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The festival which best epitomises Vietnam's cultural identity is the Lunar New Year or Tet, with a lot of meaningful customs and traditional special foods.

An exhibition featuring large-sized paintings on Vietnam’s landscapes, people and culture opened on February 12 in a pedestrian zone in Budapest, Hungary.

Banh gio is favoured as a breakfast dish and as an after-school supper dish for children.

Passing down through generations and continued with equal enthusiasm today, “Xong dat”, a Tet tradition in Vietnam, has always been associated with hopes for a fruitful year ahead.

Ancestor worship, an ancient Vietnamese tradition, is a ritual practice paying tribute to deceased family members and reminding people of their roots.

A series of annual cultural activities to welcome spring by various ethnic minority groups will be held throughout February at the Vietnam National Village for Ethnic Culture and Tourism.

Lunar New Year celebrations have been organised worldwide to help Vietnamese people living abroad enjoy a warm and familiar traditional New Year festival.

The Thang Long royal citadel in the capital city of Hanoi has been glowing with the atmosphere of traditional Lunar New Year from the ancient time to welcome the Year of the Buffalo is underway at the site.

An exhibition on King Gia Long, the first king of the Nguyen Dynasty, opened at Long An Palace of the Hue Royal Antiquities Museum on January 31.

New Year flower market is not only a place to trade Tet flowers but also an attractive sightseeing place and a typical cultural space of Vietnamese people every spring.

An art exhibition themed “Spring of the nation” will be organised at the Vietnam National Fine Art Museum in Hanoi to celebrate the 13th National Party Congress and the upcoming Lunar New Year.

“Con duong co Mat Troi”, a film by the People's Army Cinema, has been chosen to be introduced at a national film screening week to celebrate the 13th National Party Congress and the Lunar New Year festival.