"I want to continue that tradition." Wanyu Zhang, senior marketing and international business manager "My dad's older sister makes sure we always meet together every month," she says. For her, the Lunar New Year feels like any other regularly scheduled family gathering, albeit slightly more festive. That side of Hoang's family has always been close, and even during the pandemic they made efforts to stay in touch. Kathleen Hoang, left, and her family celebrate the Lunar New Year in Fort Belvoir, Va., in 2020. It wasn't until my first Lunar New Year alone in college that I came to appreciate how grounding it can be to spend the first day of the year focused on joy and family. Tet was a reflective holiday focused on mindfulness and setting ourselves up for another successful year. Leading up to the new year, we would clean the house up and down and spend days making banh chung, a sticky rice cake filled with pork belly and mung bean. We would receive red envelopes, called li xi, filled with "lucky" money, but only after giving well wishes to our elders. The whole family would take the day off and we would wear our traditional ao dai to go visit my grandparents. Nevertheless, my parents made sure we spent our time wisely.
Here in the U.S., I've only celebrated each Lunar New Year - or Tet, in Vietnamese - for one day each year, as it's not a federally recognized holiday. You'll get unique NPR stories in your inbox every weekday. Subscribe here so you don't miss the next one. This essay first appeared in the NPR Daily Newsletter. Celebrants gather to see parades and perform various rites and rituals with elders in order to guarantee a lucky year ahead. Certain foods are eaten only at this time of year, and often traditional costumes are worn. The holiday prompts what is considered one of the world's largest annual human migrations as hundreds of millions of people travel back to their hometowns to spend the festivities, which last up to two weeks, with family. It's one of the most important festivals in many Asian countries, including Vietnam, China, Korea, Mongolia as well as the Asian diaspora. 1 marks the beginning of the Lunar New Year. Luckily, it's around this time that I get a second chance to reflect on my year and set the tone for a new one by celebrating the Lunar New Year. Unfortunately, many people around the world also abandon their resolutions by February.
Resolutions are made to eat better, become healthier or take control of finances. 1 is an opportunity to start fresh for many people around the world. Chinese New Year in Edinburgh has become one of the largest celebrations of its kind in Scotland. Members of the Scottish Chinese community take part in Edinburgh Chinese New Year Festival on Monday in Scotland.
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