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The Tet flower market takes place on the sidewalks parallel to the bustling streets filled with people shopping for the New Year.
The Tet holiday of yesteryear is rich in memories, filled with the pungent smell of firecrackers, the aroma of watermelon, pickled onions, braised meat, sticky rice cakes, the fragrance of coriander leaves on the 30th day of the lunar month, the scent of chrysanthemums, and the fragrant incense on the altar. Nowadays, some things have changed with time; the sleepless nights spent tending to the steaming pot of sticky rice cakes have lessened somewhat, and the sound of firecrackers no longer reverberates throughout the neighborhoods...
Let's take a journey back in time and relive the atmosphere of Tet (Vietnamese Lunar New Year) of yesteryear through the following series of photos.
Trading activity is bustling in the flower market area of the old town.
The Tet flower market takes place on the sidewalks parallel to the bustling streets filled with people shopping for the New Year.
Peach vendors, street hawkers, motorbikes, bicycles, and pedestrians mingle together on the narrow street.
A man holds a peach blossom branch he just bought to take home in preparation for the Lunar New Year.
The mother and daughter were riding along the road, with stalls selling balloons in the distance.
The photo shows a family carrying a kumquat tree home, passing through Trang Tien Street in Hanoi.
The stalls selling banh chung (Vietnamese sticky rice cake) and gio lua (Vietnamese pork sausage) are crowded with buyers and sellers before Tet. The atmosphere is very cheerful.
Those bright green glutinous rice cakes, wrapped in banana leaves, were sold for 10,000 dong each at that time.
In front of Quan Su Pagoda on New Year's Day: a bustling crowd of people passing by and visiting the pagoda.
Traditional Tet jam.
For the children of that time, "Tet was firecrackers, and firecrackers were Tet."
Firecracker debris covered the entire walkway.
A simple Tet celebration at home: enjoying tea, eating Tet sweets, and having conversations to start the new year.
The couple were pounding and wrapping pork sausage in preparation for Tet (Lunar New Year). Radiant smiles bloomed on their faces.
The Tet market scene is filled with all kinds of decorative items: red lanterns, tinsel garlands, red envelopes, votive paper money, etc.
A local resident attends a New Year's ceremony at Quan Thanh Temple, Tay Ho District, Hanoi.
Nga Nguyen
- Source: Compilation
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