2023 Tết Nguyên Đán (Vietnamese Lunar New Year)
2023 Tết Nguyên Đán (Vietnamese Lunar New Year)
Save the date! The 2023 VHC Tết Nguyên Đán (Lunar New Year) celebration will be on Sunday, January 29, 2023.
VHC is proud to be in its fourth year of partnering with the New York Historical Society to bring back our annual Lunar New Year tradition to be in person this Tết Quý Mão 2023.
This year we invite you to celebrate this special day with us on January 29 with:
🔸 Lion dancing
🔸 Musical performances and fashion show featuring ao dai (Vietnamese traditional dress) collection
🔸 Lunar New Year games and activities including calligraphy, red pockets for children, fortune gifts for adults, card-making, etc.
🔸 New Year Tree (Hái Lộc Đầu Xuân)
🔸 Traditional food and beverages
🔸 Raffle
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⏰ January 29 - 1:00 to 3:30 PM
📍The New York Historical Society Museum
(170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024)
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Ticket Details:
🔸 Adults: $22
🔸 Students (all students 14 years old and above): $15*
🔸 Children (3-13 years old): $10 (3-13)
🔸 Children (2 years old and under): Free
🔸 Family pass: $50**
*Student identification must be presented for admission
**Family pass includes two adult tickets and two children/young adults (3-13 years old) at a discounted price. Worth up to $64.
All tickets purchased prior to the event come with a meal and beverage. Food and drink items will not be on sale at the museum.
For tickets purchased at the door, we cannot guarantee that a meal and beverage will be included - it will be on a first come, first served basis. Thank you for understanding.
Known as Tết Nguyên Đán in Vietnamese, the Lunar New Year celebrates the spring equinox and the beginning of a new lunar calendar year.
2020 VHC Lunar New Year Celebration, New-York Historical Society
Photography: Hiệp Vũ
ABOUT THE VIETNAMESE LUNAR NEW YEAR
The Lunar New Year (Tết Nguyên Đán, often shortened to Tết) is the biggest national holiday in Vietnam and celebrates the arrival of spring and the first day of the new lunar year. Vietnamese citizens take off work and school for 1-2 weeks and participate in a variety of special activities, such as preparing bánh chưng and bánh dày - two traditional dishes steeped in legend - and paying respects to ancestors, visiting neighbors with gifts and well-wishes, giving lucky money (lì xì), and beginning new endeavors. Peach and apricot trees are decorated with lucky trinkets and ornaments, homes are given a thorough spring cleaning, and outstanding debts are paid off. To ring in the new year, fireworks will go off at midnight, and there will often be parades, performances, and fun activities in the city center for community members to enjoy.
