Lunar New Year is coming, do you know all the vocabulary about food and festivals of Tet?
If not, let's learn togetherVocabulary related to Lunar New Yearyou!
Pocket your Lunar New Year vocabulary set right away. Below you can use it right away when Tet comes.
Lunar/ Lunisolar calendar
New Year’s Eve
Visit relatives and friends
Superstitious
Decorate the house
Lunar New Year
Before New Year’s Eve
New Year’s wishes: Happy New Year to each other
Go to pagoda to pray: Go to the temple to pray for blessings
Expel evil: Drive away evil spirits
Worship the ancestors
Dress up
Sweep the floor
Play cards
Flower market
To return to hometown
To first foot
Banquet: party/feast
Betel: betel and areca
Coconut
Chung Cake/ Square glutinous rice cake
Dried bamboo shoots
Dried candied fruits
Fatty pork
Five – fruit tray
Jellied meat
Lean pork paste
Mango
Mung beans
Pawpaw (papaya)
Pickled onion
Pickled small leeks
Pig trotters stewed with dried bamboo shoots: Bamboo shoot soup stewed with pork leg
Pig trotters
Roasted watermelon seeds
Sticky rice
Watermelon
Altar
Apricot blossom
Calligraphy pictures
Chrysanthemum
Firecrackers
Fireworks
First caller: People storm the ground
Flowers: Types of flowers/plants
Incense
Kumquat tree
Lucky Money
Marigold
Orchid
Paperwhite
Parallel
Peach blossom
Red Envelope: Lucky money envelope
Ritual
Taboo
The kitchen god
The New Year tree
Above is some English vocabulary about Lunar New YearHope it will be useful for you in the upcoming Tet holiday. Remember to memorize and don't forget to practice with your friends and relatives! Wish you all good study!