I made my mother's grave really pretty with a candle, flowers, a wreath, and pheasant feathers. K think it looks really beautiful and elegant!
We had a kind of burger with paddies made out of red beans, and there was pink sauerkraut (I added some red cabbage, and when it's done fermenting, it's pink! Very pretty! I made cinnamon rolls for dessert; in Danish, they are called cinnamon snails ,but today they are cinnamon snakes! 😆
I have been wearing red all day, including my mother's coral necklace. I don't have any rubies, so corals it was!
I hang up the red paper star in the window that we also use for Christmas, so it's a nice warm light. The flowers are blue hyacinths, they smell really nice, and some big green branches fro. the garden. I don't know what they are called, not even in Danish, but they are big and look lush.
I made a paper snake to hang in the window facing the street. It's west, and having green in the west was auspicious. It would call luck and ward off unluck.
I have a big , red lacquer plate near the flowers, a collection of polished gemstones in different colours. Red for me (carnelian, my favourite) Green jade for my (twin) brothers, purple amethyst for my father, and I put a red ,banded agate on my mother's grave too.
There are lit candles and lots of snacks. I will remember pumpkin and sunflower seeds in their shells next year! I will also see if there are any round chrysanthemums, but here in Denmark, we kinda only have them in the autumn.
I will take some plum tree branches and see if I can make them bloom next year! I think we should adopt much more Vietnamese style Lunar New Year here in Denmark too!
I'm kinda Protestant and my mother was a very kind, openhearted, and openminded Christian lady, so she embraced lunar new year the year we had an exchange student from Hong Kong - and I still celebrate it 27 years after!
Happy New Year for you and your Vietnamese and for your German family with lots of love from Denmark ❤
That all sounds lovely! Happy new year from Austria.
Happy New Year 🎉
You’re half Asian and half Greenlandic? Damn, you’re Mr. Worldwide.
As a Vietnamese, let me tell you. Our new year culture is mostly based on Chinese New Year culture like what you see those red decorations at 5:35 and 6:40. We Vietnamese didn't have that kind of things in the past, but since we have watched a lot of Chinese movies, exposed to Chinese culture, and have more contacts with a lot of Chinese people especially in the last 40 years, we have gradually followed the Chinese way of celebrating Chinese culture because we really love Chinese culture. That is why many people see so much similarity between our vietnamese culture and Chinese culture.
@3quevndog873 Well, as a Dane, I can tell you that our Christmas is very much based on German Christmas, but nevertheless, there's a distinct set of traditions that are very Danish. And comparing how Uyen and her family go about the celebration, I can tell you that it is distinctly different from how it is celebrated not only in Hong Kong ,but also the hugely varied ways it's celebrated in what is now known as Mainland China.
Traditions change, I am a great fan of that. We can pick and choose, so of course it is a matter of fashions. What I like about this version is how fried it seems from the endless layers of superstitions based on the myriad of oddities surrounding the Chinese writing system. It seems much more free and about having a good time! I do like that! And the new year's trees are absolutely wonderful!
I am very happy to take my clues from Vietnam and Japan, who, of course, fall within the cultural region known as the sinosphere, but seen from abroad look rather distinct from how it is celebrated in Beijing 🤷♂️ lots of love from Denmark 💚
You are so right about losing the thrill of new clothes on a holiday. Even in good fortune, there can be loss.
Thank you for sharing your culture 🙂 I love how beautifully wrapped the new years cakes were! I'm from the Netherlands and our new years food is 'oliebollen'. Fried dough balls with raisins and powdered sugar :)
After reading some of these comments, I’m now really interested to understand why Persian new year celebrations/traditions are so similar in a lot of ways to Vietnamese celebrations/traditions.
Just fascinating ❤
Happy Luna New Year to you and your family.
Happy New Year. I much prefer celebrating Tết. There is a lot to do but it's all so much fun (unless you have to cram it all into 3 days!). I love the decorations. That market was wonderful, I would love to shop there.
Hallo Uyen, ich wünsche dir und deiner Familie ein gesegnetes, gesundes und glückliches Jahr der Schlange! Für uns Deutsche ist es toll zu sehen, dass das neue Jahr in Vietnam so viel mit Familie zu tun hat. Ich hoffe ihr hattet viel Spaß.
Übrigens: Das rote Ào dái, das du auf dem Thumbnail trägst, ist wunderschön und du siehst einfach toll darin aus. Eine echte Schönheit. ❤😊
Dir persönlich wünsche ich, dass du im neuen Jahr deine Deutschkenntnisse weiter verbessern kannst und dass ihr beide - dein Herzensmann und du - eine wunderschöne Hochzeit feiern könnt. 🎉❤
Wir sind alle schon ganz gespannt auf dein Hochzeitskleid...😊
I've been watching your content for years now, I'm french and multicultural as well, and I truly wish you all the best for this new year, you really deserve it ! it just feels like you're a friend ❤
Thank you for the friendly comment
I am also from France and same I love your content and this one was extremely well put together and very explicitly done. Hope your new year was fun and meaningful as always. Great that you were able to be with your family for this wonderful event. ❤️ thanks for sharing 👍🏻
Hello Uyen Ninh and Uyen's Mom,
both of you look well, that makes me smile.
Happy holliday.
Greetings
Juy Juka
love the tradition of blooming trees, so delicate, so beautiful and full of new life.
I learned so much about lunar new year celebrating! Thank you for sharing, enjoy the festivities!
I now celebrate each Lunar New Year by listening to "Feliz Bottom Jeans", thanks to you, Uyen Ninh.
Like your culture. Your parents have a beautifull house.
Thank you for sharing the culture and customs of Lunar New Year celebrations in your home country. I found it very entertaining and informative.
Thanks for sharing! It's nice to learn about other cultures. I have colleagues who celebrate the New Year so it's great for me to share their holiday in a way.
Lovely to see that your new year centres around family and friends. Something I feel we have lost here in Ireland. I remember my mother making Christmas pudding in September and the cake in September. Then before December the whole house got a good cleaning. We had visitors almost every evening, now no one calls to see anyone without an appointment it’s sad.
That was a a wonderful taste of Vietnamese culture. Thanks so much for sharing!❤
Thank you for showing parts of your New Year celebrations with us. All I can see is ⛄️ ❄️, right now. lol.
I enjoyed learning about your Vietnamese New Year culture. Thanks for sharing.
The decorations were surprisingly expensive! But very pretty!
Love this! So educational and I love decorating for holidays so it's neat to see something different. That orange fish is so cute!