(Baonghean.vn) - These days, the people of Ngoc Lam and Thanh Son resettlement communes (Thanh Chuong district) are celebrating Tet (Lunar New Year) in joy and warmth.
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| During the Lunar New Year, families here often dedicate the most prominent corner of their home to setting up an altar, displaying a portrait of President Ho Chi Minh and the national flag. The photo shows the New Year's altar of a family in Noong village, Ngoc Lam commune. Photo: Huy Thu. |
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| The women are dressed more elegantly in full skirts, blouses, and headscarves. Photo: Huy Thu. |
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| After the Lunar New Year ceremony, everyone goes to wish their relatives and friends a happy new year… then, wealthier families will prepare a feast to invite guests to celebrate the New Year. Photo: Huy Thu. |
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| In the early days of the Lunar New Year, women in Ngoc Lam commune exchange best wishes. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| The Tet (Lunar New Year) feast of the Thai people still includes all the traditional dishes such as banh tet (sticky rice cake), chicken, dried beef, meatballs, etc. Photo: Huy Thu |
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| The elaborately prepared dish, made from ingredients such as fish or meat along with sticky rice, lemongrass, mắc khẻn (a type of spice), onions, and lộc thơm (a type of herb), wrapped in dong leaves, is a signature dish of the Thai people during Tet (Lunar New Year). Photo: Huy Thư. |
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| Tet, the Lunar New Year, is a time for family and friends to reunite, and for young men and women to enjoy themselves together over jars of rice wine. Photo: Huy Thu. |
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| While eating, people are free to dance to the music. In the photo: Mr. Luong Xuan Dieu and Mrs. Mac Thi Nguyen (Noong village) enthusiastically enjoy the free-style dances. |
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| As Tet (Lunar New Year) approaches, the villages in the resettlement areas become much livelier. After nearly a decade of moving to their new homes, the lives of the villagers have changed significantly. Tea gardens and wild boar farms are springing up more and more. The new spring arrives in these villages with many new hopes. Photo: Huy Thu. |
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